摘要：The Province of Quebec leads North America in terms of family policy development. In 2004, municipal actors were invited to develop family policies at the municipal level. This article examines how municipal actors have endorsed those objectives, especially in the perspective of the work-family balance. The perspective chosen is borrowed in part from the time synchronization policies developed at the municipal level in some European countries, in particular Italy and France, but also from the objectives put forward by the Quebec government. This paper examines whether municipal actors have actually underwritten this new political responsibility, and finds that the temporal approach and work-family articulation is echoed in only a small percentage of the municipal family policy documents. The authors have investigated more closely the cases of five municipalities amongst the few where this theme is present. The research leads to conclude that the work-family focus remains underdeveloped in these municipal policies and none of the five municipalities had yet implemented a truly cross-cutting European-style ‘time policy’. The authors offer an explanation for this situation.
关键词：Regional Development Planning and Policy; Regional Government Analysis; Political Economy
