Government of Canada

About: Government of Canada is a government organization based out in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Monetary policy & Debt. The organization has 796 authors who have published 886 publications receiving 21366 citations. The organization is also known as: federal government of Canada & Her Majesty's Government.

Introduction of Formal Child Care Services in Inuit Communities and Labour Force Outcomes

Abstract: We study the impacts of the introduction of formal child care services in 28 Inuit communities in Canada’s North. We use geographical variation in the timing of the introduction of child care servi...

National and Coordinated Approaches to Securities Regulation: The Latest Initiatives in Historical Context

Abstract: If securities regulation is any indication, few countries in the world take their federalism as seriously as Canada does. Notwithstanding an increasingly globalised world, the central reality of Canadian federalism will continue to influence the enactment and enforcement of effective capital markets regulation. In the latest development, on September 8, 2014 the federal government and four participating provinces announced draft legislation, including a new uniform provincial act and new federal legislation, to establish a new Cooperative Capital Markets Regulator (CCMR). Some provinces are strongly opposed, including Quebec, which has promised to challenge the proposed regime on constitutional grounds. This chapter surveys Canadian efforts at nationalisation or coordination of securities regulation over the last eight decades. This historical analysis locates current reform efforts in context and compares those efforts, in detail and on the merits, with prior attempts to establish a national or common regulator, statute, or both. The chapter considers the Supreme Court of Canada’s important 2011 decision in Reference re Securities Act, including the question of exactly what it might mean for the federal government to “manage systemic risk” in the capital markets. The chapter then assesses the options available after the Reference, including but not limited to the proposed CCMR, along with the political, administrative and political considerations that will affect any regime going forward. This is a draft chapter in the fifth edition of Securities Regulation in Canada, now forthcoming (2014).As Governor General of Canada, His Excellency David Johnston has refrained from expressing opinions on matters that are currently under public policy discussion. Any views or recommendations on policy changes in this chapter or in the text as a whole are those of Kathleen Rockwell and Cristie Ford, and should not be attributed to His Excellency. As well, the opinions stated here should not be taken to be those of anyone at the Alberta Securities Commission other than Kathleen Rockwell herself.

Are Health Care Prices Rising When Adjusted for Outcomes?Evidence from Heart Attack Treatments in Ontario

Abstract: Increase in medical spending is an issue in all the developed countries and particularly in Canada. However, given that medical technology is evolving rapidly, we do not know whether price or quantity/quality of services is responsible for more of this increase. The objective of this study is to address the issue of measuring health care price in Canada. We estimate two types of price indices: a service price index (SPI), which prices specific medical services without any adjustment for health outcomes, and a cost-of-living index (COLI), which measures an outcome- adjusted cost of treating a specific health problem. These indices are applied to Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI - or heart attack) treatment for the period 1995/96 and 2001/02, with cost data provided by the Ontario Case Costing Initiative (OCCI) and mortality data obtained from the Discharge Abstract Database. While we estimate a positive real annual change in AMI treatment price for the SPI, the real COLI fell about 1.0 percent per year under our benchmark assumption on the value of life, without even considering the quality of life of AMI patients.

The demand for local political autonomy: an individualistic theory

Abstract: In recent years several social scientists interested in the public sector have reaped considerable analytical returns from the theory of elites. For example, Albert Breton (1964, 1966) has put forward an interesting hypothesis which explains why even a power elite (of the sort described for Canada in Porter, 1965) might rationally expand public expenditures even though they will have to pay for them, at least in part, and the expenditures will benefit most directly those groups which are not themselves included in the power structure. In a social system organized along elite lines one might in principle expect the preferences of the more powerful groups to be reflected in both revenue and expenditure patterns; for example, in the low-cost (even free!) provision of higher education for the scions of the upper-income groups. Breton suggests, however, that the controlling groups may also desire certain "public goods" such as industrialization or nationalism, perhaps because these "goods" carry with them a secure and expanding role-and hence substantial

Distribution and persistence of carbaryl in some terrestrial and aquatic components of a forest environment

Abstract: An oil‐based formulation of carbaryl (1‐naphthyl N‐methyl‐carbamate) (Sevin‐2‐Oil) was applied twice by a fixed‐wing aircraft at a dosage rate of 280 g of A.I./ha/application to a coniferous forest near Allardville, New Brunswick. The highest concentrations of the chemical in fir foliage, litter and forest soil 1 h after application were respectively 4.20, 1.21 and 0.59 ppm (fresh weight). The residues dissipated rapidly and the DT50 values obtained from the depletion curves were 2.3 d for foliage and 1.5 d for litter and soil samples. Very low levels (<0.1 ppm) of carbaryl persisted in foliage and litter beyond the 10 d sampling period. The maximum residue level found in stream water was 0.314 ppm and more than 50% of it had dissipated within 1 h. Low but detectable levels (0.001 ppm) of the chemical persisted in water until the end of the 10 d sampling period. Sediment samples contained a maximum level of 0.04 ppm, which dissipated below the detection limit within 5 h. Brook trout and slimy scu...