Dilemmas of Solidarity : Rethinking Distribution in the Canadian Federation.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One: Social Justice and the Politics of Redistribution -- Social Justice: Does Federalism Make a Difference? -- Comments -- Redistribution in the Canadian Federation: The Impact of the Cities Agenda and the New Canada -- Social Justice in Overlapping Sharing Communities -- Part Two: Taxation and the Search for Redistribution -- Personal Income Tax and Redistribution in the Canadian Federation -- Comments -- Taxation, Redistribution, and Fiscal Federalism -- Is Vertical Equity a Virtuous End? -- Personal Income Tax, Redistribution, and Fiscal Federalism in Canada: Some Observations -- Part Three: The Spending Power and the Constitutional Architecture of Redistribution -- The Federal Spending Power and Fiscal Imbalance in Canada -- Comments -- Liberty and Overlapping Federalism -- Fiscal Federalism: Not Resolvable by Constitutional Law -- The Irreducible Federal Necessity of Jurisdictional Autonomy, and the Irreducibility of Federalism to Jurisdictional Autonomy -- Afterword: Solidarity as the Boldness of Modesty -- Contributors.

Since the rise of the Canadian welfare state in the aftermath of the Second World War, the politics of social policy and fiscal federalism have been at the centre of federal-provincial relations. Recent events have given impetus for scholars to re-examine these issues.

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