MGMT 1030 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: War Measures Act, Polymer Corporation
20 Jul 2016
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Outline of borins, world war ii crown corporations: their wartime role and. Peacetime privatization , canadian public administration 25 (3) (1982): pp. Borins outlines that the federal government used the powers of the war measures. Act during the second world war to an unprecedented degree and coordinated the production of essential war supplies through the use of crown corporations: the department of munitions and supply, under the direction of c. d. Howe, was responsible for administering the two different types of crown corporation production and administrative. As the war came to an end, the federal government enacted a policy that would see the majority of crown corporations privatized in the postwar period; only those crown corporations engaged in production of national importance such as. Eldorado mining and polymer corporation remained in government hands. Borins closes his article by looking at two examples of privatization to demonstrate that government policy in this field was not always successful: successful privatization victory aircraft.
