Minding The Public Purse : The Fiscal Crisis, Political Trade-Offs, And Canada's Future

An account of Canadian fiscal policy and intergovernmental finance during the debt and deficit crises of the 1990s. Drawing on her experience as Saskatchewan's minister of Finance under Premier Roy Romanow, MacKinnon combines political memoir with an examination of provincial and federal responses to mounting public debt. The work discusses relations between provincial finance ministers and the federal government, the budgetary reforms associated with Paul Martin, and the implications of fiscal restraint for health care, social programs, and the Canadian federation.

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