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Building Saskatchewan's Future
(Saskatchewan Institute of Public Policy, 1998-11-30) Adams, Duane; Gibbins, Roger; Allan, John R.; Romanow, Roy; Frank, Jim; MacKinnon, Janice; Dasko, Donna; Elliott, Doug; Cline, Eric
As a part of its 1999 pre-budget consultation, the Government of Saskatchewan asked the Canada West Foundation and the Saskatchewan Institute of Public Policy to convene and host a broadly representative conference of Saskatchewan citizens to discuss citizen priorities and choices for the upcoming budget. A cross section of citizens and spokespersons for various organisations and interest groups were invited, and a one and one-half day conference was convened in Saskatoon, starting on November 30, 1998. The conference was entitled "Building Saskatchewan's Future". SCN-the Saskatchewan Communications Network-televised the proceedings.
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SIPP Policy Dialogue Number 1 May 2000
(Saskatchewan Institute of Public Policy, 2000-05) Curran, Kathryn; Blake, Raymond; Allan, John; McIntosh, Tom; Hart, Frank; Segal, Hugh
Director’s Notes 2 Public Policy and Public Enterprise 3 Slaying the Deficit Dragon 4 Small Scale Economic Development 5 New Publication 6 Final Words from Hugh Segal
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SIPP Public Policy Papers 01
(Saskatchewan Institute of Public Policy., 2000-10) Kneebone, Ron; Leach, John
What have been the causes of the accumulation of government debt in Canada? How large have been the respective contributions of high interest rates, low growth rates, the business cycle, and changes to tax rates and program expenditures? To what extent have the fiscal choices of members of the Canadian economic union impacted upon one another? This paper investigates these questions and finds that the causes of debt accumulation at the federal level differ substantially from the causes of provincial government debt accumulation. What’s more, we find that the fiscal policy choices of the federal government have had a negative impact on the efforts of the provinces to control their accumulation of debt. This paper was presented at the Fiscal Federalism: Working Out the Future conference, Regina, October 12 and 13, 2000. The conference was sponsored by Saskatchewan Finance and Saskatchewan Institute of Public Policy.
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SIPP Policy Dialogue Number 2 December 2000
(Saskatchewan Institute of Public Policy, 2000-12) Curran, Kathryn; Blake, Raymond; Allan, John
Director’s Notes 2 Mr. Elwin Hermanson: Building Communities, Slaying Government 3 Aboriginal Migration De-Mystified 4 Treaties as a Bridge to the Future 5 Sask Liberal Leader discusses citizen participation in public policy
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SIPP Public Policy Papers 02
(Saskatchewan Institute of Public Policy, 2001-03-06) Dion, Stéphane
Our country is so vast and so diverse that our knowledge of it is always limited. This could be a disadvantage. I believe on the contrary that we draw three advantages from this. First, a permanent call to modesty: all Canadians know they have a lot to learn about their country. Next, an invitation to listen: we know that it is by listening to one another that we will learn. Finally, a creative candour: a Saskatchewanian’s fresh viewpoint on Quebeckers can be useful for them, and vice-versa
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SIPP Public Policy Papers 03
(Saskatchewan Institute of Public Policy, 2001-04) McIntosh, Tom; Rushton, Michael; Kouri, Denise; Horsburgh, Martha E.; Labonte, Ronald; Muhajarine, Nazeem
Table of Contents Contributors......................................................................................................................... v A Fyke in the Road: The ‘New’ Politics of Health Reform........................................... 1 Tom McIntosh Economics, Incentives, and the Fyke Commission on Medicare .................................. 5 Michael Rushton Health System Governance After Fyke........................................................................... 9 Denise Kouri The Fyke Report & Nursing in Saskatchewan ............................................................. 13 Martha E. Horsburgh Caring for Medicare or Caring for Health? Why Health Care Reform is Only a Small Piece of the Puzzle ................................................................................................ 19 Ronald Labonte & Nazeem Muhajarine
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SIPP Public Policy Papers 04
(Saskatchewan Institute of Public Policy, 2001-06) Allan, John R.
Over the last two decades, the public sector has been viewed as cumbersome, unresponsive and costly. In view of its perceived inability to meet the complex and rapidly changing demands of modern societies, there have been calls for the government to “re-invent” itself by shifting its role from primary provider of public goods and services to the procurer and regulator of services from the for-profit and third sectors...
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SIPP Policy Dialogue Number 3 June 2001
(Saskatchewan Institute of Public Policy, 2001-06) Curran, Kathryn; Allan, John; Marshall, Jeff
SIPP suffers loss 2 SIPP launches leadership program 3 Polling for policy SSHRC grant award 4 For greed or for good? 5 Western neglect 6
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SIPP The Scholar Series Fall 2001
(Saskatchewan Institute of Public Policy, 2001-10-18) Marchildon, Gregory P.
Royal Commissions and the Policy Cycle in Canada: The Case of Health Care
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SIPP Public Policy Papers 07
(Saskatchewan Institute of Public Policy, 2001-11) Rushton, Michael
Suppose that changing technology, patterns of trade, and prices have created a situation that, left unchecked by decisive government action, would result in a migration from rural to urban areas. Should the government take an active role to discourage migration, through subsidizing agriculture either through direct payments or through the provision of infrastructure that otherwise would not pass a standard cost-benefit test? Should the government provide such social goods as hospitals and schools to rural areas to a degree unwarranted by the population distribution, again in an effort to stem the flow of migration from rural to urban areas?
