Project C7 - Nova Scotia Co-operative Development System Case Study – Phase Two:

Abstract

BALTA’s aims, as reflected in the SSHRC proposal, include researching innovative practices that are achieving demonstrable results elsewhere and exploring whether such innovations can be adapted to achieve significant results in Alberta and B.C. Thus, from the beginning, it was understood that it only made sense to do the NS-based case study in Phase One if there was a second phase examining its applicability (or not) to the Alberta and B.C. contexts. Going further than that, the case study was seen as a catalyst that could be used to explore the strengths, constraints, challenges and opportunities existing in the Alberta and B.C. contexts.

Thus, an Alberta and B.C. based second phase project, to be implemented in the 2007-2008 fiscal year, was seen as building upon the Nova Scotia case study.