The Guardian

Perspectives on the Ministry of Finance of Ontario

Patrice Dutil

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English

University of Toronto Press
18 June 2011

Series: IPAC Series in Public Management and Governance

Finance departments have often been portrayed as guardians of the public purse. In The Guardian, a multidisciplinary group of contributors examines the Ministry of Finance of Ontario since the Second World War. During the last sixty years the Ministry was transformed from a relatively small 'Treasury' to a sophisticated policy machine. What started as a modest bookkeeping operation evolved into a key bureaucratic and policy agency as the government of Ontario assumed a leadership position in developing the province.

These essays reveal Ontario's 'finance' as a dynamic policy issue shaped by the personalities of premiers and ministers, the energies of public servants at all levels, and a critical dialogue between political and administrative worlds. Drawing on different methodologies, this collection profiles a ministry as policy entrepreneur, spender, revenue generator, capacity builder, budget director, program manager, and intergovernmental agent. The Guardian fills a significant gap in public administration literature and in so doing describes how Ontario's Ministry of Finance defined its role as 'guardian.'

Edited by: Patrice Dutil
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Country of Publication: Canada
Dimensions: Height: 238mm, Width: 160mm, Spine: 31mm
Weight: 700g
ISBN: 9781442642546
ISBN 10: 1442642548
Series: IPAC Series in Public Management and Governance
Pages: 277
Publication Date: 18 June 2011
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Patrice Dutil is a professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at Toronto Metropolitan University.

Reviews for The Guardian: Perspectives on the Ministry of Finance of Ontario

'A strong, well-executed collection, The Guardian chronicles and analyses an important yet largely unstudied component of provincial governance - the Ontario Ministry of Finance. The chapters, which combine primary sources, interviews, and archival research, are original, clearly focused, and soundly balanced. The Guardian is a serious advance in state-of-the-art research - nothing of such range and quality exists in English on a similar institution at the provincial level in Canada.' --Graham White, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto

Short-listed for Legislative Assembly of Ontario Speaker's Book Award 2012 (Canada)
Short-listed for Legislative Assembly of Ontario Speaker’s Book Award 2012 (Canada)