Summary
This collection seeks to clarify the nature, causes, and dynamics of levels of regulatory governance in, or affecting, Canada, and contribute to the debate over what kinds of principles and institutional approaches can resolve the problems of multi-level regulatory governance. Contributors consider various sectors where rule-making spans all or most of the four levels of jurisdiction - international, federal, provincial, and city or local - in areas such as food safety, investment and trade, forestry, drinking water, oil and gas, and emergency management. A central argument of the collection is that the pressure to merge, collapse or rationalize levels of regulation is mainly driven by business interests, liberalized trade ideas, and related technological changes. Economic concerns about Canada's declining productivity compared to the U.S. are also discussed, as are issues of security, terrorism, and core business and economic concerns in the post-911 era.
Contents
1. Multilevel regulatory governance: concepts, context, and key issues / G. Bruce Doern & Robert Johnson. -- 2. Risks and rewards: the case for accelerating Canada-U.S. regulatory Cooperation / Michael Hart. -- 3. Regulatory policy: the potential for common federal-provincial-territorial-policies on regulation / Robert Johnson. -- 4. Federal 'related science activities' and multilevel regulation / G. Bruce Doern. -- 5. Still between a rock and a hard place: local government autonomy and regulation / Christopher Stoney. -- 6. Balancing acts: multilevel regulation of Canada's voluntary sector / Susan D. Phillips. -- 7. Multilevel regulatory governance of food safety: a work in progress / Grace Skogstad. -- 8. Investment, trade, and growth: multilevel regulatory regimes in Canada / Geoffrey Hale & Christopher Kekecha. -- 9. Forest-Sector regulation and communities / Karine Levasseur & Stephanie Paterson. -- 10. Intergovernmental regulation and municipal drinking water / Carey Hill & Kathryn Harrison. -- 11. Municipal wastewater effluent and multilevel regulatory governance / Jen Sulkers. -- 12. The Alberta oilpatch: multilevel regulation transformed / Keith Brownsey. -- 13. Multilevel regulatory governance in the Health Sector / Joan Murphy. -- 14. Regulating risk: an assessment of Canada's multilevel emergency management framework / Phil Graham & Christopher Stoney. -- 15. Conclusions / G. Bruce Doern & Robert Johnson.