POLS 2250 Lecture Notes - Canada Border Services Agency, Canadian Security Intelligence Service, Adolph Wagner
17 Jun 2013
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Roles of government: owner and producer e. g. lcbo, cbc, via rail, tvo, canada post - crown corporations (not provided by private or not to extent desired) *cbc provides canadian content: necessary or unfairly competing with private broadcasting industry: regulator and supervisor e. g. cfia, can dairy commission, crtc, can air transport security. Issue licenses, pass legislation governing production (quality), packaging, advertising, safety, content: income re-distributor e. g. atlantic can opportunities agency, hrsdc, industry canada. *if left unchecked, free market system will create significant inequality. Impacted by personal ability/skill-set/property in inheritance/education: entrepreneurs r ewarded more handsomely, free-market system reward pioneers and innovators. Impacted by health downfalls/social consequences: east coast seasonally laid off - decline i n manufacturing in on. , getting less out of unemployment insurance than east. *medicare: benefit society as whole (but poor more than wealthy) Quotas for farmers, as subject to vagaries of environment (pests/poor weather); programs to improve education; reduce regional income disparities (encourage manufacturing to locate in east.
