Internationalization and Canadian Agriculture: Policy and Governing Paradigms

by Grace Skogstad

Overview

In recent decades, Canada's agricultural industry, one of the world's largest, has had to adjust to global trade developments such as the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the World Trade Organization. Internationalization and Canadian Agriculture examines the patterns of continuity and change in Canadian agricultural policy making in important areas like farm income support programs, prairie grain marketing, supply management, animal and food product safety, and the regulation of genetically modified crops and foods.

Arguing that the effects of internationalization have been mediated by Canada's political institutional framework, Grace Skogstad demonstrates how the goals and strategies of authoritative political actors in Canada's federal and parliamentary systems have been decisive to policy developments. Skogstad details the interaction between agriculture and the political economy of Canada, shows how international and domestic trade shape Canadian agricultural policies, and argues that while agricultural programs have changed, the post-war state assistance agricultural paradigm has persisted.

A thorough political analysis and history of late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century Canadian agricultural policy and policy-making, Internationalization of Canadian Agriculture is an important contribution to political economy and public policy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781442693043
Publisher:	University of Toronto Press
Publication date:	09/06/2008
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	352
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Grace Skogstad is a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix

Abbreviations xi

1 Introduction: Internationalization and Canadian Agriculture: Policy and Governing Paradigms 3

2 The State Assistance Paradigm and Canadian Agriculture: Construction and Destabilization 43

3 Farm Income Safety Nets and Risk Management 71

4 The Canadian Wheat Board and Orderly Marketing 107

5 Supply Management: Resisting Internationalization and Adjusting Policy Instruments 141

6 Regulating Food and Animal Product Safety 179

7 Regulating the Risks of Genetically Modified Crops and Foods 209

8 Conclusion: Paradigm Adjustment and Canadian Agriculture and Food 241

Appendices 261

Notes 267

References 321

Index 365