caa a22 4500 388107693 CHVBK 20180307125344.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199912 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0008423900016954 doi S0008423900016954 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0008423900016954 Policy Communities and Policy Divergence in Canada: Agro-Environmental Policy Development in Quebec and Ontario [Elektronische Daten] Despite what would appear to be pressures for policy convergence in Canada due to growing continental integration and market competitiveness, agro-environmental policies in the provinces of Quebec and Ontario have become increasingly divergent over the past decade. Quebec's policies are comprehensive, coercive in approach and intrusive in the production process; those in Ontario, while comprehensive, rely more on industry self-regulation and shy away from intruding significantly into farming practices. Three institutional factors help explain this policy divergence. First, Quebec's main environmental act enabled the Ministry of the Environment to participate in the agro-environmental policy community's "subgovernment,” while the Ministry of the Environment in Ontario remained in the "attentive public.” Second, the agricultural policy network in Ontario took on many attributes of closed bipartite corporatism during the 1990s, thereby enhancing the power potential of Ontario's farmers. Third, path dependence related to policy feedback predisposed Ontario to self-regulatory approaches, but favoured strong statist policies in Quebec. The combination of these institutional differences creates distinct negotiation settings in the two provinces. Consequently, in Ontario, policy discussions tend to focus on wealth generation to the exclusion of distributive justice, while in contrast, Quebec's institutions focus more on distributive issues, perhaps at the expense of aggregate value creation. Copyright © Canadian Political Science Association 1999 Montpetit Éric École nationale d'administration publique Coleman William D. McMaster University Canadian Journal of Political Science Cambridge University Press 32/4(1999-12), 691-714 0008-4239 32:4<691 1999 32 CJP https://doi.org/10.1017/S0008423900016954 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0008423900016954 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Montpetit Éric École nationale d'administration publique NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Coleman William D. McMaster University NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Canadian Journal of Political Science Cambridge University Press 32/4(1999-12), 691-714 0008-4239 32:4<691 1999 32 CJP CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge