“…While their methods of analyzing data (and research goals) differ, positivist-oriented scholars also tend to make use of interpretivist methods to access data: that is, observing/participating, interviewing, and reading documents. 2 Studies of discrete reforms, including to policy instruments, examine income maintenance in Saskatchewan (Daigneault, 2015), contributory pensions in Ontario (Christensen, 2020), schools in Ontario (Thompson and Wallner, 2011), federal product risk regulation (Kiss, 2014), protection of water resources in Alberta (Heinmiller, 2013), climate change instruments in Alberta (Boyd, 2019), grain marketing (Skogstad and Whyte, 2015) and processes for developing energy resources in some provinces (Hoberg and Phillips, 2011;Martens et al, 2015). 3 See monographs on Quebec's social economy (Arsenault, 2018), the social and economic policies of Quebec and Ontario (Haddow, 2015), national policies with respect to assisted reproductive technologies (Scala, 2019), early childhood education and care in British Columbia (L. Pasolli, 2015), immigration (Gaucher, 2018), multiculturalism (McCoy, 2018, primary and secondary education (Wallner, 2014), provincial energy resource development (Clancy, 2011;Urquhart, 2018), national (Doern et al, 2015) and provincial (Carter, 2020;Winfield, 2012) environmental protection, and national climate change policy (Macdonald, 2020).…”