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SIPP Public Policy Papers 06
(Saskatchewan Institute of Public Policy, 2001-12) Ruggeri, G. C.; Howard, R.
It is becoming increasingly evident that the fiscal structures of the federal government and of provincial-territorial governments combined are not moving in parallel directions. While provincial and territorial governments must be vigilant in order to avoid budget deficits, the federal government enjoys surpluses that will increase in magnitude over time. This situation indicates that the Canadian federation is entering the new millennium with a fiscal structure that has a built-in tendency to generate vertical fiscal imbalances (VFI).
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SIPP Public Policy Papers 05
(Saskatchewan Institute of Public Policy, 2001-12) Greenberg, Louise
Canada has one of the safest food safety systems in the world. It has created a system that includes regulation, inspection, enforcement, research and education. The various orders of governments, the food industries, retailers, the distribution networks, consumers and farmers all contribute to the safety of the food that we consume. Even so, our food safety system is not infallible as Canada, along with other countries, has experienced a number of serious food safety incidents in recent years.
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SIPP Public Policy Papers 11
(Saskatchewan Institute of Public Policy, 2002) Allan, John R.
The recent release by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (“OECD”) of the results of the Programme for International Student Assessment (“PISA”) has served once more to focus the attention of Canadians on the thorny issue of standardised educational testing. We rightly felt a sense of pride in the accomplishments of the fifteen-yearold Canadians who, in the tests for literacy in reading, mathematics and science, ranked second in reading among the thirty-two countries tested and fifth in mathematics and science. Indeed, the fifteen-year-olds from Alberta actually topped the highest ranked country, Finland, in reading literacy, while those from British Columbia and Quebec were not far behind. In literacy in mathematics, the students from Quebec were second only to those of Japan, while those from Alberta and British Columbia followed closely. With the exception only of New Brunswick, which fell below the OECD average for scientific literacy, all of the Canadian provinces exceeded the 32-nation average in each of the literacy tests. The results for the Saskatchewan students tested were above the OECD averages, but trailed the Canadian average in each area tested. It is of interest to enquire what should be made of such results.
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SIPP Public Policy Papers 08
(Saskatchewan Institute of Public Policy, 2002-02) Arcus, Peter; Parsons, Graham
The three Prairie provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta1 have been in a state of restructuring and change since settlement by European immigrants in the latter half of the 19th and the early part of the 20th centuries. From the 1880s through to the Second World War, the Prairies developed a well-earned reputation as “the breadbasket of the world”. Settlements, road and rail transportation, government institutions, research and legislation, were all created around the needs of the export grain economy.
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SIPP The Scholar Series Winter 2002
(Saskatchewan Institute of Public Policy, 2002-02-26) Leeson, Howard
Canadian Foreign Policy and the Events of September 11: A Dramatic Turn
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SIPP Public Policy Papers 09
(Saskatchewan Institute of Public Policy, 2002-03) Bullinger, Anne-Béatrice
This paper summarizes and analyzes a 1999 report by the Swiss federal government and the cantons (Conseil fédéral 1999), which presents the planned reform of the equalization system in Switzerland. I argue that this reform is the result of hard work by both levels of government, and that it proposes ideal solutions to reform Swiss federalism in terms of economic rationality, but I doubt that such an extensive reform can be successfully implemented within the Swiss political context.
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SIPP Public Policy Papers 10
(Saskatchewan Institute of Public Policy, 2002-03) Hornosty, Jennie; Doherty, Deborah
In order to understand wife abuse in a rural context, it is important to recognize the nature of that context. New Brunswick is a largely rural province with 51% of its 738,133 inhabitants living in areas defined as rural. According to the 1996 Census rural means living in small towns, villages and other places with populations of less than 1,000 (Statistics Canada 1996). Only Prince Edward Island and the Northwest Territories have a higher percentage of their population living in rural areas. By comparison, 22% of Quebecois and 17% of Ontarians live in rural areas. Even provinces with considerable activity in the areas of farming, fishing and agriculture have a greater proportion of urban dwellers. For example, the rural population of Manitoba is 28%, Saskatchewan 37%, British Columbia 18% and Newfoundland 43%.
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SIPP The Scholar Series Spring 2002
(Saskatchewan Institute of Public Policy, 2002-04-10) Rushton, Michael
Public Funding of Artistic Creation: Some Hard Questions
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SIPP Policy Dialogue Number 5 September 2002
(Saskatchewan Institute of Public Policy, 2002-09) Geisbauer, Andrea; Blake, Raymond; Pearson, Erna; Allan, John; Whyte, John; Wardhaugh, Robert; Green, Joyce; Oliver, Lynn
Hear our Voices 1; Director’s Notes 2; Upcoming Events, Research in the Works, and Make a Note 3; Constantly Evolving with SIPP Initiatives 4; The Scholar Series - Expert Material, No Tuition 4; Value-for-Money in K-12 Education Revisited 5; SIPP Membership - What’s in it for you? What’s in it for SIPP? 6; Information, Communication, and Technology Literacy 7; Good Morning, Saskatchewan Institute of Public Policy 8;
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SIPP Briefing Note Issue 1 December 2002
(Saskatchewan Institute of Public Policy, 2002-12) Peykov, Pavel
Choice in Automobile Insurance: Tort vs. No Fault Coverage