• Editors' Preface Preface
• 1. Introduction The Roots of Ambivalence The Institutionalization of Ambivalence The Organization of Interests Conclusions Notes
• 2. Constitutional Change Context Agenda Process Consequences Readings The Pequiste Manifesto The Federal Response to Quebec's Constitutional Agenda The Quebec Referendum Entrenched Rights versus Parliamentary Supremacy The Quebec Liberals' Constitutional Position during the 1980 Referendum Campaign The Meech Lake Accord (Excerpts) Trudeau's Criticism of the Accord One Legislator's Ambivalence Notes
• 3. Health Care Delivery Context Agenda Process Consequences Readings A Health Charter for Canadians Governmental Insurance and Clinical Judgment: A Medical View The Canadian Medical Association and Canadian Medicare The Canadian Nurses Association and Canadian Medicare A Consumers' Coalition Seeks a Community-Based Health Plan Extra-Billing and the Universality of Social Programs The Medical Profession Seeks a Partnership with Government The Policy Agenda of the 1990s at the Provincial Level Notes
• 4. Industrial Relations and Labour-Market Policy Context Agenda Process Consequences Readings The Business View of Labour-Management Cooperation Labour's Approach to Social Partnership Government as a Catalyst in Labour-Management Cooperation An Evaluation of Government Adjustment Assistance Labour on Collective Bargaining and Labour-Market Policy Notes
• 5. Economic Development and Adjustment Context Agenda Process Consequences Readings The BCNI Critique of Canadian Industrial Policy Labour's Goals: Full Employment and Greater Public Control The Macdonald Commission on Canada-U.S. Trade Labour's Focus on Full Employment The Commons Debate on the Free Trade Agreement Notes
• 6. Oil and Gas Policy Context Agenda Process Consequences Readings The Gordon Commission's View of Foreign Investment in Canadian Oil Western Canadian Resistance to the National Energy Program The Federal Defence of the National Energy Program The Business Community and the National Energy Program Federal and Provincial Powers over Natural Resources Notes
• 7. Minority Language Rights Context Agenda Process Consequences Readings Trudeau on Language Rights Levesque on Francophones outside Quebec The Manifesto of Quebec's Radical Nationalists The Union Nationale Government on the Status of French The Courts on Linguistic Education Rights Language Rights in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedom The Commissioner of Official Languages on Multiculturalism Notes
• 8. Competence and Crisis: Canada's Ambivalent Institutions Elite Accommodation: The Role of Mediating Interests Partisanship and Federalism The Need for Institutional Change Summary References Index.
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At a time when Canadian political institutions are being fundamentally questioned, this book provides a comparative perspective on the distinctive features of the Canadian policy process which have enabled conflict to be resolved in the past. In comparison with other Western industrial nations, Canada's policies in some arenas appear as models of workable compromise; in others, they stand out as marked by continuing irresolution. In this first book-length treatment of Canadian public policy in comparative perspective, Carolyn Tuohy focuses on constitutional change, health care delivery, industrial relations and labor market policy, economic development and adjustment, oil and gas policy, and minority language rights. What distinguishes Canada's characteristic policy process is its quintessential ambivalence: ambivalence about the appropriate role of the state, about definitions of political community, and about individual and collective values and conceptions of rights. Embedded in the country's political institutions, it has deep roots in Canada's relationship to the United States, its history of English-French tensions, and its regional diversity. Examining, in particular, the delicate federal-provincial division of power and the legislative-judicial relationship, Tuohy discusses how the constitutional debates of the 1980s and 1990s are testing Canada's institutions to resolve conflict. Author note: Carolyn J. Tuohy is Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto.
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• List of tables and figures-- Acknowledgments-- Introduction--
• 1. The problem of political support--
• 2. Economy, society, self--
• 3. Democracy, political system, self--
• 4. Political support and its correlates--
• 5. Regional disaffection: Quebec and the West--
• 6. Elections and political support--
• 7. Causes and consequences of political support--
• 8. Political support in representative democracies-- Appendix-- References-- Index.
