Featuring insights from some of the top specialists in the country, Fiscal Federalism in Canada unpacks numerous complexities of fiscal federalism in Canada. The book features key regional and provincial perspectives, while taking into account Indigenous realities, the three territories, and municipal affairs. The contributing authors go beyond the major federal transfers to examine the financing of education, cities, infrastructure, and housing.
This volume shows that fiscal federalism is much more than simply an aggregate of individual programs and transfers. It highlights the role of actors other than the federal and provincial governments and recalls the importance of territoriality. The book pays close attention to the political dimension of fiscal federalism in Canada, which is at the heart of how the federation functions and is essential to its governance. Fiscal federalism is central to the funding of critical programs through intergovernmental transfers, but it is also the focus of political debates on territorial redistribution. In tackling essential questions, Fiscal Federalism in Canada contributes to the so-called second-generation fiscal federalism literature, taking stock of the critical sociological and political issues at its core.
Featuring insights from some of the top specialists in the country, Fiscal Federalism in Canada unpacks numerous complexities of fiscal federalism in Canada. The book features key regional and provincial perspectives, while taking into account Indigenous realities, the three territories, and municipal affairs. The contributing authors go beyond the major federal transfers to examine the financing of education, cities, infrastructure, and housing.
This volume shows that fiscal federalism is much more than simply an aggregate of individual programs and transfers. It highlights the role of actors other than the federal and provincial governments and recalls the importance of territoriality. The book pays close attention to the political dimension of fiscal federalism in Canada, which is at the heart of how the federation functions and is essential to its governance. Fiscal federalism is central to the funding of critical programs through intergovernmental transfers, but it is also the focus of political debates on territorial redistribution. In tackling essential questions, Fiscal Federalism in Canada contributes to the so-called second-generation fiscal federalism literature, taking stock of the critical sociological and political issues at its core.
1. Introduction: Fiscal Federalism under the
Microscope
André Lecours, Daniel Béland, Trevor Tombe, and Eric Champagne
2. The Struggle for Equity That Saved the Federation
Mary Janigan
3. Fiscal Federalism and the Federal Spending Power: A Legal and
Constitutional Analysis
Peter Oliver
4. The Challenges and Opportunities Facing Canada’s Fiscal
Arrangements after COVID-19
Trevor Tombe
5. The Canada Health Transfer: Past, Present, and Future
Robin Boadway
6. Ceremonial Fiscal Federalism: Social Assistance and the
Canada Social Transfer
Michael J. Prince
7. Living on Equalization Payments: How Hard Is It for Receiving
Provinces to Anticipate Future Equalization Revenues?
Marcelin Joanis
8. Canadian Fiscal Federalism and the Provinces’ Natural
Resource Revenues
James Feehan
9. Fiscal Federalism, Governance, and Provincial Debt
Kyle Hanniman
10. Fiscal Federalism in Canada’s North: Understanding
Territorial Formula Financing
Christopher Yurris, Daniel Béland, and Trevor Tombe
11. Leading the Way: First Nations in Canadian Fiscal
Federalism
Donn. L. Feir and David Scoones
12. Long-Term Care Reform in Canada in the Wake of COVID-19: The
Poverty of the National Standards Solution
Anthony Breton and Patrik Marier
13. Cities in Canadian Fiscal Federalism: The Forgotten
Partner
Enid Slack
14. Coming Full Circle: Federalism and Responsibility for
Housing
Steve Pomeroy
15. Public Infrastructure Financing and Multilevel Governance in
Canada
Eric Champagne and Aracelly Denise Granja
16. Financing Education in Canada
Jennifer Wallner
17. Child-Care in a Decentralized Federation: Who Pays?
Jennifer Robson
18. Diversity in Adversity: Fiscal Federalism, the Four Atlantic
Provinces, and Canada’s Great Demographic Imbalance
Richard Saillant
19. Quebec’s Fiscal Federalism Trilemma
Alain Noël
20. Fiscal Fortunes: An Ontario Perspective on
Federal-Provincial Transfers
Tracy Snoddon
21. Canadian Fiscal Federalism and Alberta’s Latest Attempt to
Get a Fair(er) Deal
Ken Boessenkool
22. Canadian Fiscal Federalism in Comparative
Perspective
Alan Fenna
23. Conclusion
André Lecours, Daniel Béland, Trevor Tombe, and Eric
Champagne
André Lecours is a professor of political studies at the University
of Ottawa.
Daniel Béland is Director of the McGill Institute for the Study of
Canada and James McGill Professor in the Department of Political
Science at McGill University.
Trevor Tombe is a professor of economics and a research fellow at
the School of Public Policy at the University of Calgary.
Eric Champagne is an associate professor of public administration
at the School of Political Studies and the Director of the Centre
on Governance at the University of Ottawa.
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