Executive Styles in Canada: Cabinet Structures and Leadership Practices in Canadian Government

J.L. Granatstein, Distinguished Research Professor of History Emeritus,
York University, served as Director of the Canadian War Museum from 1998
to 2000. His latest works are Who Killed Canadian History?, Who Killed
the Canadian Military, and Hell’s Cor

Donald Savoie of the University of Moncton is Canada’s leading scholar
on federal government organization. He has written extensively on how
the forms of organization used shape government actions. Now, inspired
by his work at the Ottawa level (and Savoie has a fine paper in this
collection on the federal government), a group of scholars have focused
on the provincial governments. With an essay on each province, this book
gives us some sense of the differences and similarities. Nova Scotia,
for example, is top down, everything depending on the premier. Ontario
and Quebec are different from each other but also different from Nova
Scotia, while Alberta and British Columbia are different again. In
Saskatchewan, planning is god, a legacy from Tommy Douglas’s time.
This is a useful collection, a primer on Canadian governmental
organizations.