Cover

Title

Copyright

Table Of Contents

Preface

1. The Liberals' Mid-Life Crises: Aspirations versus Achievements

2. The Federal Debt

3 The National Unity Portfolio

4. "Job Ready, I Ready": Job Creation and Labour Market Reform in Canada

5. Canada Infrastructure Works: Between "Picks and Shovels" and the Information Highway

6. Prosperity Through Networks: The Bottom-Up Strategy That Might Have Been

7. Shifting the Burden: Liberal Policy for Post-Secondary Education

8. Redesigning Welfare: The Abandonment of a National Commitment

9. Aboriginal Social Assistance Expenditures

10. The Integrity Agenda: Lead Us Not into Temptation

11. Miniature Mila and Flying Geese: Government Advertising and Canadian Democracy

12. The "Liberal" Treatment of Violent Young Offenders

13. Warring Over Wheat: Managing Bilateral Trading Tensions

14. Federal Spending on the Atlantic Fisheries

Fiscal Facts and Trends

Resumes En Francais

Chapter Abstracts In English

Contributors