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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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"""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"

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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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