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Quebec and Canadian Fiscal Federalism: From Tremblay to Séguin and Beyond.
- Source :
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Canadian Journal of Political Science / Revue Canadienne de Science Politique . Mar2014, Vol. 47 Issue 1, p47-69. 23p. - Publication Year :
- 2014
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Abstract
- Sixty years ago, in late 1953, Quebec launched the hearings of the Royal Commission on Constitutional Problems—or Tremblay commission. Commenting the publication of its report, political scientist Alexander Brady boldly argued in this journal that Quebec had been, until the late 1950s, the “guarantor” of Canada's fiscal system's flexibility (1959: 270). Emphasizing the system's evolution since the 1950s “constitutional problems,” some specialists now contend, as the economist Robin Boadway does, that Canada became the “textbook best-practice of fiscal federalism” (2007: 99). The Tremblay commission's sixtieth anniversary and the termination, in 2014, of the current agreement on federal transfers, provide an opportunity to reassess this evolution and question the validity of this kind of statement. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00084239
- Volume :
- 47
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Canadian Journal of Political Science / Revue Canadienne de Science Politique
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 96442305
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1017/S0008423914000237