Oil, the State, and Federalism: The Rise and Demise of Petro-Canada as a Statist Impulse

by John Erik Fossum

The creation and privatization of Petro-Canada provides an important lesson in state intervention and Canadian public policy. John Erik Fossum explores the reasons for the federal government's intervention in the energy industry between 1973 and 1984 and shows how its initial objectives failed, culminating in the privatization of Petro-Canada in 1990. In other countries, state oil policy unfolded along state-industry lines of conflict. Fossum shows...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802076629
• ISBN13: 9780802076625
• Release Date: September 1997
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.7" x 9.0"