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Essential Readings in Canadian Government and Politics
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Status: Available
Author: Peter H. Russell, François Rocher, Debra Thompson, Linda White
ISBN/ISSN: 978-1-55239-317-8
Year: 2009
Description: Text / Softcover / One colour / 476 pages
Instructor's Guide/Teacher's Resource: Not Available
Subject: Political Science
Division: University
Publisher: Emond Montgomery Publications
Contact: Mike Thompson

Regular Price: $49.00

Overview

What are the readings that every student of Canadian politics should be familiar with? While this is a question bound to stir up debate, the authors have endeavoured to answer it with this edited collection of influential essays, debates, reports, book excerpts, pamphlets, speeches, court decisions, academic writings, and more. Dating from Confederation to the present day, this thematically arranged collection will be an asset to any course in Canadian politics.

Content Summary

    Table: Elections and Prime Ministers of Canada
 
PART 1: Understanding Canada
  Introduction
  1. John A. Macdonald, George-Étienne Cartier/Confederation Debates
  2. Henri Bourassa/The French Language and the Future of Our Race
  3. The Rowell-Sirois Commission
  4. The Tremblay Report
  5. Daniel Johnson/Equality or Independence
  6. Pierre Trudeau/Federalism, Nationalism, and Reason
  7. Charles Taylor/Options for a New Canada
  8. Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: People to People, Nation to Nation
  9. Peter H. Russell/Canada: A Pioneer in the Management of Constitutional Politics in a Multinational Society
  10. James Tully/Canada as a Multinational Democracy
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PART 2: Representative Democracy
  Introduction
  11. Fathers of Confederation/"Not Derived from the People"
  12. Alan Cairns/The Electoral System and the Party System in Canada: 1921–1965
  13. John Meisel/Citizen Demands and Government Response
  14. Eugene Forsey/Prorogation Revisited: On Parliament and the Governor General
  15. Janine Brodie, Jane Jenson/The Party System
  16. Donald Savoie/The Rise of Court Government in Canada
  17. Lisa Young/Value Clash: Parliament and Citizens After 150 Years of Responsible Government
  18. Kenneth Carty, William Cross, Lisa Young/A New Canadian Party System
  19. Grace Skogstad/Who Governs? Who Should Govern?
  20. Manon Tremblay, Linda Trimble/Still Different After All These Years?
  21. Tom Flanagan/Only Voters Have the Right to Decide on the Coalition
  22. Various Authors/What Happens Next If PM Loses Vote on Coming Budget?
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PART 3: Social and Political Diversity
  Introduction
 
Section 3.1: Race, Ethnicity, and Multiculturalism
  23. J.S. Woodsworth/Strangers Within Our Gates
  24. Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism
  25. Pierre Trudeau/Statement on Multiculturalism
  26. Guy Rocher/The Ambiguities of a Bilingual and Multicultural Canada
  27. Brian Mulroney/Apology to Japanese Canadians
  28. Daiva Stasiulis, Radha Jhappan/The Fractious Politics of a Settler Society: Canada
  29. Will Kymlicka/Putting Multiculturalism in Perspective
  30. The Bouchard-Taylor Report on Accommodation Practices in Quebec
 
Section 3.2: Aboriginal Peoples
  31. Jean Chrétien/"The White Paper": Statement on Indian Policy
  32. Harold Cardinal/The Unjust Society
  33. Clément Chartier/Aboriginal Rights and Land Issues: The Métis Perspective
  34. John Borrows/Recovering Canada: The Resurgence of Indigenous Law
  35. Taiaiake Alfred/Wasáse: Indigenous Pathways of Action and Freedom
 
Section 3.3: Gender and Sexuality
  36. Report of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women
  37. Bertha Wilson/Will Women Judges Really Make a Difference?
  38. Mary Ellen Turpel/Patriarchy and Paternalism
  39. Miriam Smith/Lesbian and Gay Rights in Canada
  40. Himani Bannerji/The Dark Side of the Nation
  41. Jane Arscott, Linda Trimble/Still Counting
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PART 4: Federalism and Beyond
  Introduction
 
Section 4.1: Intergovernmental Relations
  42. Donald Smiley/The Structural Problem of Canadian Federalism
  43. Alan Cairns/The Governments and Societies of Canadian Federalism
  44. Stéphane Dion/Collaborative Federalism in an Era of Globalization
  45. Richard Simeon, Ian Robinson/The Dynamics of Canadian Federalism
  46. Martin Papillon/Canadian Federalism and the Emerging Mosaic of Aboriginal Multilevel Governance
 
Section 4.2: Constitutional Politics
  47. Government of Quebec/Quebec-Canada: A New Deal
  48. News Report/"The Night of the Long Knives"
  49. Supreme Court of Canada/Quebec Secession Reference
  50. Government of Canada/The Clarity Act
  51. National Assembly of Quebec/Bill 99
  52. Alain Noël/Canada: Love It or Don't Leave It!
  53. François Rocher, Nadia Verrelli/Questioning Constitutional Democracy in Canada
  54. Peter H. Russell/Constitutional Politics: In A New Era Canada Returns to Old Methods
  55. Sujit Choudhry/Constitutional Change in the 21st Century
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PART 5: The Courts and the Charter
  Introduction
 Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
  56. Alan Cairns/The Judicial Committee and Its Critics
  57. Peter H. Russell/The Political Purposes of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
  58. Peter Hogg, A.A. Bushell/The Charter Dialogue Between Courts and Legislatures
  59. Beverly McLachlin/Courts, Legislatures and Executives in the Post-Charter Era
  60. Howard Leeson/The Notwithstanding Clause: A Paper Tiger?
  61. F.L. Morton, Rainer Knopff/The Charter Revolution and the Court Party
  62. Gregory Hein/Interest Group Litigation and Canadian Democracy
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PART 6: Ideologies and Identities
  Introduction
  63. Wilfrid Laurier/Lecture on Political Liberalism
  64. W.W. Campbell/Imperialism in Canada
  65. CCF/The Regina Manifesto
  66. George Grant/Lament for a Nation
  67. Gad Horowitz/Conservatism, Liberalism, and Socialism in Canada
  68. René Lévesque/A Country that Must Be Made
  69. Pierre Vallières/White Niggers of America
  70. Nelson Wiseman/The Pattern of Prairie Politics
  71. William Christian/Harold Innis: Communications and Civilization
  72. Preston Manning/The West Wants In
  73. Don Forbes/Hartz-Horowitz at Twenty
  74. Leo Panitch/Elites, Classes, and Power in Canada
  75. Neil Nevitte/The Decline of Deference
  76. Michael Adams/Fire and Ice
  77. Andrew Cohen/While Canada Slept
  78. Paul Martin/"Defence, Diplomacy, and Development"
  79. Robert Finbow/Atlantic Canada In the Twenty-First Century
  80. Roger Gibbins/Political Action on Stage West
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