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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, 2004  Table of Contents Table of Contents ii Table of Tables xii Table of Figures xiii Part 1 - Introduction 2 Chapter 1 – Introduction – Michael Howlett (SFU) and Keith Brownsey (Mt. Royal College) 3 Overview: Staples and Post-Staples Political Economy 3 Chapter II: “The Post-Staples State: Reconstruction of Political Economy and Social Identity in 21st Century Canada” – Tom Hutton (UBC) 8 Introduction: the post-staples hypothesis in context 8 The state of the advanced staples state: defining conditions 12 New and emergent dynamics of regional divergence 19 Implications of the reconstruction of political economy and social identity 32 References 36 Part II: The New Political Economy of Consumption Industries: Agriculture and Fish 38 Chapter III: “Canadian Agriculture: The Elusive Search for Fair Terms of Trade” – Grace Skogstad (Toronto) 39 Introduction 39 An Historical Overview 42 State Retrenchment and Market Liberalism in the 1980s and 1990s 48 Regional Market Integration and Dependence 49 Integration into the Multilateral Trading Regime 52 Redefining State Fiscal Obligations 54 The Role and Impact of Farm Organizations in Market Liberal Initiatives 56 Structural Change in the Agri-Food Sector 60 Looking Ahead 65 References 70 Chapter IV: “The New Agriculture: Genetically-Engineered Food in Canada” – Elizabeth Moore (Agriculture Canada) 80 Introduction 80 Canadian agriculture: a history of applying technology to agriculture 84 Jumping on the biotechnology bandwagon 85 Regulation as instrument of promotion and protection 89 Shifting ground: commercialization of GE food cro