Policy Transformation in Canada

Carolyn Tuohy is a professor emeritus of political science and founding fellow in the School of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Toronto. Sophie Borwein is a PhD student in Political Science at the University of Toronto, Junior Fellow of Massey College, and the first public editor of University of Toronto’s student newspaper, a role focused on serving the interests of both the newspaper’s readers and its journalists. Peter John Loewen is a professor in the Department of Political Science and the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto. Andrew Potter is a noted journalist and editor-in-chief of the Ottawa Citizen.

Preface

1. Downstream from the Centennial: Navigating Fifty Years of Policy Change
    Sophie Borwein and Carolyn Hughes Tuohy

Part I: Generational Prospects, Then and Now

2. Dreams along a Journey
    Michael Valpy
3. Discounting Now and Then
    Joseph Heath
4. Postponed Adulthood, the Inequality Surge, and the Millennial Burden
    John Myles
5. Half a Century of Pension Reform in Canada
    Daniel Béland

Part II: The Economy, the Environment, and the Federation

6. The Economy: From Innovation to Policy
    Michelle Alexopoulos and Jon Cohen
7. Natural Resources, Federalism, and the Canadian Economy
    Kathryn Harrison
8. Environmental Policy Transformations and Canada at 150
    Jennifer Winter
9. The Environment as an Urban Policy Issue in Canada
    Matti Siemiatycki
10. Canada’s Radical Fiscal Federation: The Next Fifty Years
      Kevin Milligan

Part III: Rethinking Sovereignty, Allegiance, and Rights

11. Reasonable Accommodation, Diversity, and the Supreme Court of Canada
      Emmett Macfarlane
12. Invisibility, Wilful Blindness, Impending Doom: The Future (if Any) of Canadian Federalism
      Jean Leclair
13. Canadian Federalism, Canadian Allegiance, and Economic Inequality
      Jeremy Webber
14. Indigenous-Canadian Relations at the Sesquicentennial: An Opportunity for Real and Lasting Transformation
      Sheryl Lightfoot
15. Reconciliation with a Question Mark: Three Moments
      Christa Scholtz
16. Reconciliation, Colonization, and Climate Futures
      Deborah McGregor

Part IV: Canada’s Borders and Beyond

17. Fifty Years of Canadian Immigration Policy
      Antje Ellermann
18. From Gérin-Lajoie to USMCA: The Role of the Canadian Provinces in Trade Negotiation
      Stéphane Paquin
19. Canada and the World: Managing Insecurity in a Changing Global Order
      Aisha Ahmad
20. Has Canada Reached Policy Gridlock?
      Peter Loewen and Andrew Potter

Contributors