"After more than a decade of deregulation and privatization in Canada, the time is ripe for an examination of the regulatory institutions that were reshaped, rebuilt, or newly created in the process. At the same time as internal factors were affecting changes, new international agreements such as NAFTA and global telecommunications were also having a major impact on both regulators and the communities being regulated.".

"This book examines changes to key institutions and argues for a greater breadth of institutional analysis. It also examines particular regulatory bodies, such as the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission, the National Energy Board, and the Canadian Transport Agency. Furthermore, the analysis extends to civic regulation, the regulation of privacy, internal trade regulation, and international trade and finance."--BOOK JACKET.