New Visions for Canadian Business

New Visions for Canadian Business
Author: Alan M. Rugman
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Total Pages: 47
Release: 1993-06
Genre:
ISBN: 1568066910

A study of Canadian competitiveness, which has been declining. Includes Canada's business scorecard; doing business, manufacturing, and services in the global economy; strategies for Canada's international competitiveness; and recommendations for a competitive future. Graphs. Commissioned by Kodak Canada Inc.

OECD Economic Surveys: Canada 2016

OECD Economic Surveys: Canada 2016
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2016-06-13
Genre:
ISBN: 9264257799

This 2016 OECD Economic Survey of the Canada examines recent economic developments, policies and prospects. The special chapters cover: Network sector competition; Small business dynamism.

Provincial Trade Wars

Provincial Trade Wars
Author: K. Filip Palda
Publisher:
Total Pages: 200
Release: 1994
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

This book explains why Canadians must rid themselves of interprovincial trade barriers. Canada's provinces do almost as much trade with each other as they do with the rest of the world. But trade between the provinces is harder than with foreign countries. We trouble our own house with an amazing variety of barriers: professionals and tradespeople cannot move freely and practice where they wish, regulation makes it hard for investments to flow to where they are most needed, provincial governments give contracts to local firms even though out-of-province firms can do the job at a lower cost, Ottawa pays the most generous UI to regions with the highest unemployment and thereby encourages people to stay in parts of the country with little promise. The effects of such barriers on the economy are difficult to measure, which may be the reason that little has been done about them. But Canadians cannot afford to ignore their costs. The European Community is very close to the goal of ensuring free trade among its members. Unless we unlock our potential we may fall behind other countries and communities that have recognized the importance of internal as well as external free trade.

Knocking on the Back Door

Knocking on the Back Door
Author: Institute for Research on Public Policy
Publisher: IRPP
Total Pages: 206
Release: 1987
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780886450588

The papers in this volume offer a wide range of perspectives on the Canada-US free trade debate, and on Canada-US trade relations generally. Includes revised versions of papers delivered at a conference organized and sponsored by Carleton University's School of Administration in the fall of 1986. The papers focus on issues of process and politics, including the problems of adjusting to trade liberalization, sovereignty, the negotiating process and the role of social science and many other topics such as the past behaviour of business people adapting to previous trade liberalization, the nature of the actual negotiations, and the role of the provinces in these negotiations.

Trade Policy in Multilevel Government

Trade Policy in Multilevel Government
Author: Christian Freudlsperger
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2020-04-11
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0192598171

Trade Policy in Multilevel Government investigates how multilevel polities organize openness in a globalizing political and economic environment. In recent years, the multilevel politics of trade caught a broader public's attention, not least due to the Wallonian regional parliament's initial rejection of the EU-Canada trade deal in 2016. In all multilevel polities, competencies held by states and regions have increasingly become the subject of international rule-setting. This is particularly so in the field of trade which has progressively targeted so-called 'behind the border' regulatory barriers. In their reaction to this 'deep trade' agenda, constituent units in different multilevel polities have shown widely varying degrees of openness to liberalizing their markets. Why is that? This book argues that domestic institutions and procedures of intergovernmental relations are the decisive factor. Countering a widely-held belief among practitioners and analysts of trade policy that involving subcentral actors complicates trade negotiations, it demonstrates that the more voice a multilevel polity affords its constituent units in trade policy-making, the less the latter have an incentive to eventually exit from emerging trade deals. While in shared rule systems constituent unit governments are directly represented along the entirety of the policy cycle, in self-rule systems territorial representation is achieved merely indirectly. Shared rule systems are hence more effective than self-rule systems in organizing openness to trade. The book tests its theory's explanatory power on the understudied case of international procurement liberalization in extensive studies of three systems of multilevel government: Canada, the European Union, and the United States.

Canada

Canada
Author: Donald G. Lenihan
Publisher: IRPP
Total Pages: 188
Release: 1994
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780886451677

The clearest lesson of the debate over the 1992 Charlottetown Accord is that Canadians are divided in their vision of the country. This book looks at the issue and examines how the political philosophy of liberalism - especially as incorporated into "pan-Canadianism" under former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau - contrasts and conflicts with the more federalist aspirations of moderate Quebec nationalists, western regionalists and Aboriginal peoples.

Canada's Information Revolution

Canada's Information Revolution
Author: Conference on Information Technology: Globalization, Diffusion, Innovation and Retraining (1989 : Toronto, Ont.)
Publisher: IRPP
Total Pages: 200
Release: 1991
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9780886451257

Market Rules

Market Rules
Author: Douglas Mitchell Brown
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2002
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0773522867

Federalism is about dividing and sharing government, often in complex ways that involve some tasks being done jointly. Are federal systems capable of effective joint policy-making? Is this possible in the fast-moving context of globalization? In Market Rules Douglas Brown examines these questions through a comparative study of Australia and Canada, looking at recent major reforms to the economic union in the two federations and comparing them with the evolving European Union (EU).