Political Science Prof and Laurier Research Chair | Federalism/Multilevel Governance | Political Economy | (Active) Transportation and Infrastructure Policy | Kitchener/Waterloo Region
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Jörg Broschek 🇨🇦
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Our 13 year old tells me kids being more frequently warned by police officers that they did not make a hard stop at Stop signs on their bikes ("next time parents get a ticket").
I hope Kitchener’s city councillors who opposed ASE in school zones consider this also as “punitive and unreasonable”.
Parochial federalism.
We already have too many federalism labels, but not sure how to better capture these patterns.
As expected indeed. "Cooperative federalism" in rhetoric, "competitive federalism" in practice.
How to "do" cooperative federalism, for example.
An excellent "deep dive" article on Canadian federalism by Swiss journalist Benjamin von Wyl - worth reading.
www.swissinfo.ch/eng/global-e...
A good contribution with one shortcoming: Like many, Coyne exclusively focuses on the centralization-decentralization axis while completely ignoring the second (probably more important) dimension of federalism: unilateralism-cooperation.
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Something for the PM to consider for his next Forward Guidance video.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Ottawa's industrial strategy is here to help. Harold Innis, alive and kicking.
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
Charles Breton & Andrew Parkin: Grievances in Alberta: how deep, how broad? policyoptions.irpp.org/2026/06/albe...
@cbreton.bsky.social @parkinac.bsky.social @policyoptions.irpp.org
The question remains if (or: to what extent and in what respect) there are substantial differences between the federal government’s Fortress North America approach one the one hand, Ontario’s Fortress North America approach on the other hand.
