Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Tables and Figures vii
4. The Permanent Unequal Union: Canada's Provinces and Territories in an Era of Neoliberalism 3
5. BC's Recurrent Austerity: Victory Unfettered from Success 23
6. Alberta and the Great Recession: Neoliberalism, Conservative Government, and Public Finance 48
7. Active Incrementalism and the Politics of Austerity in the “New Saskatchewan” 71
8. Manitoba: Fiscal Policy and the Public Sector under “Today's NDP” 101
9. Ontario in an Age of Austerity: Common Sense Reloaded 128
10. From the Bailiffs at Our Doors to the Greek Peril: Twenty Years of Fiscal “Urgency” and Quebec Politics 161
11. Between “The Rock” and a Hard Place: Fiscal Policy in New Brunswick since 2007 189
12. Provincial Fiscal Strategies and Public-Sector Management in Nova Scotia 219
13. Austerity in the Garden Province of Prince Edward Island 244
14. Newfoundland's Boom: A Study in the Political Culture of Neoliberalism 279
15. Nunavut: Conceived in Austerity 315
16. Fiscally Conservative Governance without Austerity: Devolution, Aboriginal Self-Government, and the Northwest Territories 350
17. Fiscal Outlier: Yukon in an Austere Age 380
18. Contributors 409
19. Index 413