Table of Contents

Contributors 

Canadian Calendar 

Editor’s introduction – the year in review 

Parliament and politics by Robert Everett 

THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF MARTIN 

Flirting with fiasco; May days; Summer reprieve; Final days

COMMISSION OF INQUIRY INTO THE SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM AND ADVERTISING ACTIVITIES

Initial phases; Closing the net; First, fateful report

ELECTION 26 

Parties and platforms; On the trail

NATIONAL INSTITUTIONS 

The cabinet ; House makeover: by-elections, defections, and resignations; The Stronach shock; Legislating switches; Senate; Governor General; Supreme Court; Auditor General’s reports; Ethics commissioner

NATIONAL ECONOMY 

Economic indicators ;  Budget 25 ; A tale of two budgets; Autumn economic update ; Allocation of budget surpluses; Income trusts; Cross-border disputes: softwood lumber, missiles, and marijuana

FEDERAL-PROVINCIAL DYNAMICS 

Atlantic Accord ; Health care

ABORIGINAL AFFAIRS 
The Kelowna accord;  Fiscal and Statistical Management Act 

MAJOR POLICY AREAS 

Same sex marriage;  Greenhouse emissions and Kyoto

PERSONALITIES AND CONTROVERSIES 

Maher Arar inquiry ; The Grewal tapes; David Dingwall and lobbying

Foreign affairs and defence by Christopher Spearin 

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

Human rights and poverty; Canada-Iran relations; Arar Inquiry;

The Khadrs;  Sudan; G-8 Summit; Kidnappings in Iraq; Challenges in Canada-US trade; Beef; Swine  ; Wheat; Softwood lumber; Byrd Amendment; Economic integration; Global warming; Newfoundland and Labrador and the rocket controversy; China and spying; Disaster response; Asian Tsumani; Hurricane Katrina; Earthquake in Pakistan

DEFENCE POLICY

Afghanistan; Military operations; Friendly fire incident; Ballistic missile defence; The Arctic; Submarines; Chemical agents and testing; Change in military ombudsman; Change in leadership and structure

Municipal affairs by Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly, Serena Kataoka, and Warren Magnusson 

CITIES IN THE MARKETPLACE

THE CULTURE OF CITIES 

REGIONAL GOVERNANCE

LOCAL DEMOCRACY 

CITIES IN THE CONFEDERATION 

First Nations by Kristin Burnett 

FEDERAL DEVELOPMENTS

The budgets of 24- government spending on FN issues; Bill C-2; The alternate dispute resolution process; Residential schools – joint responsibility; First Ministers’ Summit on aboriginal issues; Appointments; Assembly of First Nations

PROVINCIAL AND TERRITORIAL DEVELOPMENTS

BRITISH COLUMBIA

Growing protests over national resource extraction; Aboriginal rights and land claims; United Native Nations Society (UNN); Transferring services

THE WEST 

Housing; Court decisions; Economic development; Adoption; Stolen Sisters and Project Kare?; Elections; First Nations University of Canada (FNUC); The Powley Decision

ONTARIO

Residential schools; The inquiry into Ipperwash; Kashechewan;  Harvesting natural resources

QUEBC

Kanesatake; Natural resource development; Removal and resettlement

MARITIMES 

Treaty Rights  

THE NORTH

The Mackenzie Valley Pipeline; Nunavut; Education

British Columbia by Carey Hill 

TWO THRONE SPEECHES

PROVINCIAL BUDGET

PROVINCIAL ELECTION

SINGLE TRANSFERABLE VOTE

LABOUR ISSUES: STRIKES AND LEGISLATION

Telus ‘strike’; Independent truckers ‘strike’; Teachers’ strike; Other

SOFTWOOD LUMBER DISPUTE

MINING

NEW RELATIONSHIP WITH ABORIGINAL PEOPLES

KELOWNA ACCORD

VANCOUVER’S MUNICIPAL ELECTION

FEDERAL ELECTION

ECONOMY

Alberta by Harold Jansen 

OIL LEADS THE WAY TO AN ECONOMIC BOOM 

THE CENTENNIAL CELEBRATIONS 

TRAGEY IN MAYERTHORPE 

WIND AND WATER: ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES IN ALBERTA 

WHERE’S THE BEEF? THE BSE CRISIS ENDS AND LAKESIDE PACKERS GOES ON STRIKE 

CALGARY’S WARD 1 ELECTION SCANDAL FALLOUT 

THE PROVINCIAL LEGISLATURE 

LEADERSHIP POLITICS 

MISCELLANEOUS 

Saskatchewan by Joseph Garcea 

ELECTIONS 

POLITICAL PARTIES 

THE LEGISLATURE AND GOVERNMENT 

THE BUDGET 

THE ECONOMY  

THE JUDICIARY 

INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS 

ABORIGINAL AFFAIRS 

Manitoba by Geoffrey Lambert 

THE LEGISLATIVE SESSION 

POLITICS AND POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS 

THE ECONOMY 

OTHER EVENTS 

The Territories by Ken Coates and Greg Poelzer 

THE NORTH IN CANADIAN AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS 

YUKON POLITICS 

NORTHWEST TERRITORIES POLITICS 

NUNAVUT POLITICS 

ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES 

SOCIAL CONDITIONS 

THE NORTH IN 25 

Ontario by Robert Drummond 

EDUCATION 

HEALTH 

ENERGY 

IPPERWASH 

Quebec by Daniel Salée  

SHOWDOWN WITH THE STUDENTS 

CLAMPING DOWN ON PUBLIC SECTOR EMPLOYEES 

MEANWHILE, IN THE OPPOSITION CAMP...  

RETHINKING QUEBEC: LUCIDES VS SOLIDAIRES  

FAMILY FEUD: QUEBEC-OTTAWA RELATIONS 

Wrangling over maternity and parental benefits; The national day care program; Quebec’s role in international affairs

ANNUS HORRIBILIS?

New Brunswick by Richard Wilbur 

THE LEGISLATIVE SESSIONS 

ECONOMY 

The grim plight of the pulp and paper mills  ; Farming and fishing ; Other segments of economy present uneven picture

THREE BIGGEST SECTORS CONTINUE TO DOMINATE: ENERGY, HEALTH, AND EDUCATIONT

Energy ; Health; Education

Prince Edward Island by Peter E. Buker 

THE ECONOMY 

FISCAL EVENTS 

POLITICS AND THE LEGISLATURE 

OTHER EVENTS 

Nova Scotia by Robert G. Finbow 

POLITICS 

THE LEGISLATURE 

THE ECONOMY 

INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS 

Newfoundland and Labrador by Peter Neary and Melvin Baker  

Obituaries 

Voting tables

Index of names 

Index of subjects

About the Author

David Mutimer is a professor and chair of the Department of Political Science at York University.