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Minding the Public Purse

The Fiscal Crisis, Political Trade-offs, and Canada's Future

by (author) Janice MacKinnon

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Initial publish date
Mar 2003
Category
General, Economic Policy
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780773527492
    Publish Date
    Sep 2003
    List Price
    $37.95
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780773525542
    Publish Date
    Mar 2003
    List Price
    $110.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780773571129
    Publish Date
    Mar 2003
    List Price
    $110.00

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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.

About the author

Former minister of finance for the province of Saskatchewan and University of Saskatchewan

Janice MacKinnon's profile page