Divided province : Ontario politics in the age of neoliberalism / edited by Greg Albo and Bryan M. Evans.

Includes bibliographies and index.

The Ontario growth model : the "end of the road" or a "new economy"? / John Peters -- The geography of the Ontario service economy / Steven Tufts -- A neoliberal pause? The auto and manufacturing sectors in Ontario since free trade / Dimitry Anastakis -- Northern Ontario and the crisis of development and democracy / David Leadbeater -- New bargains? Ontario and federalism in the neoliberal period / Robert Drummond -- Gendering state : women and public policy in Ontario / Tammy Findlay -- Municipal neoliberalism and the Ontario state / Carlo Fanelli -- Class, power, and neoliberal employment policy in Ontario / Charles Smith -- Poverty and policy in Ontario : you can't eat good intentions / Peter Graefe and Carol-Anne Hudson -- Reforming health services in Ontario : contradictions / Hugh Armstrong and Pat Armstrong -- Competing paradigms : the search for sustainability in Ontario electricity policy / Mark Winfield and Becky MacWhirter -- Schooling goes to market : the consolidation of lean education in Ontario / Alan Sears and James Cairns -- Colonialism, Indigenous struggles, and the Ontario state / Jamie Lawson -- Unequal futures : race and class under neoliberalism in Ontario / Grace-Edward Galabuzi -- The democratic imagination in Ontario and participatory budgeting / Terry Maley -- The challenges of union political action in the era of neoliberalism / Stephanie Ross.

"No government jurisdiction in Canada has so radically transformed its public policies over the past decades as Ontario, and yet the province has also maintained a striking degree of political stability in its party system. Since the 1990s, neoliberalism has been the point of reference in constructing policy agendas for all of Ontario's political parties. It has guided the strategy for governance of the dominant Liberal Party since 2003, even as it divides the province between workers and employers, north and south, rural and urban, and racialized minorities and the majority population. With a focus on the governments of Mike Harris, Dalton McGuinty, and Kathleen Wynne, Divided Province brings together leading researchers to dissect the province's public policies since the 1990s. Presenting original, state-of-the art research, the book demonstrates that, although the Conservative government of Mike Harris implemented the sharpest and most profound shift towards the establishment of a neoliberal regime in the province, the subsequent Liberal governments consolidated that neoliberal turn. The essays inside this volume explore the consequences of this ideological turn across a spectrum of policies, including health, education, poverty, energy, employment, manufacturing, and how it has impacted workers, women, First Nations, and other distinct communities. The first book to offer a comprehensive critical account of neoliberalism in Ontario, Divided Province overturns conventional readings of the province's politics and suggests that building a more democratic and egalitarian alternative to the current orthodoxy requires nothing less than a radical rupture from existing policies and political alliances. Without such a decisive break, political space may well open up again for the populist right."--

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