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Follow up to March 30th discussion: A deeper dive into fiscal federalism….Professor Jennifer Wallner mentioned the following resources in her discussion at the March 30th meeting on Fiscal Federalism and Equalization Policy in Canada, a book written by Daniel Boland and others:
- the October 2020Institute for Research on Public Policy (IRPP) report by Kyle Hanniman, “Strenthening Canada’s Fiscal Resilience”
- Trevor Tombe, University of Calgary. Great source of research and analysis on fiscal federalism, including recent work on post-COVID federal-provincial landscape for the Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations Commission (Tombe and Béland sit on the steering committee)
By Daniel Beland and others
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Fiscal Federalism and Equalization Policy in Canada aims to increase public understanding of equalization and fiscal federalism by providing a comparative and multidisciplinary perspective on the history, politics, and economics of equalization policy in Canada. The authors provide a brief history, an analysis of the politics of equalization as witnessed over the last fifteen years, and a discussion of key economic debates concerning the role of the program and its effects. They also explore the relationship between equalization and other components of fiscal federalism, particularly the Canada Health Transfer and the Canada Social Transfer. The result is an analysis that draws from the best scholarship available in the fields of economics, economic history, political science, political sociology, and public policy.
