The Public Sector in an Age of Austerity
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The Public Sector in an Age of Austerity

Perspectives from Canada’s Provinces and Territories

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The Public Sector in an Age of Austerity

Perspectives from Canada’s Provinces and Territories

About this book

Following the 2008 global financial crisis, Canada appeared to escape the austerity implemented elsewhere, but this was spin hiding the reality. A closer look reveals that the provinces - responsible for delivering essential public and social services such as education and healthcare - shouldered the burden.

The Public Sector in an Age of Austerity examines public-sector austerity in the provinces and territories, specifically addressing how austerity was implemented, what forms austerity agendas took (from regressive taxes and new user fees to public-sector layoffs and privatization schemes), and what, if any, political responses resulted. Contributors focus on the period from 2007 to 2015, the global financial crisis and the period of fiscal consolidation that followed, while also providing a longer historical context - austerity is not a new phenomenon. A granular examination of each jurisdiction identifies how changing fiscal conditions have affected the delivery of public services and restructured public finances, highlighting the consequences such changes have had for public-sector workers and users of public services.

The first book of its kind in Canada, The Public Sector in an Age of Austerity challenges conventional wisdom by showing that Canada did not escape post-crisis austerity, and that its recovery has been vastly overstated.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. Tables and Figures
  5. Introduction: The Permanent Unequal Union: Canada’s Provinces and Territories in an Era of Neoliberalism
  6. 1. BC’s Recurrent Austerity: Victory Unfettered from Success
  7. 2. Alberta and the Great Recession: Neoliberalism, Conservative Government, and Public Finance
  8. 3. Active Incrementalism and the Politics of Austerity in the “New Saskatchewan”
  9. 4. Manitoba: Fiscal Policy and the Public Sector under “Today’s NDP”
  10. 5. Ontario in an Age of Austerity: Common Sense Reloaded
  11. 6. From the Bailiffs at Our Doors to the Greek Peril: Twenty Years of Fiscal “Urgency” and Quebec Politics
  12. 7. Between “The Rock” and a Hard Place: Fiscal Policy in New Brunswick since 2007
  13. 8. Provincial Fiscal Strategies and Public-Sector Management in Nova Scotia
  14. 9. Austerity in the Garden Province of Prince Edward Island
  15. 10. Newfoundland’s Boom: A Study in the Political Culture of Neoliberalism
  16. 11. Nunavut: Conceived in Austerity
  17. 12. Fiscally Conservative Governance without Austerity: Devolution, Aboriginal Self-Government, and the Northwest Territories
  18. 13. Fiscal Outlier: Yukon in an Austere Age
  19. Contributors
  20. Index