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In the early 1990s, voluntary organizations garnered littleattention in Canadian policy circles, even though the federalgovernment was simultaneously offloading its responsibility foressential services to the sector and cutting back their funding. Twodecades later, the voluntary sector is a key public policy player infederal, provincial, and municipal politics.

Rachel Laforest shows why this turnaround represents a significantshift in the way citizens and policy makers view the place of voluntaryorganizations in public policy. Members of voluntary organizations havestruggled for a stronger voice in policy making and redefined theirrelationship to the federal government through key collaborations suchas the Voluntary Sector Initiative. This deft account of how a loosecoalition of voluntary organizations was transformed into a distinctsector offers a new conceptual framework for explaining dynamicstate-voluntary sector relations at all levels of government.

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