After years of pension policy drift in a broader context of global austerity, the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) was enhanced for the first time in 2016 to expand benefits for Canadian workers. This article examines Ontario's central role in these reforms. The deteriorating condition of workplace plans, coupled with rising retirement income insecurity across the province's labour force, generated new sources of negative feedback at the provincial level, fuelling Ontario's campaign for CPP reform beginning in the late 2000s. The political limits of policy drift and layering at the provincial level is considered in relationship to policy making at the national level. As shown, a new period of pension politics emerged in Canada after 2009, in which the historical legacy of CPP's joint governance structure led to a dynamic of “collusive benchmarking,” shaped in large part by political efforts of the Ontario government, leading to CPP enhancement.
The full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-pro t purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders. Building the New Canadian Political Economy: Oral histories of an intellectual community in the 1960s and 1970sBy Chris Hurl and Benjamin Christensen Abstract:Since the late-1960s, the New Canadian Political Economy (NCPE) has played an important role in shaping the trajectory of the social sciences in Canada and informing the political goals and strategies of a range of progressive social movements. However, there have been few studies that have attempted to trace the history of the NCPE as a distinctive intellectual tradition or account for its place in consolidating a left political milieu in Canada outside of Quebec. Exploring the NCPE as a part of a wider left formation, this article examines the role played by organic intellectuals in building this tradition. Drawing from eleven oral history interviews and archival analysis, we begin by locating these intellectuals in the disciplinary struggles unfolding within social science departments through this period. We then explore how, working through networks between the academy and progressive social movements, intellectuals were able to consolidate a space for the revitalization of this approach. Beyond simply acting as purveyors of new ideas, we argue that these intellectuals also played a vital role in establishing the institutional foundations -in texts, seminars, and meeting roomsthrough which the NCPE took shape as both an academic discipline and political discourse.
The implementation of the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement (CUSFTA) in January 1989 marked a decisive moment in the rise of neoliberalism as a political project in Canada. While the left, and socialist political economists in particular, played a central role in galvanizing the agreement and contributed in no small part to the demise of the Conservative government in 1993, the free trade agenda continued to move forward through the 1990s. This Special Issue revisits the history of struggles against free trade in Canada with two aims in mind: first to remember the coalitions through which opposition was organized, the mobilization of socialist critiques by activists and intellectuals, and the key events leading up to the adoption of the agreement. Second, drawing from this history to make sense of how things have changed over the past 30 years, as right-wing nationalists have increasingly taken the lead in opposing free trade, while neoliberals have sought to rebrand their project as ‘progressive’. How can those on the left effectively confront the project of free trade today while at the same time challenging both far-right nationalism and neoliberal globalization?
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