scholarly journals Federal Government Task Force on Labour Relations

2005 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 130-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. D. Woods
Keyword(s):  
Federal Government ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Task Force ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
Labour Relations ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Mcgill University ◽  
The Creation

In December 1966, Prime Minister Pearson announced the creation of a Task Force on Labour Relations. Under the chairmanship of H.D. Woods, Dean, Faculty of Arts and Science, McGill University, Montréal, the members are: Gérard Dion, Professor, Department of Industrial Relations, Laval University, Québec; John H.G. Crispo, Director, Centre for Industrial Relations, University of Toronto; A.W.R. Carrothers, Dean, Faculty of Law, University of Western Ontario.

scholarly journals Next Industrial Relations Conferences in Canadian Universities

2005 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 572-574
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Relations ◽  
Canadian Universities ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Mcgill University ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University ◽  
Labour Management

In the following months, two Industrial Relations Centers of Canadian Universities will hold their Industrial Relations Conference. At McGill University, September 9th and 10th, will be studied the problem of Canadian autonomy in Labour-Management Relations under the title of DOMINATION OR INDEPENDANCE? The Center of the University of Toronto is organizing its founding Conference, October 13-15. The subject is INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS IN THE NEXT DECADE: CHALLENGES AND RESPONSES. Here are the programs.

‘They used Americana, all painted and polished, to make the enormous impression they did’: selling the Reagan revolution through the 1984 Olympic Games1

2018 ◽  
pp. 223-242
Author(s):  
Umberto Tulli
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Federal Government ◽  
Reagan Administration ◽  
Task Force ◽  
The Political ◽  
Security Measures ◽  
White House ◽  
The World ◽  
The Creation

The chapter aims at investigating the role of the Reagan administration in organizing the Games. Contrary to previous understanding, which tend to dismiss federal government involvment in the organization of the Games, it will highlight the political and diplomatic actions undertaken by the Reagan administration to organize a perfect edition of the Olympics and to sell the world reaganism through the Los Angeles Games. Since the creation of an Olympic task force within the White House, the Los Angeles Games were perceived as a showcase on Ronald Reagan's America. The task force immediately concluded that the federal government would act behind the scenes, providing all the necessary security measures for the LAOOC and the Games, coordinating diplomatic actions and looking over consular practices. Tasks increased when the Soviets announced their boycott: the White House defined a clear damage-limiting strategy. In its conclusions, the chapter will discuss a sort of paradox: the Reagan administration was increasingly involved in the promotion of what it presented as a government-free edition of the Olympics.

Executive Styles in Canada: Cabinet Structures and Leadership Practices in Canadian Government

2006 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 183-184
Author(s):  
Geoff Martin
Keyword(s):  
Federal Government ◽  
Leadership Practices ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
House Of Commons ◽  
Institute Of Public Administration ◽  
Canadian Government ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Minority Government ◽  
Canadian Provinces ◽  
Provincial Politics

Executive Styles in Canada: Cabinet Structures and Leadership Practices in Canadian Government, Luc Bernier, Keith Brownsey and Michael Howlett, eds., Toronto: University of Toronto Press, for The Institute of Public Administration of Canada, 2005, pp. xiii, 282.Executive Styles in Canada is a welcome addition to the literature on Canadian political leadership and provincial politics, essentially raising the question of the power of the premier, central agencies, and executive council in each of the Canadian provinces. To this end the editors have organized the book in 13 chapters. The book begins with a survey of the whole debate over “court government” raised by Donald Savoie, and the development model of Canadian cabinets advanced by Stefan Dupré and Christopher Dunn. The second chapter is given over to Savoie to make his case with respect to the federal government. His argument, by now familiar, is that by the 1990s the real power in the federal government is in the hands of the “prime minister and a small group of carefully selected courtiers” (17). Executive dominance of the legislature in the Westminster model has given way to even greater centralization. Power flows not from ministers, but from the prime minister. While Savoie does not address the seeming anomaly of the Paul Martin minority government of 2004–05, in which the House of Commons and even the opposition parties suddenly became relevant again, one gets the sense that he would argue that this is a temporary development rather than a more durable departure from the direction of the last 30 years.

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