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Canadian Federalism

Performance, Effectiveness, and Legitimacy, Fourth Edition

edited by Herman Bakvis & Grace Skogstad

Publisher
University of Toronto Press, Higher Education Division
Initial publish date
Aug 2020
Category
Canadian, General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780195425123
    Publish Date
    Jul 2007
    List Price
    $62.95
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780195439793
    Publish Date
    Mar 2012
    List Price
    $134.99
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781487570439
    Publish Date
    Jul 2020
    List Price
    $83.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781487570453
    Publish Date
    Jul 2020
    List Price
    $66.00
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781487570446
    Publish Date
    Aug 2020
    List Price
    $165.00

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Description

Canadian Federalism is Canada’s leading text on federal institutions and processes. The fourth edition provides extensive updates and covers all the significant developments of the past decade, including Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s battles with the Supreme Court and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s efforts at a more co-operative approach to intergovernmental relations. It also features two entirely new chapters – one on criminal justice and criminal law, the other on comparative federalism. Specific topics include the Supreme Court’s renewed emphasis on co-operative federalism and a federal–provincial balance tilted more in favour of the provinces, the Trudeau government’s efforts to broker a deal between provinces over pipelines and carbon taxes as part of its commitment under the Paris Agreement, the strains imposed on federal–provincial relations with the influx of refugees, and the changing role of Ottawa and the provinces towards cities and in accommodating Indigenous rights. Examination of these key issues includes discussion of the implications of the 2019 federal election and recent provincial elections.

About the authors

Herman Bakvis joined the School of Public Administration at the University of Victoria as a Professor in July 2005, after 26 years at Dalhousie University in both the Department of Political Science and School of Public Administration. He was Director of the School at Dalhousie from 2000 to 2004.

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Grace Skogstad is a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto.

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