POLI 371 Study Guide - Final Guide: Industrial Policy, Canadian Federalism, National-Social Association
19 Jan 2016
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Free-trade federalism: negotiating the canadian agreement on internal trade (ait) The underlying logic of this chapter is that three main developments were cumulatively under way in the 198-s and early 1990s. The first is the relative decline of regional-industrial policy ideas and practices. The second is the aggressive ascendency of trade policy. And the third is the defensive reaction of the federal-provincial policy process in the face of not only the first two developments, but also the very public failures in achieving constitutional renewal through the. Regional policy set by the federal government has been primarily associated with the use of federal grants to help remove disparities among regions. But the provinces, also practiced such policies for some of their intraprovincial regions. Industrial policy tends to have somewhat a longer history. As the ait agenda began to emerge, the regional paradigm and its various versions of addressing and reducing regional disparity increasingly came under attack .
