Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. The Harper Conservatives in Power: Emissions Impossible 3
5. Macro Choices and Challenges
6. Addressing the Fiscal Imbalance through Asymmetrical Federalism: Dangerous Times for the Harper Government and for Canada 25
7. La Grande Seduction: Wooing Quebec 46
8. “Getting Down to Business” – Rebuilding Canada-U.S. Relations under the Harper Government 63
9. The Federal Accountability Act: How Ottawa Steps Backward in Monitoring Political Ethics and Integrity 87
10. Why Ministerial Accountability Can Still Work 105
11. Room for Manoeuver? The Tory Agenda and Liberal Commitments 123
12. Selected Policy, Political, and Budgetary Realms
13. Energy Shift: Canadian Energy Policy under the Harper Conservatives 143
14. Patience! … Wait Time Guarantees and Conservative Health Care Policy 161
15. The Harper Government’s Universal Child Care Plan: Paradoxical or Purposeful Social Policy? 180
16. Federal Public Service Labour Relations: Business as Usual? 200
17. Righting Wrongs: Locking them up without losing the Key-Tory Reforms to Crime and Punishment 220
18. Public-Private Partnerships: P3 and the “Porcupine Problem” 254
19. Consumer Protection through Free Markets, Small Government, and Individual Responsibility? The Federal Approach, 1993–2007 273
20. Appendices
21. Canadian Political Facts and Trends 295
22. Fiscal Facts and Trends 301
23. Contributors 319
24. The How Ottawa Spends Series 323