How Ottawa Spends, 2007-2008 : The Harper Conservatives - Climate of Change

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 The Harper Conservatives in Power: Emissions Impossible -- PART I: MACRO CHOICES AND CHALLENGES -- 2 Addressing the Fiscal Imbalance Through Asymmetrical Federalism: Dangerous Times for the Harper Government and for Canada -- 3 La Grande Seduction: Wooing Quebec -- 4 "Getting Down to Business" Rebuilding Canada-U.S. Relations Under the Harper Government -- 5 The Federal Accountability Act: How Ottawa Steps Backward in Monitoring Political Ethics and Integrity -- 6 Why Ministerial Responsibility Can Still Work -- 7 Room for Manoeuver? The Tory Agenda and Liberal Commitments -- PART II: SELECTED POLICY, POLITICAL AND BUDGETARY REALMS -- 8 Energy Shift: Canadian Energy Policy Under the Harper Conservatives -- 9 Patience! … Wait Time Guarantees and Conservative Health Care Policy -- 10 The Harper Government's Universal Child Care Plan: Paradoxical or Purposeful Social Policy? -- 11 Federal Public Service Labour Relations: Business as Usual? -- 12 Righting Wrongs: Locking Them Up Without Losing the Key - Tory Reforms to Crime and Punishment -- 13 Public-Private Partnerships: P3 and the "Porcupine Problem" -- 14 Consumer Protection Through Free Markets, Small Government, and Individual Responsibility? The Federal Approach, 1993-2007 -- Appendix A: Canadian Political Facts and Trends -- Appendix B: Fiscal Facts and Trends -- Contributors.