National Identity

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A Dangerous Deed: The Constitution Act, 1982

A Dangerous Deed: The Constitution Act, 1982

From: Essential Readings in Canadian Government and Politics, 2nd Edition

1983 article by Donald V. Smiley arguing that the gains from enacting the Constitution Act, 1982 were outweighed by damage done to Canada’s legal, political and constitutional order. ; ; 7 $0.70 Add
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A Very Canadian Revolution:

A Very Canadian Revolution:

The Transformation of Backroom Power in Canada's 1968

From: 1968 in Canada

Pierre Elliott Trudeau was the embodiment of Canada’s 1960s: young, hip, and impatient with the status quo, he bounded onto the political scene with fresh ideas and an image to match. Voters in … 17 $1.70 Add
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Canada—A Pioneer in the Management of Constitutional Politics in a Multi-national Society

Canada—A Pioneer in the Management of Constitutional Politics in a Multi-national Society

From: Essential Readings in Canadian Government and Politics, 2nd Edition

2000 essay by Peter H. Russell arguing that Canada stumbled into a management of constitutional politics through incomplete conquests and without rational choice or abstract philosophy. ; ; 6 $0.60 Add
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Canada as a Multinational Democracy

Canada as a Multinational Democracy

From: Essential Readings in Canadian Government and Politics, 2nd Edition

Excerpt of an introduction by James Tully to a study of multinational democracies, setting out what a democratic constitution needs to accommodate members of a multinational society. ; ; 5 $0.50 Add
Canada is Not Back

Canada is Not Back

How Justin Trudeau is in over his head on foreign policy

The election in October 2015 of the Justin Trudeau government was widely considered to herald a new approach to foreign affairs for Canada. Trudeau had campaigned as a staunch advocate for a … 208 View
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Conclusion

Conclusion

From: The Tangled Garden

Sums up book’s argument with a rationale for why it’s important to protect Canadian cultural expression, and why there is still time to do so. 6 $0.60 Add
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Constitutional Politics: In a New Era Canada Returns to Old Methods

Constitutional Politics: In a New Era Canada Returns to Old Methods

From: Essential Readings in Canadian Government and Politics, 2nd Edition

2006 article by Peter H. Russell describing how Canadian constitutional politics moved from an era of large scale reform to an era of quiet, incremental, organic constitutionalism. ; ; 4 $0.40 Add
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Creating the Garden

Creating the Garden

From: The Tangled Garden

Provides a history of Canadian legislation and policy which protected domestic television, radio and other media. Summarizes developments 1920s to 1980s. 19 $1.90 Add
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Equality or Independence

Equality or Independence

From: Essential Readings in Canadian Government and Politics, 2nd Edition

1965 essay by Daniel Johnson adopted by the Union Nationale party as a platform for Quebec independence if Quebec could not achieve equality with the rest of Canada through constitutional reform. ; ; 5 $0.50 Add
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Expanding the Garden

Expanding the Garden

The Mulroney Years

From: The Tangled Garden

A first‑hand account of the development of Canadian culture policy by the Brian Mulroney’s Conservative government (1984 to 1993). Focuses specifically on initiatives by former … 38 $3.80 Add
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Federalism, Nationalism, and Reason

Federalism, Nationalism, and Reason

From: Essential Readings in Canadian Government and Politics, 2nd Edition

1968 essay by Pierre Elliott Trudeau on the concept of Canadian federalism in opposition to nationalism. ; ; 11 $1.10 Add
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For a multicultural, multi-faith, multiracial Canada

For a multicultural, multi-faith, multiracial Canada

A manifesto

From: Home and Native Land

The author argues that leftist critics are right in their anti-state condemnation of multiculturalism, but wrong to not see how popular groups – everyday Canadians – make … 7 $0.91 Add
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Hegemonies, continuities, and discontinuities of multiculturalism and the Anglo-Franco conformity order

Hegemonies, continuities, and discontinuities of multiculturalism and the Anglo-Franco conformity order

From: Home and Native Land

Argues that official multiculturalism serves as a mode of legitimation for an otherwise monocultural Eurocentric Anglo-Franco order. Through it, subaltern ethnicized and racialized … 31 $4.03 Add
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Introduction

Introduction

From: The Tangled Garden

An introduction to the book’s scope and sequence, laying out why Canada’s major media (television networks, newspapers, film industry are suddenly at risk as a result of the advent of … 11 $1.10 Add
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Manifesto

Manifesto

From: The Tangled Garden

Summarizes why Canada’s media industry is at a crisis and why, absent intervention, remaining major media are likely to shut down. Canadian media institutions like Postmedia, the Toronto … 33 $3.30 Add
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Multiculturalism already unbound

Multiculturalism already unbound

From: Home and Native Land

Considers how forms of citizenship participation practiced by Indian immigrants within the multicultural framework of Canada simultaneously configure local and transnational community … 24 $3.12 Add