{"id":361,"date":"2020-10-21T16:37:47","date_gmt":"2020-10-21T16:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theurbanproject.ca\/?post_type=resource&#038;p=361"},"modified":"2021-08-06T12:14:49","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T16:14:49","slug":"policy-in-place-revisiting-canadas-tri-level-agreements","status":"publish","type":"resource","link":"https:\/\/theurbanproject.ca\/resource\/policy-in-place-revisiting-canadas-tri-level-agreements\/","title":{"rendered":"Policy In Place: Revisiting Canada\u2019s Tri-Level Agreements"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the importance of cities as partners in implementing and enforcing national and provincial policies, programs, and services. An important question that arises is: what is the best way for different orders of government and stakeholders to coordinate their activities to deliver local solutions to the national and global issues playing out in cities?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a new paper for the Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance (IMFG), Professor Neil Bradford revisits Canada\u2019s history of successful tri-level agreements to address homelessness, immigrant settlement, economic development, infrastructure funding, and more. Bradford argues that these agreements offer a model for place-based federalism \u2013 a form of bottom-up policymaking that includes all orders of government, including municipalities and communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Based on an analysis of the workings and achievements of five tri-level agreements over the past four decades, Bradford identifies specific policy fields where new tri-level agreements could have a positive impact and sets out six principles to inform their design and implementation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the importance of cities as partners in implementing and enforcing national and provincial policies, programs, and services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":646,"menu_order":0,"template":"","resource-type":[17],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theurbanproject.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resource\/361"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theurbanproject.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resource"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theurbanproject.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/resource"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theurbanproject.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theurbanproject.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resource\/361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theurbanproject.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theurbanproject.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"resource-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theurbanproject.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resource-type?post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}