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The related subjects of political legitimacy and system support are key theoretical concerns of students of democratic societies. They have received very little scholarly attention, however, because of the conceptual and methodological complexities they engender. In this book the authors address these concerns through systematic multivariate analyses of the sources, distribution, and consequences of variations in citizen support for key political objects in one such society, Canada. Although the authors do so within a comparative context, their primary focus is on Canada because it is one of the world's oldest democracies and is a country that has experienced support problems that periodically have reached crisis proportion. Many of the problems facing Canada are more extreme examples of difficulties that have vexed other democracies. This study helps illuminate both the conditions under which democracies in general are able to sustain themselves and those under which they could flounder. The authors demonstrate that political support has its origins in people's political socialization experiences and their instrumental judgments about the operation of key political and economic institutions and processes. They find that political support is not 'of a piece'. Average citizens are able to distinguish among and ascribe different degrees of support to key objects such as parliament, the bureaucracy, judiciary, political community itself. Support also is dynamic and can vary markedly over relatively brief intervals of time. For example, periodic national elections, changing economic conditions, and the activities of political parties have a significant impact on support levels. And, differences in support for authorities, regime, and community do matter. They affect the levels of public participation in a variety of conventional and unconventional political activities as well as the relative willingness of people to comply with the authoritative edicts of government.
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Significant shifts in the dynamics of citizen-state relations have taken place throughout the advanced industrial world over the last two decades or so, and a growing body of evidence suggests that these reorientations have been shaped by value changes among publics. On these two broad themes there is a consensus. But this consensus fragments when it comes to providing answers to second-order questions, such as What are the causes of these transformations? What are the most important dimensions of these value changes? What are their implications? And How can the consequence of some of these shifts be addressed? In Value Change and Governance in Canada, six contributors from political science and psychology come together to discuss these issues, and look at changes in the ways citizens view democracy, governments, and legislation. As part of the Trends Series to examine Canadian public policy from the point of view of academia, this book explores important changes in modern society and will be an essential resource for future Canadian policy development.
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• [v. 1] Citizenship, labour, and immigration
• [v. 2] Environment
• [v. 3] Health and sports [v. 4] Indians and Natives
• [v. 5] Justice system.

• [v. 1] Procurement
• [v. 2] Major surveys
• [v. 3] Real property
• [v. 4] Regulatory agencies
• [v. 5] Regulatory programs.

Is the government becoming less powerful? Is it in retreat vis-a-vis a proliferation of non-governmental agencies, multinational corporations, and international organizations? The essays in this collection argue that - contrary to some private-sector populists - the state is in the best position to lead in making policy in a rapidly changing world and should retain and refine this responsibility. Examining the interaction of government, international organizations, civil society, and the private sector, the contributors show that government, far from being stagnant, is in a constant state of transformation and revitalization. It may work to prepare citizens for changes that often seem inevitable and sometimes it challenges, even resists, the directions or modes of such change. It remains an important - perhaps the most crucial - actor in the governance process.
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America's northern neighbour faces a severe constitutional crisis. Unprecedented levels of public support for sovereignty in the predominantly French-speaking province of Quebec could lead to the breakup of Canada. This crisis was precipitated by two Canadian provinces' failure in 1990 to ratify the Meech Lake Accord, a package of revisions to Canada's constitution that addressed Quebec's grievances concerning its place within the Canadian federation. The current predicament is not an isolated incident - it is part of a recurring pattern of consitutional crises in Canada. The longer-term question is, can workable solutions be found to keep Canada intact, or is a sovereign Quebec inevitable sooner or later? This book, aimed at an international audience, examines the complex roots of Canada's constitutional discontent, the options currently being considered, and possible futures for "northern North America". Kent Weaver begins with an analysis of the interaction of Canadian social divisions and political institutions in managing political conflict, arguing that traditional institutional arrangements have been irreparably undermined by social change and that current institutions often exacerbate political divisions. Stephane Dion shows how two structural factors - Quebecers' fear of disappearing within an overwhelmingly English-speaking North America and increased confidence that Quebec can stand on its own - have combined with short-term catalystic factors, notably a feeling of rejection over the collapse of the Meech Lake Accord, to shape the ebb and flow of nationalist sentiment in Quebec in recent years. Andrew Stark argues that notions of citizenship and the state associated with important philosophical currents in English Canada, create severe problems for attempts to reach an accommodation with Quebec. Keith Banting examines scenarios for Canada's future with and without a politically sovereign Quebec and the implications of these scenarios for the United States.
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• Pross, A. P. Pressure groups, adaptive instruments of political communication.--Dawson, H. J. National pressure groups and the federal government.--Chant, D. A. Pollution probe, fighting the polluters with their own weapons.--Kwavnick, D. Interest group demands and the federal political system, two Canadian case studies.--Bucovetsky, M. W. The mining industry and the great tax reform debate.--Barry, D. Interest groups and the foreign policy process, the case of Biafra.--Pross, A. P. Imput versus withinput, pressure group demands and administrative survival.--Aucoin, P. Pressure groups and recent changes in the policy-making process.