Transcript A Policy Framework For CED

Governance within the
Social Economy Movement:
the cases of Quebec and
Manitoba
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OUTLINE
-Historical evolution of the structure
-Current structure
-Impacts: policy
-Impacts: service delivery
-Summary
-Recommendations
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QUEBEC: HISTORICAL EVOLUTION
 Key moment: 1996 Summit on the
Economy and employment
• Bouchard government convenes civil society
• Taskforce reaches consensus, common
definition, recommendations
• Taskforce becomes Chantier
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QUEBEC: HISTORICAL EVOLUTION
 Pre 1996: prior consolidation
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100+ years of coops, unification under CCQ
Prior social economy summits
Women’s movement: Bread and Roses
‘Economic militantism’ of social movements
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QUEBEC: CURRENT STRUCTURE
 Chantier: inclusive, representative,
formalized governance structure
• ‘electoral college’
• reps from various types of organizations
• regional reps
 Tensions with ‘sub-sectors’ : coops,
social movements
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QUEBEC: IMPACTS: POLICY
 Chantier gives SE sector single voice
 Legitimacy and recognition for SE
 Entrenchment in political process
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QUEBEC: IMPACTS: POLICY
 Support for SE from existing bodies:
CLDs
 Preference for SE in service delivery
 Legislative reform: coops
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QUEBEC: IMPACTS: SERVICE DELIVERY
 Services to SE sector delivered by SE
sector, mainly thru Chantier
 Finance
• responds to recommendations made by
Taskforce
• Addresses weak link for SE sector
• RISQ
• Chantier Trust
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QUEBEC: IMPACTS: SERVICE DELIVERY
 Technical assistance
• CSMO-ESAC: comprehensive labor market
development
• RISQ
 Public, stakeholder engagement
• Chantier’s unification of sector
• Common definition
• Legitimization and recognition of sector by
public thru work of Chantier
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QUEBEC: IMPACTS: SERVICE DELIVERY
 Learning, education and research
• University-SE sector partnership research:
ARUC, RQRP
• CIRIEC Canada
• Chantier’s international role: GESQ, RIPESS,
international exchanges
 Market development
• “valeurs ajoutees”
• Purchasing portals
• Lobbying for procurement: City of Montreal
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MANITOBA: HISTORICAL EVOLUTION
 1999: Doer’s NDP government
• CED activists, practitioners integrate
government: Kostyra, MacKinnon
• Greater legitimacy of CED
• Greater access to ‘halls of power’
 Prior organization: Choices
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MANITOBA: CURRENT STRUCTURE
 CED sector less cohesive than in
Quebec
 ‘sub-sectors’ have their own reps:
Francophone, Aboriginal, Coops,
Mutuals
 Organizations around specific
campaigns, advocacy work: Right to
Housing, Raise the Rates, make
Poverty History, Manitoba Food
Charter, etc
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MANITOBA: CURRENT STRUCTURE
 CCEDNet Manitoba: one attempt at
unification
• Diverse membership
• Representative at policy level
• The ‘glue’ that connects other policy, advocacy
campaigns
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MANITOBA: IMPACTS: POLICY
Community and Economic
Development Committee of Cabinet
(CEDC)
CEDC Secretariat
CED Framework
CED Lens
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MANITOBA: IMPACTS: POLICY
 Core funding to CED organizations
 Creation of other bodies: NRCs
 Financing: CED Tax Credit
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MANITOBA: IMPACTS: SERVICE
DELIVERY
 Channeled thru partnerships of Govt
and CED sector
 Financing
• Delivered by Government: WPA, NA!, core
funding of CEDOs, Loan financing
• Tax Credit
 Technical Assistance
• CED Technical Assistance Program (CEDTAS)
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MANITOBA: IMPACTS: SERVICE
DELIVERY
 Public, stakeholder engagement
• Advocacy, policy campaigns
• CCEDNet publications, newsletters, events
 Learning, education and research
• CED Training Intermediary
• CCEDNet conferences, workshops, courses
• Research: CED and New Economy, MRA-TIAC,
participation in CSERP
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MANITOBA: IMPACTS: SERVICE
DELIVERY
 Market development
• Social Purchasing Portal
• LITE
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SUMMARY
Quebec SE sector more cohesive than
in Manitoba
Quebec: better financing tools
Quebec: greater role for SE sector in
service delivery
Quebec: SE sector more central role
in policy co-construction
Responsive government, key in both
Both, prior organization of sector led
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to advent of responsive government
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RECOMMENDATIONS
More unification needed in Manitoba
A formalized, official channel for
dialogue with government
Importance of developing strong
financing mechanisms run by sector
Even incipient organizing and
advocacy is effective; continue these
efforts
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