dc.contributor.advisor	Steeves, Jeffrey	en_US
dc.contributor.committeeMember	Deonandan, Kalowatie	en_US
dc.contributor.committeeMember	Story, Donald	en_US
dc.contributor.committeeMember	Atkinson, Michael	en_US
dc.creator	Hurd, Emily	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2013-01-03T22:28:23Z
dc.date.available	2013-01-03T22:28:23Z
dc.date.created	2012-01	en_US
dc.date.issued	2012-03-13	en_US
dc.date.submitted	January 2012	en_US
dc.description.abstract	The Group of Eight (G8) is one of the most prestigious forums to which Canada belongs. It represents an avenue through which the Canadian government can exercise its opinion on a number of economic and political issues. At the G8 summits in Genoa, Italy (2001) and Kananaskis, Alberta (2002), the Liberal Government of Canada, led by Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, ensured that African poverty reduction was a central concern to the group. In 2001, authors of the New Partnership for African Development (NEPAD) presented their plan to the G8. G8 leaders responded with the African Action Plan (AAP). At the Kananaskis summit, G8 leaders focused on African development issues, the specifics of which were addressed in the AAP. Prime Minister Chrétien took the lead in these efforts, developing domestic policies (such as the Canada Fund for Africa and the promises made at the International Conference on Financing for Development in Monterrey, Mexico) and working through the international concert of the G8. This thesis adapts John Kingdon’s public policy model, the Multiple Streams model, to analyze Canadian foreign policy. It studies how and why African development rose to the top of the agenda for Canada and the G8 in the early 2000s. It illustrates how Prime Minister Chrétien became a Policy Entrepreneur, both in Canada and within the G8. It argues that the streams of problem, policy and politics aligned and that Chrétien was able to couple them, pushing them through a policy window and affecting real policy change. It concludes that, while the Multiple Streams model lacks in predictive power, it is an excellent tool through which to understand policy decisions made both domestically and within an international body such as the G8.	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10388/ETD-2012-01-343	en_US
dc.language.iso	eng	en_US
dc.subject	Chrétien, Jean	en_US
dc.subject	Multiple Streams model	en_US
dc.subject	G8	en_US
dc.subject	Kingdon, John	en_US
dc.title	Jean Chrétien: policy etrepreneur : a case study of the 2002 G8 summit in Kananaskis, Alberta	en_US
dc.type.genre	Thesis	en_US
dc.type.material	text	en_US
thesis.degree.department	Political Studies	en_US
thesis.degree.discipline	Political Science	en_US
thesis.degree.grantor	University of Saskatchewan	en_US
thesis.degree.level	Masters	en_US
thesis.degree.name	Master of Arts (M.A.)	en_US

Jean Chrétien: policy etrepreneur : a case study of the 2002 G8 summit in Kananaskis, Alberta

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