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Carbon Province, Hydro Province is a major contribution to both academic understanding and the vital question of how our federal and provincial governments can effectively work together, and thereby, for the first time, achieve a Canadian climate-change target.
List of contents
A Parable of West and East
1. Introduction
1.1 Subject
1.2 Purpose
1.3 Methodology
1.4 Theoretical approach
1.5 Format
2. Energy and climate change intergovernmental relations
2.1 Historical evolution of Canadian intergovernmental relations
2.2 Mechanisms of Canadian intergovernmental relations
2.3 A flawed policy making process
2.4 Intergovernmental policy co-ordination
2.5 Energy and climate change jurisdiction
2.6 Energy and climate-change policy co-ordination
2.7 Federal government energy and climate-change strategy
3. Historical overview: Canadian energy and climate politics
3.1 Energy policy 1867 to 1989
3.2 National climate change policy in the 1990s
3.3 The Martin government
3.4 Public opinion on climate change
3.5 The Harper government
3.6 Provincial climate change policies
3.7 Energy policy 1989 to 2019
3.8 The Justin Trudeau government
3.9 Summary
4. Three underlying challenges
4.1 The West-East divide
. Differing fossil fuel energy interests
. Differing interests respecting climate change policy
. Alberta's planned emission increases undercut reductions elsewhere
. Western alienation
4.2 The inherent need to allocate greenhouse gas emission reductions
4.3 The weak intergovernmental process
5. Canadian national energy policy, 1973 - 1981
5.1 Narrative
5.2 Analysis
6. The first national climate change process 1990-1997
6.1 Narrative
6.2 Analysis
7. The second national climate change process 1998 - 2002
7.1 Narrative
7.2 Analysis
8. The Canadian Energy Strategy 2005-2015
8.1 Narrative
8.2 Analysis
9. The Pan-Canadian Framework 2015-2019
9.1 Narrative
9.2 Analysis
10. Drawing lessons
10.1 The three challenges and federal strategy
10.2 Factors affecting case outcomes
11. Putting in place an effective national climate change program
About the author
By Douglas Macdonald
Summary
Carbon Province, Hydro Province is a major contribution to both academic understanding and the vital question of how our federal and provincial governments can effectively work together, and thereby, for the first time, achieve a Canadian climate-change target.
