Minding the Public Purse: The Fiscal Crisis, Political Trade-offs, and Canada's FutureMcGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 06.03.2003 - 352 Seiten MacKinnon, Canada's first female finance minister, provides keen observations on how personalities and shared regional perspectives cut across party affiliations in the evolution of federal-provincial deliberations on managing the debt crisis. Although initially opposed to the radical cuts and downloading unilaterally imposed by the federal minister of Finance in his 1995 budget, she now argues that they were essential and analyses how they have irrevocably transformed the Canadian federation. MacKinnon provides a timely analysis of the implications of the fiscal crisis for the future of medicare and Canada's other social programs and shows why politicians must involve the Canadian public in an open and frank debate about the challenges and choices facing the nation. |
Inhalt
The Federal Origins of the Fiscal Crisis | 3 |
Going Backward or Forward? PostDeficit Drift and Exiting | 12 |
Attacking the Civil Service and Signing | 29 |
The 1993 Fiscal Crisis | 97 |
Differing Provincial Approaches to Deficit Reduction | 130 |
part three the national and federalprovincial | 153 |
A Tempest in a Teapot and the Mad Hatters | 173 |
Working Together? Redesign or Offloading? | 191 |
Martins Landmark 1995 Budget | 205 |
Health Care Health Care and Only Health Care? | 228 |
Notes | 283 |
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