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Book Synopsis Trudeau and the End of a Canadian Dream by : Guy Laforest
Download or read book Trudeau and the End of a Canadian Dream written by Guy Laforest and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1995-03-06 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1982 Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau realized his life's ambition: the patriation of the Canadian constitution and the enshrinement of a Charter of Rights and Freedoms. At the same time he dealt a severe blow to his arch-enemies, the nationalists in Quebec who believed that a significant and rewarding partnership with Canada was possible without renouncing their identity as Quebecers. Laforest reveals that Trudeau betrayed the trust of the people of Quebec during the 1980 referendum on sovereignty-association and contends that the whole patriation exercise, completed without the consent of Quebec, is not legitimate in that province. He also holds Trudeau responsible for the ultimate rejection of the "distinct society" clause in the Meech Lake Accord, which had given a glimmer of hope to Quebec federalists. Trudeau and the End of a Canadian Dream shows how constitutional reform, and the political culture it fostered, shattered the hopes of those who believed that being both a Canadian and a Quebecer was possible.
Book Synopsis Pierre Trudeau Speaks Out on Meech Lake by : Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Download or read book Pierre Trudeau Speaks Out on Meech Lake written by Pierre Elliott Trudeau and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The History of Canada Series - The Last Act: Pierre Trudeau by : Ron Graham
Download or read book The History of Canada Series - The Last Act: Pierre Trudeau written by Ron Graham and published by Penguin Canada. This book was released on 2011-04-05 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between the morning of Wednesday, November 4, and the morning of Thursday, November 5, 1981, a fateful drama unfolded that changed Canada forever. In one last attempt to renew the constitution with the consent of the provinces, Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau met behind closed doors in Ottawa with the ten premiers. It was the culmination of more than five decades of constitutional wrangling, and has been called the most important conference since the Fathers of Confederation got together in Quebec City in 1864. Faced with the threat of Quebec independence, the ambitions of Western Canada, and the provinces’ demands for more power, Trudeau was embattled. But he was fiercely determined to make Canadians fully independent and to entrench a Charter of Rights and Freedoms. What happened that day still reverberates. It severed the last important link to Canada’s colonial past. It guaranteed individual liberty and minority rights in the future. It weakened the grip of the elites and gave ownership of the constitution to Canadians. But it came at a price. Quebec alone refused to sign the final deal. René Lévesque, its separatist premier, claimed he had been betrayed by his allies in the Gang of Eight. The legend of the "Night of the Long Knives" took hold, precipitating a series of events that came close to destroying the country. Thirty years later, author Ron Graham delivers a gripping account of the fractious debates and secret negotiations. He uses newly uncovered documents and the candid recollections of many of the key participants to create a vivid record of that momentous twenty-four hours. Authoritative and engaging, The Last Act is a remarkable combination of scholarly research and historical narrative.
Book Synopsis A Meech Lake Post-mortem by : Pierre Fournier
Download or read book A Meech Lake Post-mortem written by Pierre Fournier and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1991 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contrasting results of the Bélanger-Campeau Commission and the Citizens' Forum on National Unity, headed by Keith Spicer, will reveal much about the fundamental incompatibilities and conflicts between Quebec's and English-Canada's perspectives on the future of the country. But the debates will be far from over and Canada's future far from clear. In A Meech Lake Post-Mortem, Pierre Fournier, a supporter of full sovereignty for Quebec, describes these incompatibilities and conflicts and clearly outlines his idea of why the Meech Lake Accord failed.
Book Synopsis The Moral Foundations of Canadian Federalism by : Samuel Victor LaSelva
Download or read book The Moral Foundations of Canadian Federalism written by Samuel Victor LaSelva and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1996 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LaSelva offers a compelling reconsideration of Confederation and of the pivotal role of George-Etienne Cartier, one of the Fathers of Confederation, in both the achievement of confederation and the creation of a distinctively Canadian federalist theory.
