Minding the public purse : the fiscal crisis, political trade-offs, and Canada's future /

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"Janice MacKinnon was a Saskatchewan cabinet minister from 1991 to 2001 and minister of Finance from 1993 to 1997. Minding the Public Purse gives us an insider's account of how Saskatchewan avoided fiscal catastrophe and reveals the dynamics of the federal-provincial finance ministers'...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: MacKinnon, Janice, 1947-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Montreal, Que. : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2003.
Subjects:
Fiscal policy > Canada.
Debts, Public > Canada.
Politique fiscale > Canada.
Dettes publiques > Canada.
Dépenses publiques > Canada.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > Macroeconomics.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Economic Conditions.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Economic Policy.
Debts, Public.
Expenditures, Public.
Fiscal policy.
Canada > Appropriations and expenditures.
Canada.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The Federal origins of the fiscal crisis
  • Helping people and winning elections: spend, spend, spend
  • A bad combination: attacking the civil service and signing megaprojects
  • The new economy and the new fights
  • The 1993 Fiscal crisis
  • Differing provincial approaches to deficit reduction
  • Paul Martin and the finance ministers' club
  • Regional divisions: a tempest in a teapot and the mad hatter's tea party
  • Working together? Redesign or offloading?
  • Martin's landmark 1995 budget
  • Health care, health care, and only healthcare?
  • Going backward or forward? Post-deficit drift and exiting politics.

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