Omnibus Budget Bills And The Covert Dismantling Of Canadian Democracy

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dc.contributor.advisorScott, Dayna N.
dc.contributor.authorKotyk, Jacqueline Raeen_US
dc.date.accessioned2018-07-17T12:25:34Z
dc.date.available2018-07-17T12:25:34Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.date.updated2018-07-17T12:25:33Z
dc.descriptionNominated for 2017 Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Series
dc.description.abstractThis paper examines the rise of omnibus budget bills in Canadian Parliament and argues that the bills are a ruling class political tactic aimed at subverting democracy and restructuring Canadian social relations along neoliberal lines. Research results show that the increase in use of the bills corresponds with the rise of neoliberal politics in Canada. Further, the bills have by and large operated to subvert Canadian Parliamentary democracy while implementing neoliberal policy reforms such as dismantling the social safety net, introducing regressive tax reforms, rolling back regulation, and privatizing previously public enterprises. Finally, the bills have contributed to a political nihilism in Canada, that operates to further de-democratize the population and may contribute to the disintegration of a democratic political imaginary in this country. Social movements such as Idle No More, who have faced down the politics of domination and exploitation as represented by omnibus budget bills are powerful counterforces to the neoliberal political project in Canadian society.
dc.identifierMESMP01912
dc.identifier.citationMajor Project, Master of Environmental Studies, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/34785
dc.language.isoen
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dc.subject.keywordsOmnibus Budget Bills
dc.subject.keywordsCanadian Parliament
dc.subject.keywordsNeoliberalism
dc.subject.keywordsDemocracy
dc.subject.keywordsIdle No More
dc.subject.keywordsExtractive Capitalism
dc.subject.keywordsLiberalism
dc.subject.keywordsLaw
dc.subject.keywordsSociety
dc.subject.keywordsThe State
dc.subject.keywordsSettler-colonialism
dc.subject.keywordsCreative Resistance
dc.subject.keywordsJustice
dc.titleOmnibus Budget Bills And The Covert Dismantling Of Canadian Democracy
dc.typeMajor Project

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