Institute of Intergovernmental Relations
Queen's University
Bringing Mechanisms for the Federal Capital Region
Director André Juneau, with David L.A. Gordon, contributes a chapter entitled, "Bridging Mechanisms for the Federal Capital Region", to the recent Invenire Books publication,
The Unimagined Canadian Capital: Challenges for the Federal Capital Region. The compilation is based on the proceedings of the January 28-29, 2011 colloquium held at the University of Ottawa under the joint sponsorship of the Forum of Federations and the Centre on Governance of the University of Ottawa.Too many stakeholders have neglected their duty of imagining an inspiring federal capital region for Canada. Under the auspicies of the Forum of Federations, a number of persons interested in the fate of Canada's federal capital region came together to examine the challenges facing the region and to put forward suggestions to deal with them.
In this report on the brainstorming exercies conducted in January 2011, professionals, academics and elected officials take stock of the vast array of assets on which the federal capital region can build; probe the many sources of failures in coping as effectively and creatively as one would expect with the diversity, trans-border, financial and governance challenges; and make suggestions to ensure that the federal capital region does not remain "unimagined" in the future.
This publication is available for order via Commoners Publishing:
Paper: $21.95