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The New Staple State: Political Economy and Public Policy Regimes in Canada’s Primary Industries Edited By Michael Howlett Department of Political Science Simon Fraser University Burnaby BC Howlett@sfu.ca Keith Brownsey Public Policy Mt. Royal College Calgary, ALTA kbrownsey@mountroyal.ab.ca Manuscript Submitted to the University of British Columbia Press July 29, 2005  Table of Contents Table of Contents ii Table of Tables vi Table of Figures vii Part 1 - Introduction 2 Chapter 1 – Introduction – Michael Howlett (SFU) and Keith Brownsey (Mt. Royal College) 3 Part II: The New Political Economy of Consumption Industries: Agriculture and Fish 4 Chapter II: “The Two Faces of Canadian Agriculture in a Post-Staples Economy” – Grace Skogstad (Toronto) 5 Introduction 5 I. Agriculture as a Dominant Staple: late 19th century – 1930 8 IV. State Retrenchment, Regionalisation, and Globalization in the 1980s and 1990s 13 Regional Market Integration and Dependence 15 Integration into the Multilateral Trading Regime 17 Redefining State Fiscal Obligations 19 V. The Political Organization of the Agri-Food Sector and State-Sector Relations 20 Chapter III: “The New Agriculture: Genetically-Engineered Food in Canada” – Elizabeth Moore (Agriculture Canada) 36 Chapter IV: The Impact of International Trade Liberalization on the Canadian Fisheries Industry - Gunhild Hoogensen, (Tromso) 37 Chapter V: Caught in a Staples Vise: The Political Economy of Canadian Aquaculture” - Jeremy Rayner (Malaspina) and Michael Howlett (SFU) 38 Introduction: 38 (Overly) Optimistic Expansion in the 1980s and 1990s 38 Emerging Problems with Aquacultural Development 40 A Post-Staples Policy Process? 43 Aquaculture as a Problematic Post-Staples Industry 45 The Finfish Sector 48 The Shellfish Sector 50 The Existing Canadian Aquaculture Regulatory Framework 52 The Federal Situation 54 Provincial Developments 62 Conclusion 69 References 72 Part III: The New Political Economy of Transmission Industries: Oil and G