Canadian Federalism and International Environmental Policy Making: The Case of Climate Change
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Authors
Smith, Heather A.
Date
1998
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working paper
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en
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"Bold environmental internationalism"' has been used to describe Canada's international environmental diplomacy. This label may apply to early Canadian initiatives in the area of climate change in the late 1980s but one would be hard pressed to assign that label to the apparent fumbling surrounding more recent Canadian diplomacy on climate change. The early boldness was more rhetorical than substantive. Canadian climate change policy has been both difficult to develop and to implement. While it will be seen that a host of factors affect the development and implementation of Canadian climate change policy and that the domestic and international are intertwined, the primary focus here will be on intergovernmental relations. The central question posed is: what affect have intergov-emmental relations had on Canadian climate change policy from 1988 to the present?
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© 1998 IIGR, Queen's University
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Queen's University Institute of Intergovernmental Relations