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This study examines Canada's experiment with social partnerships through their Labour Force Development Boards (LFDBs): a process which was fraught with difficulties and complexities. Concerns are expressed about democracy, federalism, nationalism and class relations as well as the challenge of improving labour market policies. Part One - Context - contains the following papers: Canada's experiment with Labour Force Development Boards: an introduction / Rodney Haddow and Andrew Sharpe; Labour market corporatism and labour market performance / Andrew Sharpe and Rodney Harrow. Part Two - Case Studies - contains the following papers: Transforming the active labour market policy network: the emergence of the Canadian Labour Force Development Board / Craig McFadyen; Worth the candle? Labour Force Development Boards in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick / Rodney Haddow; Towards a renewed concertation in Quebec: La Societe quebecoise de developpement de la main-d'oeuvre / Andrew F. Johnson; La Societe quebecoise de developpement de la main-d'oeuvre: a postscript / Rodney Haddow and Andrew Sharpe; Institutional limits to labour market reform in Ontario: the short life and rapid demise of the Ontario Training and Adjustment Board / David A. Wolfe; The Saskatchewan Labour Force Development Board: reforming labour market governance in a cold climate / Rodney Haddow; The British Columbia Labour Force Development Board: delivering consensus / Leif Hommen; and Tools for the job? decentralization, partnership and market forces in British and Canadian labour market policy / Jamie Peck and Tod Rutherford. Part Three - Conclusion - Labour Force Development Boards: a viable model? / Rodney Haddow and Andrew Sharpe.