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Title of Lecture: The New Federalism

Collaborative, bilateral, networked, and open: over the past decade, each has been offered as a description of the ‘new federalism’.  Now entering the second decade of the 21st century, there are a range of factors and developments that seem poised to determine the course and character of the Canadian federation, with varying implications for governments, regions and citizens. Amongst these are questions about the future role of the federal spending power, the impact of post-stimulus fiscal restraint, the progress of contested and partial senate reform, the continued rise of global city regions as engines of the economy, the growing importance and impending clash of energy and environmental policies, and the further implementation of functional and symbolic asymmetry.

James Bickerton is Professor of Political Science at St. Francis Xavier University. He also has taught at Carleton University (1981-83) and Simon Fraser University (1999) where he was a Visiting Professor in 1999. In 1991-92, he was a Visiting Scholar at Cornell University, and the University of Victoria in 2006.

After obtaining an Honours BA from Acadia University, he received both his Masters and Ph.D. degrees from Carleton University in Ottawa. His Ph.D. dissertation was on regional development policy in Canada. Since that time his research has been in the areas of regional development, federalism, party and electoral politics, and Nova Scotia politics. He has recently begun to do research on Canadian nationalism. He is author of Nova Scotia, Ottawa and the Politics of Regional Development (1990), and co-author of Freedom, Equality, Community (2006), Canadian Politics (2004), The Savage Years (2000), The Almanac of Canadian Politics (1995) and Ties That Bind: Parties and Voters in Canada (1999).