Book Synopsis Extraordinary Canadians Pierre Elliott Trudeau by : Nino Ricci
Download or read book Extraordinary Canadians Pierre Elliott Trudeau written by Nino Ricci and published by Penguin Canada. This book was released on 2009-03-31 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love him or hate him, Pierre Trudeau has marked us all. The man whose motto was "reason over passion" managed to arouse in Canadians the fiercest of passions of every hue, ones that even today cloud our view of him and of his place in history. Acclaimed novelist Nino Ricci takes as his starting point the crucial role Trudeau played in the formation of his own sense of identity to look at how Trudeau expanded us as a people, not in spite of his contradictions but because of them.
Book Synopsis Canada and the Ethics of Constitutionalism by : Samuel V. LaSelva
Download or read book Canada and the Ethics of Constitutionalism written by Samuel V. LaSelva and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2018-12-30 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canada is caught between two empires and between two constitutional systems. However, neither the British model of a "single sovereign" nor the American people's "sacred fire of liberty" matched the pluralistic identity of Canada, so Canadians engaged in constitutional experimentation. In Canada and the Ethics of Constitutionalism Samuel LaSelva argues that, in order to understand the old Canada of Confederation and the new one that followed the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, it is necessary to see how distinctive Canadian constitutionalism is and how that distinctiveness does not depend on borrowings from the British or American constitutional models. LaSelva supports his argument by exploring different aspects of Canada's contribution to the ethics of constitutionalism including the limits of free expression, the Charter's notwithstanding clause, the origins and functions of judicial review, the Quebec secession debate, Aboriginal self-government, and the conception of Canada as a multicultural and multinational mosaic. Through a careful consideration of how Canadian constitutional pluralism with its focus on the rights of others differs from American and British ideas, Canada and the Ethics of Constitutionalism provides engaging answers to contested questions about how Canada was founded and what it has become.
Book Synopsis Multiculturalism in Canada by : Hugh Donald Forbes
Download or read book Multiculturalism in Canada written by Hugh Donald Forbes and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-10-12 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Multiculturalism is often thought to be defined by its commitment to diversity, inclusivity, sensitivity, and tolerance, but these established values sometimes require contrary practices of homogenization, exclusion, insensitivity, and intolerance. Multiculturalism in Canada clarifies what multiculturalism is by relating it to more basic principles of equality, freedom, recognition, authenticity, and openness. Forbes places both official Canadian multiculturalism and Quebec's semi-official interculturalism in their historical and constitutional setting, examines their relations to liberal democratic core values, and outlines a variety of practical measures that would make Canada a more open country and a better illustration of what a commitment to egalitarian cultural pluralism now means. Consisting of a series of connected essays-including careful considerations of the works of Will Kymlicka and Charles Taylor-this book provides the first comprehensive account of multiculturalism in Canada.
Book Synopsis Misrecognized Materialists by : Matt James
Download or read book Misrecognized Materialists written by Matt James and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book with provocative implications for students and scholars of social movements and identity politics, Misrecognized Materialists offers a fresh and important perspective on Canada's constitutional struggles over civic symbolism and identity.
Book Synopsis Oh, Oh, Canada! by : William D. Gairdner
Download or read book Oh, Oh, Canada! written by William D. Gairdner and published by BPS Books. This book was released on 2012-05-04 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than two decades, William D. Gairdner has been a major voice from the conservative resistance, primarily through his bestselling books The Trouble with Canada . . . Still, The War Against the Family, and The Trouble with Democracy. Now, in this new book, his passionate, probing, and provocative intellect is hard at work, ranging over hot button issues of the day in the spheres of culture, the family, politics, and science. His quick-hit, entertaining, and rousing chapters include "Late Night Thoughts on Equality," "Baby Seals and Babies," "Mourning Marriage," and "Six Types of Freedom." Here's what the famous conservative thinker William F. Buckley Jr. said about Gairdner's original publication of The Trouble with Canada: "His mobilizing passion wonderfully animates an analytical precision that should be the reason for a national -- binational -- celebration."
