Dilemmas of Solidarity : : Rethinking Distribution in the Canadian Federation / / ed. by Sujit Choudhry, Jean-Francois Gaudreault-Desbiens, Lorne Sossin.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Boothe, Katherine,; Boothe, Paul,; Choudhry, Sujit,; Duff, David G.,; Gaudreault-Desbiens, Jean-François,; Lajoie, Andrée,; Noël, Alain,; Russell, Peter H.,; Simeon, Richard,; Sossin, Lorne,; Vaillancourt, François,; Weinstock, Daniel M.,
• HerausgeberIn: Choudhry, Sujit,; Gaudreault-Desbiens, Jean-Francois,; Sossin, Lorne,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)

Since the rise of the Canadian welfare state in the aftermath of the Second World War, the politics of social policy and fiscal federalism have been at the centre of federal-provincial relations. Recent events have given impetus for scholars to re-examine these issues. In 2002, the Quebec Commission on Fiscal Imbalance released its report, which introduced the term 'vertical fiscal imbalance' into the vocabulary of Canadian politics. Essentially, the commission determined that a disjunction between revenue-raising capacity and expenditures involving different orders of government - vertical fiscal imbalance - was an urgent problem that must be addressed. Dilemmas of Solidarity is both a reflection on and response to that finding.Editors Sujit Choudhry, Jean-Francois Graudreault-Desbiens, and Lorne Sossin bring together an array of respected legal and political scholars to reflect on the Quebec Commission's findings. The contributors to this volume illustrate how recent debates surrounding Canada's equalization program suggest alternative ways to approach the issue. The goal of Dilemmas of Solidarity is to stand back from the particulars of different policy debates, to enable scholars to reflect on basic questions regarding redistribution. This fascinating collection will undoubtedly inform a more nuanced and wide-ranging debate both among academics and policy practitioners than has occurred in this past. Contributors:Paul BootheKatherine Boothe Sujit ChoudhryDavid DuffJean-Francois Gaudreault-DesBiensAndree LajoieAlain NoelPeter H. RussellRichard SimeonLorne SossinFrançois VaillancourtDaniel Weinstock.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Exploring the Dilemmas of Solidarity -- Part One: Social Justice and the Politics of Redistribution -- Social Justice: Does Federalism Make a Difference? -- Redistribution in the Canadian Federation: The Impact of the Cities Agenda and the New Canada -- Social Justice in Overlapping Sharing Communities -- Part Two: Taxation and the Search for Redistribution -- Personal Income Tax and Redistribution in the Canadian Federation -- Taxation, Redistribution, and Fiscal Federalism -- Is Vertical Equity a Virtuous End ? -- Personal Income Tax, Redistribution and Fiscal Federalism in Canada: Some Observations -- Part Three: The Spending Power and the Constitutional Architecture of Redistribution -- The Federal Spending Power and Fiscal Imbalance in Canada -- Liberty and Overlapping Federalism -- Fiscal Federalism: Not Resolvable by Constitutional Law -- The Irreducible Federal Necessity of Jurisdictional Autonomy, and the Irreducibility of Federalism to Jurisdictional Autonomy -- Afterword: Solidarity as the Boldness of Modesty -- Contributors