Overview

Managing Federalism through Pandemic summarises and analyses multiple policy dimensions of Canada's response to the COVID-19 pandemic and related policy issues from the perspective of Canadian federalism. Contributors address the relative effectiveness of intergovernmental cooperation at the summit level and in policy fields including emergency management, public health, national security, Indigenous peoples and governments, border governance, crisis communications, fiscal federalism, income security policies (CERB), supply chain resilience, and interacting energy and climate policies. Despite serious policy failures of individual governments, repeated fluctuations in the overall effectiveness of pandemic management, and growing public frustration across provinces and regions, contributors show how processes for inter-governmental cooperation adapted reasonably well to the pandemic's unprecedented stresses, particularly at the outset. The book concludes that, despite individual policy failures, Canada's decentralised approach to policy management often enabled regional adaptation to varied conditions, helped to contain serious policy failures, and contributed to various degrees of policy learning across governments. Managing Federalism through Pandemic reveals how the pandemic exposed structural policy weaknesses which transcend federalism but have significant implications for how governments work together (or don't) to promote their citizens' well-being.

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Author:   Kathy L. Brock ,  Geoffrey Hale
Publisher:   University of Toronto Press
Imprint:   University of Toronto Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.560kg
ISBN:  

9781487548117

ISBN 10:   1487548117
Pages:   416
Publication Date:   07 November 2023
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Figures List of Tables Acronyms and Abbreviations Acknowledgments Part One: Introduction 1. Pandemic Federalism: Bridging the Normative–Functional Federalism Gap Kathy L. Brock and Geoffrey Hale   2. Cooperative Federalism and Managing Intergovernmental Relations through the Pandemic: Setting the Framework Kathy L. Brock Part Two: Anticipating and Managing the Pandemic Response 3. Coordinating Emergency Management within and across Governments Johanu Botha and Geoffrey Hale 4. COVID-19 Federalism and Public Health Regimes in Canada Carey Doberstein 5. Global Pandemics and National Security: Will the Federal Government Have Your Back? Andrew Graham and Eugene Lang 6. What We Have Here Is a Failure to Anticipate (Again!): Indigenous Peoples, Self-Determination, and Canada’s COVID-19 Pandemic Response Yale D. Belanger and Calvin Hanselmann 7. Canada–US Border Governance during the COVID-19 Pandemic Kathryn Friedman and Laurie Trautman 8. Pandemic Communications: How Leaders Encouraged Canadians to Stay the Blazes Home Jeni Armstrong and Alex Marland Part Three: Economic and Social Issues: Responses, Reopenings, Relaunching, and Rebuilding 9. Pandemic Fiscal Federalism and Future Prospects Kyle Hanniman 10. Interactions between Federal and Provincial Cash Transfer Programs: The Effect of the Canada Emergency Response Benefit on Provincial Income Assistance Eligibility and Benefits Gillian Petit and Lindsay M. Tedds 11. Globalization, Federalism, and Supply Chain Security Patrick James and Geoffrey Hale 12. A Crisis within a Crisis: Canadian Energy and Climate Federalism during the Pandemic Brendan Boyd Part Four: Lessons for the Federation from the Pandemic 13. Crises, Mega-Crises, and Beyond: The Evolving and Functions of Intergovernmental Units in Federal Governance Systems Evert Lindquist 14. Pandemic Federalism: Bridging the Normative–Functional Federalism Gap – Conclusions and Continuing Challenges Kathy L. Brock and Geoffrey Hale References List of Contributors Index

Reviews

"""This is a timely and valuable contribution to understanding the unique nature of Canadian federalism and the challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic. From cooperation to confrontation, the Canadian case exhibited it all. This book unravels the many governance challenges the pandemic presented and considers how the federation fared in steering a course through them.""--David McLaughlin, President and CEO, Institute on Governance; former Clerk of the Executive Council and Cabinet Secretary; and Deputy Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs, Government of Manitoba ""The COVID-19 pandemic created massive policy challenges closely intertwined with Canada's federal institutions. In this book, expert contributors assess the impact of the pandemic on federalism and intergovernmental relations. Managing Federalism through Pandemic covers a diverse array of topics while keeping an eye on the big picture, making it a most valuable resource for readers interested in federalism and public policy in Canada.""--Daniel Béland, James McGill Professor of Political Science and Director of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada (MISC), McGill University"

""This is a timely and valuable contribution to understanding the unique nature of Canadian federalism and the challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic. From cooperation to confrontation, the Canadian case exhibited it all. This book unravels the many governance challenges the pandemic presented and considers how the federation fared in steering a course through them.""--David McLaughlin, President and CEO, Institute on Governance; former Clerk of the Executive Council and Cabinet Secretary; and Deputy Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs, Government of Manitoba ""The COVID-19 pandemic created massive policy challenges closely intertwined with Canada's federal institutions. In this book, expert contributors assess the impact of the pandemic on federalism and intergovernmental relations. Managing Federalism through Pandemic covers a diverse array of topics while keeping an eye on the big picture, making it a most valuable resource for readers interested in federalism and public policy in Canada.""--Daniel Béland, James McGill Professor of Political Science and Director of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada (MISC), McGill University

"""The COVID-19 pandemic created massive policy challenges closely intertwined with Canada's federal institutions. In this book, expert contributors assess the impact of the pandemic on federalism and intergovernmental relations. Managing Federalism through Pandemic covers a diverse array of topics while keeping an eye on the big picture, making it a most valuable resource for readers interested in federalism and public policy in Canada."" - Daniel Béland, James McGill Professor of Political Science and Director of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada (MISC), McGill University ""This is a timely and valuable contribution to understanding the unique nature of Canadian federalism and the challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic. From cooperation to confrontation, the Canadian case exhibited it all. This book unravels the many governance challenges the pandemic presented and considers how the federation fared in steering a course through them."" - David McLaughlin, President and CEO, Institute on Governance; former Clerk of the Executive Council and Cabinet Secretary; and Deputy Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs, Government of Manitoba"

Author Information

Kathy L Brock is a professor at the School of Policy Studies and the Department of Political Studies at Queen's University. Geoffrey Hale is a professor emeritus in the Department of Political Science at the University of Lethbridge.

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