Book Synopsis Strategies of Remembrance by : Michael Lane Bruner
Download or read book Strategies of Remembrance written by Michael Lane Bruner and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Most scholars argue that a nation, by definition, has economic, cultural, and ethnic components.
Book Synopsis A Social Geography of Canada by : Guy M. Robinson
Download or read book A Social Geography of Canada written by Guy M. Robinson and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2013-12-30 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays focus on subjects which formed the basis of his life's work -- the changing character of Canadian landscape and society, and the urbanization of that society, including aspects of its historical evolution, its present spacial forms and current social issues.
Book Synopsis William R. McIntyre by : W. McConnell
Download or read book William R. McIntyre written by W. McConnell and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2000-05-04 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using archival resources, interviews with contemporaries, and legal sources, W.H. McConnell traces McIntyre's personal evolution from defending the Charter as a workable counterpoint to established common law principles, to gradual disenchantment with its overuse, by many of his colleagues and the lower courts, for developing social policy. In retrospect McIntyre's reservations have been prophetic: the "interventionist" trend has given rise to considerable criticism of the court by legal professionals, the media, and the Canadian public. He remained, however, a staunch proponent of freedom of expression and, in the Andrews case, framed the pivotal definition of "equality rights" in s.15 of the Charter that is still prevalently applied in Canadian courts. McConnell is persuasive in connecting McIntyre's restrained approach to Charter jurisprudence, especially its relation to governmental legislation, with his upbringing in Moose Jaw during the Depression and his early career at the Bar. This is an original contribution to our understanding both of an important judge and an important era in Canadian legal history.
Book Synopsis Multiculturalism and Immigration in Canada by : Elspeth Cameron
Download or read book Multiculturalism and Immigration in Canada written by Elspeth Cameron and published by Canadian Scholars’ Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Multiculturalism in Canada offers a solid introduction to the history and development of the ideology of multiculturalism in Canada. This ideology, which has become the primary designator of Canadian society, began in the early 1970s when vocal elements in the population who were neither English nor French strongly responded to the investigations of the Committee on Bilingualism and Biculturalism. Given Canada's early racist tendencies, the establishment of multiculturalism was a remarkable shift in public thinking. Many issues associated with immigration have arisen in the public debates around multiculturalism. Some people are convinced that it is a pernicious ideology that enforces the ghettoisation of those different from the mainstream. Others see dangers in the way some aspects of multiculturalism are merely tokens of an all-inclusive society. Still others contend that the voices of ethnicities aside from those of the two charter groups -- English and French -- are scarcely heard and, that worse, those marginalised voices are appropriated by mainstream writers. On the whole, however, Canadians -- especially younger Canadians -- welcome a liberal outlook that is inclusive of a wide variety of ethnicities. For them, and for many immigrants, Canada is a society that is multiple and layered, one rich in meaning. They tend to see Canada as a microcosm of the larger world, one that presents a useful model of tolerance for the world at large. Increasingly, marginalised new Canadians are excelling in the arts communities, telling all Canadians what various aspects of the culture shock of transplantation feels like. This book includes a representative sample of their works.
Book Synopsis The War Against the Family by : William D. Gairdner
Download or read book The War Against the Family written by William D. Gairdner and published by BPS Books. This book was released on 2007-08 with total page 671 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by his own passionate experience as a son, husband, and father, Gairdner offers in this book a forum for a long-overdue debate about the future of the family in Western civilization.
Book Synopsis Constitutional Politics in Canada after the Charter by : Patrick James
Download or read book Constitutional Politics in Canada after the Charter written by Patrick James and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the Charter of Rights and Freedoms was introduced, Canada has experienced more than twenty-five years of constitutional politics and countless debates about the future of Canada. There has, however, been no systematic attempt to identify general theories about Canada's constitutional evolution. Patrick James corrects this oversight. By adding clarity to familiar debates, this succinct assessment of major writings on constitutional politics sharpens our vision of the past � and the future � of the Canadian federation.
Download or read book Canada written by Ronald Lampman Watts and published by IIGR, Queen's University. This book was released on 1989 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
