This chapter is premised on the idea that Trudeau was the product of a society (Quebec and Canada) that, since the nineteen-sixties, tended to adopt more explicitly the American approach to rights.
Linda Cardinal is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Ottawa. She has published widely on linguistic minorities as well as on identity and citizenship issues in Canada. She also has a special interest in Canadian and Quebec political theory. She is author of L'engagement de la pensée(1997), Chroniques d'une vie politique mouvementée. L'Ontario francophone de 1986 a 1996 (2001), and has co-edited Shaping Nations: Constitutionalism and Society in Australia and Canada with David Headon (2002). She is the Editor of Politique et Sociétés, the journal of the Quebec association of political science.
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