Politique provinciale et territoriale au Canada et au-delà

J14 - Roundtable: Mapping and Assessing IGR - Canada’s Economic (and Monetary) Union

Date: May 31 | Heure: 03:45pm to 05:15pm | Location: Classroom - CL 408 Room ID:15760

Joint Session / Séance conjointe : with Law and Public Policy Section

Chair/Président/Présidente : Grace Skogstad (University of Toronto)

Participants
Daniel Beland (University of Saskatchewan)
Kyle Hanniman (Queen’s University)
Christopher Kukucha (University of Lethbridge)
Amy Verdun (University of Victoria)

Canada’s provincial/territorial and federal governments both exercise jurisdictional authority in a number of areas that affect the performance of Canada’s economic and monetary union. These areas include fiscal policy, industrial policy, labour force development, agriculture, science and technology policy, and securities regulation. In other areas, such as monetary policy, external trade agreements, and equalization, Ottawa has the jurisdictional levers. Even where one government exercises predominant legal authority for a policy area, jurisdictional spillovers—such as those with respect to the environment and the economy-- heighten imperatives for intergovernmental policy coordination. This panel will examine intergovernmental relations with respect to the Canadian economic and monetary union by addressing the following questions. How have Canada’s FTP governments exercised their powers with respect to the economic union? Have they proceeded unilaterally or through coordination and harmonization with other governments? Where their pattern of intergovernmental relations has changed over time, what has prompted the change (for example, towards greater or lesser collaboration)? And what are the outputs of these intergovernmental relations, including for the performance of Canada’s economic union and the distribution and redistribution of wealth across individuals and regions?