Publications

• General Publications
• Sector Profiles
• Annual Reports
• Research Reports
• Case Studies
• Advisory Committee Reports
• Related Federal Government Publications
  
  

To receive a copy of a publication, please contact the Co-operatives Secretariat either by e-mail or by telephone at 613-759-7194.

General Publications

• Co-operatives and the Social Economy - March 2004
• Co-operatives: Solutions to 21st Century Challenges - October 2001
• Worker Co-operative Success Stories
  (In partnership with: The Canadian Worker Co-operative Federation) - August 2000
• The Co-operative Alternative to Public Service Delivery - June, 1998
• The Role of Co-operatives in Health Care - National and International Perspectives - June 2009

Sector Profiles

• Health Care Co-operatives in Canada
• Profile of Canadian Agricultural Co-operatives (1998-2002)
• Profile of Canadian Agricultural Co-operatives (1986-2000)
• Socio-Economic Profile of Aboriginal Co-operatives in Canada

Annual Reports

Top 50 Canadian Co-operatives

• Top 50 Non-Financial Co-operatives in Canada 2008
• Top 50 Non-Financial Co-operatives in Canada 2007
• Top 50 Non-Financial Co-operatives in Canada 2006 (revised)
• Top 50 Non-Financial Co-operatives in Canada (2005)
• Top 50 Non-Financial Co-operatives in Canada (2004)
• Top 50 Canadian Co-operatives (2003)
• Top 50 Canadian Co-operatives (2002)
• Top 50 Canadian Co-operatives (2001)
• Top 50 Canadian Co-operatives (2000)
• Top 50 Canadian Co-operatives (1999)
• Top 50 Canadian Co-operatives (1998)
• Top 50 Canadian Co-operatives (1997)
• Top 50 Canadian Co-operatives (1996)

Co-operatives in Canada

• Co-operatives in Canada (Situation - 2005) (published March 2009)
• Co-operatives in Canada (Situation - 2004)
• Co-operatives in Canada (Situation - 2003)
• Co-operatives in Canada (Situation - 2002)
• Co-operatives in Canada (Situation - 2001)
• Co-operatives in Canada (Situation - 2000)
• Co-operatives in Canada (Situation - 1999)
• Co-operatives in Canada (Situation - 1998)
• Co-operatives in Canada (Situation - 1997)
• Co-operatives in Canada (Situation - 1996)

Research Reports

• Assessment of Needs and Issues Related to Financing of Agricultural Co-operatives - March 2005
• Succession Planning - Using The Worker Co-op Option - March 2005
• Analysis of International Trends in Worker Co-operatives - May 2005
• Health Care Co-operatives in Canada - August 2004
• Living 40+: A strategy for placing decent, affordable housing within the reach of financially marginalized non-elderly single women - April 2004
• Innovatives Co-ops in the Social Services Sector - March 2004
• Co-operative Research Inventory Project - 2004
• Survival Rates of Co-operatives in Québec - Québec Ministry of Industry and Commerce in collaboration with the Co-operatives Secretariat - 2000
• Between enthusiasm and anxiety: Social viability of co-operatives and collective enterprises in the Lower St. Lawrence region of Québec by Carol Saucier, Raymond Beaudry and Claude Denis - 2001
• Financial co-operatives and social cohesion: how do they interface in the new "local" territory in the age of globalization? by Marie-Claire Malo and al. - March 2001 by Marie-Claire Malo and al. - March
• Social auditing and community cohesion: the co-operative way by Leslie Brown - February 2001

Case Studies

• Analysis of the Case Studies
• Co-operative Auto Network
• Lameque Renewable Energy Co-operative
• Fédération des coopératives du Nouveau-Québec
• Northwest Co-operative Fisheries Ltd.
• The Saint-Camille Co-operative Initiatives
• La Siembra Co-operative Inc.
• Ukrainian Co-operative Nursery School of Toronto

Advisory Committee Reports

In 2002, the Secretary of State asked the Advisory Committee on Co-operatives to provide specific concrete examples of how the co-operative approach can help bring solutions in line with public policy objectives. More particularly, the Committee was asked to focus on four priority areas: agriculture, rural development, aboriginal development and health care. The Committee produced the following four reports which highlight co-operative success stories, identify opportunities and impediments, present public policy arguments for the use of the co-op model in one of the priority areas of Government, and advance concrete recommendations. Note: The term of the Advisory Committee expired in April 2003. It was replaced by the Co-operative Development Initiative Steering Committee.

• The Development of Aboriginal Co-operatives in Canada
• The Co-operative Option: A Natural Fit for Public Policy in Agriculture
• Co-operatives and Health Care
• Self-reliance Through Mutual Aid: Co-operatives and Development in Rural and Remote Canada

Related Federal Government Publications

• Survey on Financing of Co-operatives- Statistics Canada
• Co-operative Incorporation Kit - Industry Canada
• Canada's Credit Unions and Caisses Populaires - Department of Finance Canada - March 2003