Over the past thirty-five years, Canada’s provinces and territories have undergone significant political changes. Abandoning mid-century Keynesian policies, governments of all political persuasions have turned to deregulation, tax reduction, and government downsizing as policy solutions for a wide range of social and economic issues. Transforming Provincial Politics is the first province-by-province analysis of politics and political economy in more than a decade, and the first to directly examine the turn to neoliberal policies at the provincial and territorial level.

Featuring chapters written by experts in the politics of each province and territory, Transforming Provincial Politics examines how neoliberal policies have affected politics in each jurisdiction. A comprehensive and accessible analysis of the issues involved, this collection will be welcomed by scholars, instructors, and anyone interested in the state of provincial politics today.

Introduction: Neoliberal Transformations
The Transformation of Provincial Politics: The Political Economy of Canada’s Provinces and Territories in a Neoliberal Era (Bryan Evans and Charles W. Smith)

Part One: Resistance and Neoliberal Restructuring in Atlantic Canada

Newfoundland and Labrador, 1979–2011: Contradiction and Continuity in a Neoliberal era (Sean T. Cadigan)

Politics on Prince Edward Island: Plus ça change… (Peter McKenna)

Nova Scotia: Fiscal Crisis and Party System Transition (Peter Clancy)

The Political Economy of New Brunswick: Selling New Brunswick Power (Don Desserud)

Part Two: Neoliberalism and the Decline of Central Canada

Québec Nationalism and Québec Politics from Left to Right (Peter Graefe)

The Transformation of Ontario Politics: The Long Assent of Neoliberalism (Bryan Evans and Charles W. Smith)

Part Three: Neoliberalism and the “New” West

The Politics of Inoculation in Manitoba: Sustaining Electoral Success through the Third Way (Byron Sheldrick)

Saskatchewan: From Cradle of Social Democracy to Neoliberalism’s Sandbox (Aidan D. Conway and J.F. Conway)

The Politics of Alberta’s One-Party State (Steve Patten)

British Columbia: The Neoliberal Politics of Centre-Right Coalition (Dennis Pilon)

Part Four: New Opportunities and Old Problems: The North

Managing the Moraine: Political Economy and Political Culture Approaches to Assessing the Success of Nunavut (Ailsa Henderson and Graham White)

The Northwest Territories: A New Day? (Gabrielle Slowey)

The Yukon: A New Era of First Nations Governance and Intergovernmental Relations (Gabrielle Slowey)

Epilogue: The Transformation of Provincial Societies

Mapping the Neoliberal Transformation in Canada’s Provinces (Bryan Evans and Charles W. Smith)

Edited by Bryan M. Evans and Charles W. Smith