Pulling Against Gravity: Economic Development in New Brunswick During the McKenna YearsIn Pulling Against Gravity Donald Savoie, one of Canada's foremost authorities on regional public policy, offers a sweeping overview of the policy challenges faced by Frank McKenna as New Brunswick premier in the 1980s and 1990s. He documents McKenna's attempts at affecting changes that went to the very core of the province's economic and social life. Set against this backdrop, Pulling Against Gravity assesses the successes and failures of the McKenna years and beyond. This study is a must-read for students of federalism and all concerned about the future of Canada's Atlantic region. |
Contents
Foreword | |
Introduction and Overview 1 | |
Pulling Against Gravity 15 | |
Population Growth Rates in the Maritimes and Canada 18511931 22 | |
Dealing with the Supplicant 37 | |
Regional Distribution of DREE Expenditures 49 | |
Chapter 4 | |
New Brunswick in 1987 63 | |
Budget Data the McKenna Years 111 | |
Cooperation Program Initiatives Signed from October 1987 | |
New Brunswick in 1997 127 | |
Landings by Province of Intended Destination of International | |
Federal Transfers as a Percentage of Provincial Revenues | |
Government Transfers as Percentage of Personal Income 154 | |
Industry Trade Data and Interprovincial | |
Lessons Learned 177 | |
Gross Domestic Products for New Brunswick and Canada 71 | |
Federal Transfers as a Percentage of Provincial Revenues | |
Taking Stock 85 | |
1998 Business Subsidies Per Capita 182 | |
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