Fixing Canadian Democracy
Author | : Fraser Institute (Vancouver, B.C.) |
Publisher | : The Fraser Institute |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Canada |
ISBN | : 088975201X |
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Author | : Fraser Institute (Vancouver, B.C.) |
Publisher | : The Fraser Institute |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Canada |
ISBN | : 088975201X |
Author | : Donald J. Savoie |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2019-09-02 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0228000416 |
Canada's representative democracy is confronting important challenges. At the top of the list is the growing inability of the national government to perform its most important roles: namely mapping out collective actions that resonate in all regions as well as enforcing these measures. Others include Parliament's failure to carry out important responsibilities, an activist judiciary, incessant calls for greater transparency, the media's rapidly changing role, and a federal government bureaucracy that has lost both its way and its standing. Arguing that Canadians must reconsider the origins of their country in order to understand why change is difficult and why they continue to embrace regional identities, Democracy in Canada explains how Canada's national institutions were shaped by British historical experiences, and why there was little effort to bring Canadian realities into the mix. As a result, the scope and size of government and Canadian federalism have taken on new forms largely outside the Constitution. Parliament and now even Cabinet have been pushed aside so that policy makers can design and manage the modern state. This also accounts for the average citizen's belief that national institutions cater to economic elites, to these institutions' own members, and to interest groups at citizens' own expense. A masterwork analysis, Democracy in Canada investigates the forces shaping the workings of Canadian federalism and the country's national political and bureaucratic institutions.
Author | : Kim Richard Nossal |
Publisher | : Dundurn |
Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 2016-12-10 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1459736761 |
Defence procurement in Canada is a mess, with hundreds of millions of dollars being routinely wasted, despite which the Canadian Armed Forces is woefully underequipped and lacking crucial capacity. Charlie Foxtrot shows why past governments failed so spectacularly to efficiently equip and manage the CAF, and how to change that.
Author | : John Ralston Saul |
Publisher | : Penguin Canada |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 2009-09-22 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0143174800 |
In 1999, John Ralston Saul began predicting that globalism would collapse. In 2005, he laid out this scenario in The Collapse of Globalism: and the Reinvention of the World Now he has enlarged the book, showing how today's crisis came about and suggesting what to do next. In this new edition, Saul describes the current financial crisis as a mere boil to be lanced. The far more serious problem is that the West—driven by most of its economists, managers, consultants, and columnists—remains stuck on outdated ideas of growth, wealth creation, and trade expansion. They are still trying to limit the debate to a narrow choice between protectionism and free trade and are concentrated on old-fashioned stimulation. Public policy has been dominated by the people who created this crisis. Saul envisions a new sort of wealth creation and growth, and in place of reaction, advocates new forms of action.
Author | : Bruce Little |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 417 |
Release | : 2008-01-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0802098746 |
Bruce Little explains the CPP overhaul and shows why it stands as one of Canada's most significant public policy success stories, in part because it demanded an almost unparalleled degree of federal-provincial co-operation.
Author | : Ryan Meili |
Publisher | : Purich Publishing |
Total Pages | : 145 |
Release | : 2012-04-16 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 1895830672 |
Income, education, employment, housing, the wider environment, and social supports; far more than the actions of physicians, nurses, and other health care providers, it is these conditions that make the greatest difference in our health. Drawing on his experiences as a family physician in the inner city of Saskatoon, Mozambique, and rural Saskatchewan, Dr. Ryan Meili uses scholarship and patient stories to explore health determinants and democratic reforms that could create a truly healthy society. By synthesizing diverse ideas into a plan for action based on the lived experiences of practitioners and patients, A Healthy Society breaks important ground in the renewal of politics toward the goal of better lives for all Canadians.
Author | : Carol Anderson |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2021-06-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1635574269 |
From the New York Times bestselling author of White Rage, an unflinching, critical new look at the Second Amendment and how it has been engineered to deny the rights of African Americans since its inception. In The Second, historian and award-winning, bestselling author of White Rage Carol Anderson powerfully illuminates the history and impact of the Second Amendment, how it was designed, and how it has consistently been constructed to keep African Americans powerless and vulnerable. The Second is neither a “pro-gun” nor an “anti-gun” book; the lens is the citizenship rights and human rights of African Americans. From the seventeenth century, when it was encoded into law that the enslaved could not own, carry, or use a firearm whatsoever, until today, with measures to expand and curtail gun ownership aimed disproportionately at the African American population, the right to bear arms has been consistently used as a weapon to keep African Americans powerless--revealing that armed or unarmed, Blackness, it would seem, is the threat that must be neutralized and punished. Throughout American history to the twenty-first century, regardless of the laws, court decisions, and changing political environment, the Second has consistently meant this: That the second a Black person exercises this right, the second they pick up a gun to protect themselves (or the second that they don't), their life--as surely as Philando Castile's, Tamir Rice's, Alton Sterling's--may be snatched away in that single, fatal second. Through compelling historical narrative merging into the unfolding events of today, Anderson's penetrating investigation shows that the Second Amendment is not about guns but about anti-Blackness, shedding shocking new light on another dimension of racism in America.
Author | : J. Peter Meekison |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 527 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Canada |
ISBN | : 1553390083 |
Beginning with an examination of the role of traditional institutions such as Parliament, Cabinet, the Supreme Court, and political parties, Canada: State of the Federation 2002 affirms the long-held belief that these bodies do not provide effective forums for interregional bargaining, creating a void that has been filled at least in part by executive federalism. Contributors conclude that the performance of traditional institutions, taken as a whole, has deteriorated over the last several decades, placing more pressure on the processes of executive federalism.
Author | : Donald J. Savoie |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0773541101 |
An insightful account of the forces that shape Ottawa's expenditure budget and the relations between politicians and public servants.
Author | : Donald J. Savoie |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 2015-08-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0773597956 |
Recent decades have shown the public's support for government plummet alongside political leaders’ credibility. This downward spiral calls for an exploration of what has gone wrong. The questions, "What is government good at?" and "What is government not good at?" are critical ones - and their answers should be the basis for good public policy and public administration. In What Is Government Good At?, Donald Savoie argues that politicians and public servants are good at generating and avoiding blame, playing to a segment of the population to win the next election, embracing and defending the status quo, adding management layers and staff, keeping ministers out of trouble, responding to demands from the prime minister and his office, and managing a complex, prime minister-centred organization. Conversely, they are not as good at defining the broader public interest, providing and recognizing evidence-based policy advice, managing human and financial resources with efficiency and frugality, innovating and reforming itself, being accountable to Parliament and to citizens, dealing with non-performers, paying sufficient attention to service delivery, and implementing and evaluating the impact of policies and programs. With wide implications for representative democracy, What Is Government Good At? is a persuasive analysis of an approach to government that has opened the door to those with the resources to influence policy and decision-making while leaving average citizens on the outside looking in.