David Mutimer

Canadian Annual Review of Politics and Public Affairs, 2005

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Produktbeschreibung

This latest instalment reviews the year 2005, a year in which the first minority parliament since Joe Clark's short-lived government struggled to maintain stability.

Produktdetails

• Canadian Annual Review of Politics and Public Affairs
• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• 2005 edition
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 163mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 692g
• ISBN-13: 9781442643857
• ISBN-10: 1442643854
• Artikelnr.: 33807188

Autorenporträt

Edited by David Mutimer

Inhaltsangabe

Contributors 
Canadian Calendar 
Editor’s introduction ? the year in review 
Parliament and politics by Robert Everett 
THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF MARTIN 
Flirting with fiasco; May days; Summer reprieve; Final days
COMMISSION OF INQUIRY INTO THE SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM AND ADVERTISING
ACTIVITIES
Initial phases; Closing the net; First, fateful report
ELECTION 26 
Parties and platforms; On the trail
NATIONAL INSTITUTIONS 
The cabinet ; House makeover: by-elections, defections, and resignations;
The Stronach shock; Legislating switches; Senate; Governor General; Supreme
Court; Auditor General’s reports; Ethics commissioner
NATIONAL ECONOMY 
Economic indicators ;  Budget 25 ; A tale of two budgets; Autumn economic
update ; Allocation of budget surpluses; Income trusts; Cross-border
disputes: softwood lumber, missiles, and marijuana
FEDERAL-PROVINCIAL DYNAMICS 
Atlantic Accord ; Health care
ABORIGINAL AFFAIRS 
The Kelowna accord;  Fiscal and Statistical Management Act 
MAJOR POLICY AREAS 
Same sex marriage;  Greenhouse emissions and Kyoto
PERSONALITIES AND CONTROVERSIES 
Maher Arar inquiry ; The Grewal tapes; David Dingwall and lobbying
Foreign affairs and defence by Christopher Spearin 
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Human rights and poverty; Canada-Iran relations; Arar Inquiry;
The Khadrs;  Sudan; G-8 Summit; Kidnappings in Iraq; Challenges in
Canada-US trade; Beef; Swine  ; Wheat; Softwood lumber; Byrd Amendment;
Economic integration; Global warming; Newfoundland and Labrador and the
rocket controversy; China and spying; Disaster response; Asian Tsumani;
Hurricane Katrina; Earthquake in Pakistan
DEFENCE POLICY
Afghanistan; Military operations; Friendly fire incident; Ballistic missile
defence; The Arctic; Submarines; Chemical agents and testing; Change in
military ombudsman; Change in leadership and structure
Municipal affairs by Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly, Serena Kataoka, and Warren
Magnusson 
CITIES IN THE MARKETPLACE
THE CULTURE OF CITIES 
REGIONAL GOVERNANCE
LOCAL DEMOCRACY 
CITIES IN THE CONFEDERATION 
First Nations by Kristin Burnett 
FEDERAL DEVELOPMENTS
The budgets of 24- government spending on FN issues; Bill C-2; The
alternate dispute resolution process; Residential schools - joint
responsibility; First Ministers’ Summit on aboriginal issues; Appointments;
Assembly of First Nations
PROVINCIAL AND TERRITORIAL DEVELOPMENTS
BRITISH COLUMBIA
Growing protests over national resource extraction; Aboriginal rights and
land claims; United Native Nations Society (UNN); Transferring services
THE WEST 
Housing; Court decisions; Economic development; Adoption; Stolen Sisters
and Project Kare?; Elections; First Nations University of Canada (FNUC);
The Powley Decision
ONTARIO
Residential schools; The inquiry into Ipperwash; Kashechewan;  Harvesting
natural resources
QUEBC
Kanesatake; Natural resource development; Removal and resettlement
MARITIMES 
Treaty Rights  
THE NORTH
The Mackenzie Valley Pipeline; Nunavut; Education
British Columbia by Carey Hill 
TWO THRONE SPEECHES
PROVINCIAL BUDGET
PROVINCIAL ELECTION
SINGLE TRANSFERABLE VOTE
LABOUR ISSUES: STRIKES AND LEGISLATION
Telus ‘strike’; Independent truckers ‘strike’; Teachers’ strike; Other
SOFTWOOD LUMBER DISPUTE
MINING
NEW RELATIONSHIP WITH ABORIGINAL PEOPLES
KELOWNA ACCORD
VANCOUVER’S MUNICIPAL ELECTION
FEDERAL ELECTION
ECONOMY
Alberta by Harold Jansen 
OIL LEADS THE WAY TO AN ECONOMIC BOOM 
THE CENTENNIAL CELEBRATIONS 
TRAGEY IN MAYERTHORPE 
WIND AND WATER: ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES IN ALBERTA 
WHERE’S THE BEEF? THE BSE CRISIS ENDS AND LAKESIDE PACKERS GOES ON STRIKE 
CALGARY’S WARD 1 ELECTION SCANDAL FALLOUT 
THE PROVINCIAL LEGISLATURE 
LEADERSHIP POLITICS 
MISCELLANEOUS 
Saskatchewan by Joseph Garcea 
ELECTIONS 
POLITICAL PARTIES 
THE LEGISLATURE AND GOVERNMENT 
THE BUDGET 
THE ECONOMY  
THE JUDICIARY 
INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS 
ABORIGINAL AFFAIRS 
Manitoba by Geoffrey Lambert 
THE LEGISLATIVE SESSION 
POLITICS AND POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS 
THE ECONOMY 
OTHER EVENTS 
The Territories by Ken Coates and Greg Poelzer 
THE NORTH IN CANADIAN AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS 
YUKON POLITICS 
NORTHWEST TERRITORIES POLITICS 
NUNAVUT POLITICS 
ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES 
SOCIAL CONDITIONS 
THE NORTH IN 25 
Ontario by Robert Drummond 
EDUCATION 
HEALTH 
ENERGY 
IPPERWASH 
Quebec by Daniel Salée  
SHOWDOWN WITH THE STUDENTS 
CLAMPING DOWN ON PUBLIC SECTOR EMPLOYEES 
MEANWHILE, IN THE OPPOSITION CAMP...  
RETHINKING QUEBEC: LUCIDES VS SOLIDAIRES  
FAMILY FEUD: QUEBEC-OTTAWA RELATIONS 
Wrangling over maternity and parental benefits; The national day care
program; Quebec’s role in international affairs
ANNUS HORRIBILIS?
New Brunswick by Richard Wilbur 
THE LEGISLATIVE SESSIONS 
ECONOMY 
The grim plight of the pulp and paper mills  ; Farming and fishing ; Other
segments of economy present uneven picture
THREE BIGGEST SECTORS CONTINUE TO DOMINATE: ENERGY, HEALTH, AND EDUCATIONT
Energy ; Health; Education
Prince Edward Island by Peter E. Buker 
THE ECONOMY 
FISCAL EVENTS 
POLITICS AND THE LEGISLATURE 
OTHER EVENTS 
Nova Scotia by Robert G. Finbow 
POLITICS 
THE LEGISLATURE 
THE ECONOMY 
INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS 
Newfoundland and Labrador by Peter Neary and Melvin Baker  
Obituaries 
Voting tables
Index of names 
Index of subjects