Capacity for Choice : : Canada in a New North America / / ed. by George Hoberg.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Banting, Keith G.,; Gagné, Gilbert,; Gomez, Rafael,; Gunderson, Morley,; Helliwell, John F.,; Hoberg, George,; Kneebone, Ronald,; Lee, Frank C.,; Macdonald, Laura C.,; Messinger, Hans,; Rocher, Frangois,; Rouillard, Christian,; Simeon, Richard,
• HerausgeberIn: Hoberg, George,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Trends Project
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (336 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Figures and Tables --; Preface --; Contributors --; 1. Introduction: Economic, Cultural, and Political Dimensions of North American Integration --; Part One: Economics --; 2. Effects of the FTA on Interprovincial Trade --; 3. Making Macroeconomic Policy in an Integrating North America --; 4. The Integration of Labour Markets in North America --; 5. Checking the Brain Drain 2000 --; Part Two: Culture --; 6. North American Integration and Canadian Culture --; Part Three: Politics --; 7. Governance and State-Society Relations: The Challenges --; 8. Redefining the Locus of Power --; 9. The Scope for Domestic Choice: Policy Autonomy in a Globalizing World --; 10. Conclusion: Capacity for Choice --; Bibliography
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781442672697; 9783110490954
• DOI: 10.3138/9781442672697
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by George Hoberg.

Drawing together an interdisciplinary group of scholars, this collection of essays, part of the Trends Project of the Government of Canada, examines North American integration and its potential future impact on Canadian life. Trends in integration, knowledge gaps, and policy implications are analyzed in eight areas: trade, the labour market, the brain drain, macroeconomics, federalism, social welfare, the environment, and culture.The contributors argue the consequences of continental integration have not been as formidable as widely believed. While some policy instruments have been surrendered in exchange for access to larger markets and pressures for harmonization have probably increased, Canada still retains significant room to maneuver, even in areas of policy most affected by growing economic integration. The most severe constraints imposed by globalization may be more in the mind than in a reality that is enormously complex and ambiguous. Canada has formidable capacities for domestic policy choices in a wide range of sectors. It is up to Canadians and their elected officials to chose how to exercise that freedom of choice.