NOTES
- Efforts at deepening the cross-border relationship likely will be driven by political, bureaucratic, and/or economic elites. Public opinion is important in the overall success of such elite strategies to the degree that it is more or less permissive of, or resistant to, such initiatives
- As outlined more fully below, the paper focuses, as a result of the nature of the relationship between social policy and bilateral relations, on the prospects for deepening the bilateral relationship rather than the day to day management of relations
- Allan Gotlieb, “Protecting Canada's Eggs in the US Basket,” Policy Options 25, no. 9 (October 2004): 7; David Dodge, “Economic Integration in North America,” Couchiching Conference, 2003. www.bankofcanada.ca/en/speeches/2003/sp03–11.htm; George Haynal, “The Next Plateau in North America: What's the Big Idea?” Policy Options, June-July 2004
- For a discussion, see Gerard W. Boychuk, “Redistribution, Social Protection and North American Linkages: Social Policy Distinctiveness under Increased Labour Mobility,” in Richard G. Harris and Thomas Lemieux, ed., Social and Labour Market Aspects of North American Linkages. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, forthcoming
- For a brief review of this literature, see Gerard W. Boychuk and Keith G. Banting, “Converging and Diverging Paradoxes: National and Sub-National Variation in Income Maintenance Programs in Canada and the United States,” in Richard G. Harris, ed., North American Linkages: Opportunities and Challenges for Canada (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2004.)
- Michael Hart and Brian Tomlin, “The Emerging Shift in Canada–U.S. Relations,” 46–69 in G. Bruce Doern, ed., How Ottawa Spends, 2004–2005: Mandate Change in the Paul Martin Era (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2004), 63
- See, for example, Rick Salutin, “Are We Trying to Bug Them?” Globe and Mail 11 July 2003, A17
- Pat Buchanan, Buchanan and Press, MSNBC, 31 October 2002
- Martin Lawrence, “Good News, Canucks, the Neigbourhood's Improving.” Globe and Mail, 8 July 2004, A15
- Jeffrey Stacey, “Letter from America,” Policy Options 25, no. 9 (October 2004): 41
- Republican Party, 2004: 13, 26, 28. In contrast, the Democratic platform only included a single reference to Canada in regards to the need for the U.S. to develop infrastructure in order to take advantage of supplies of energy from Canada. Democratic Party, 2004, 15. References to Canada on the Democratic Party website during the election included, in addition to repeatedly mentioning the issue of drug importation, the inadequacy of security along the Canada–U.S. border and calls to reinstate the ban on beef products from Canada (in addition to the continuing ban on the important of live animals). Finally, Kerry also attempted to focus attention on the issue of Canadian garbage stating that “It's time to end Canadian trash dumping in Michigan….” CBC News Online, “U.S. Elections 2004: Issues of Interest to Canadians,” 19 October 2004
- For an overview, see Hart and Tomlin, 52–5
- Hart and Tomlin, 61, 59. For an overview of these indicators, see 59–62
- The exception is the development of private clinics in Quebec. However, it appears that the federal government is relatively willing to tolerate Quebec diverging from the model which the federal government continually is attempting to enforce on other provinces
- National Post, “Does Canada Have a Conservative Party?” 11 November 2004
- Jeffrey Simpson, Globe and Mail, 6 November 2004
- For example, the introduction of incentives for choosing privately-provided managed-care options under Medicare (alongside the extension of public insurance coverage for pharmaceuticals) has been argued to be the thin edge of the wedge in the privatization of Medicare. Similar arguments are likely to emerge in regard to proposals to allow individuals to invest small portions of their Social Security contributions in private retirement investment plans—a central element of the Bush agenda following the 2004 elections
- Jim VandeHei and Dana Milbank, “2nd Term Agenda Will Need Means,” Washington Post, 4 November 2004, A32
- Ibid
- Ibid
- Jeffrey Simpson, Globe and Mail, 6 November 2004