Description
Book SynopsisManaging Federalism through Pandemic summarizes and analyses multiple policy dimensions of Canada’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic and related policy issues from the perspective of Canadian federalism. Contributors address the relative effectiveness of intergovernmental cooperation at the summit level and in policy fields including emergency management, public health, national security, Indigenous Peoples and governments, border governance, crisis communications, fiscal federalism, income security policies (CERB), supply chain resilience, and interacting energy and climate policies.
Despite serious policy failures of individual governments, repeated fluctuations in the overall effectiveness of pandemic management, and growing public frustration across provinces and regions, contributors show how processes for intergovernmental cooperation adapted reasonably well to the pandemic’s unprecedented stresses, particularly at the outset. The book concludes
Table of Contents
List of Figures List of Tables Acronyms and Abbreviations Acknowledgments Part One: Introduction 1. Pandemic Federalism: Bridging the Normative–Functional Federalism Gap Kathy L. Brock and Geoffrey Hale 2. Cooperative Federalism and Managing Intergovernmental Relations through the Pandemic: Setting the Framework Kathy L. Brock Part Two: Anticipating and Managing the Pandemic Response 3. Coordinating Emergency Management within and across Governments Johanu Botha and Geoffrey Hale 4. COVID-19 Federalism and Public Health Regimes in Canada Carey Doberstein 5. Global Pandemics and National Security: Will the Federal Government Have Your Back? Andrew Graham and Eugene Lang 6. What We Have Here Is a Failure to Anticipate (Again!): Indigenous Peoples, Self-Determination, and Canada’s COVID-19 Pandemic Response Yale D. Belanger and Calvin Hanselmann 7. Canada–US Border Governance during the COVID-19 Pandemic Kathryn Friedman and Laurie Trautman 8. Pandemic Communications: How Leaders Encouraged Canadians to Stay the Blazes Home Jeni Armstrong and Alex Marland Part Three: Economic and Social Issues: Responses, Reopenings, Relaunching, and Rebuilding 9. Pandemic Fiscal Federalism and Future Prospects Kyle Hanniman 10. Interactions between Federal and Provincial Cash Transfer Programs: The Effect of the Canada Emergency Response Benefit on Provincial Income Assistance Eligibility and Benefits Gillian Petit and Lindsay M. Tedds 11. Globalization, Federalism, and Supply Chain Security Patrick James and Geoffrey Hale 12. A Crisis within a Crisis: Canadian Energy and Climate Federalism during the Pandemic Brendan Boyd Part Four: Lessons for the Federation from the Pandemic 13. Crises, Mega-Crises, and Beyond: The Evolving and Functions of Intergovernmental Units in Federal Governance Systems Evert Lindquist 14. Pandemic Federalism: Bridging the Normative–Functional Federalism Gap – Conclusions and Continuing Challenges Kathy L. Brock and Geoffrey Hale References List of Contributors Index
