How Ottawa spends, 2014-2015 : the Harper government, good to go? / edited by G. Bruce Doern and Christopher Stoney.

"Published for the School of Public Policy and Administration, Carleton University."

Includes bibliographical references.

Preface -- The Harper government : good to go? / G. Bruce Doern and Christopher Stoney -- Government retrenchment and public service cuts / Andrew Rounce and Katherine Levasseur -- The Parliamentary Budget Officer / Ian Lee and Philip Cross -- Crime or punishment / Craig Jones -- Justin Trudeau and leadership idolization / Craig MacNaughton and Christopher Stoney -- Coming full circle? / Evert Lindquist -- Tax expenditures and government program spending / John Lester -- Harper's partisan wedge politics / Glen Toner and Jennifer McKee.

One of these things is not like the other? / Amanda Clarke -- How foundations spend / Iryna Kryvoruchko and Ken Rasmussen -- Managing Canada's water / Davide P. Cargnello [and 3 others] -- The national shipbuilding model for government procurement / Jennifer Spence -- How accurate is the Harper government's misinformation? / Kathryn O'Hara and Paul Dufour -- CIDA, the mining sector, and the orthodoxy of economic conservativism in Harper decision making / Ruby Dagher.

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Examines national politics and related fiscal, economic, and social priorities and policies, with an emphasis on the now long-running Harper-linked Senate scandal and the serious challenges to Harper's leadership and controlling style of attack politics.

English.

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