Open Federalism in the Harper Era and its Historical Legacy?

In this podcast episode, Greg Marchildon interviews Jim Farney, an Associal Professor of Political Science and the University of Regina Director of the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy. A careful observer of Conservative politics in Canada, he previously published Social Conservatism and Party Politics in Canada and the United States. With co-editor Julie Simmons, he has recently completed a book entitled Open Federalism Revisited: Regional and Federal Dynamics in the Harper Era published by the University of Toronto Press in 2021. In our interview, we examine the impact and legacy of Prime Minister Harper’s shift from collaborative federalism to what he called “open federalism”, a term used to describe an older “watertight” compartment of view of federalism in which the two orders of government operate separately in their areas of jurisdiction.

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