A comprehensive examination of Canadian federalism and its evolution from 1867 to the present.

Unfulfilled union: Canadian federalism and national unity (Canadian controversies series)

Business & Money

Stevenson, Garth

Economics

Macmillan of Canada

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Gage Pub

Unfulfilled Union Canadian Federalism and National Unity

Gage

Beginning with brief accounts of the origins of Confederation and the economic, social, and political characteristics of late nineteenth-century Canada, Stevenson recounts the major issues that occupied the intergovernmental agenda. Liquor regulation in Ontario, land reform in Prince Edward Island, reluctant acceptance of Confederation in Nova Scotia, chronic financial problems in Quebec, controversy over Catholic schools in New Brunswick, and the roots of Western alienation in Manitoba and British Columbia are all described in detail. Stevenson then examines the process of intergovernmental relations and the significance of particular practices and institutions such as disallowance, reservation, federal-provincial conferences, and judicial review. In the final chapter he summarizes the evolution of Canadian federalism up to 1896 and briefly relates it to the current state of Canadian federalism. Based on extensive archival research, this book will interest political scientists, historians, and anyone curious to know the background of Canada's federal crisis.

Ex Uno Plures: Federal-Provincial Relations in Canada, 1867-1896

History

Americas

McGill-Queen's University Press

In Community Besieged Garth Stevenson describes the unusual circumstances that allowed English-speaking Quebecers to live in virtual isolation from their francophone neighbours for almost a century after Confederation. He describes their relations with Maurice Duplessis and the Union Nationale and their ambivalent response to the Quiet Revolution. New political issues - language policy, educational reform, sovereignty, and the constitution - undermined the old system of elite accommodation in Quebec, causing conflicts between anglophones and francophones and creating a new sense of anglophone identity that transcends religious differences. The changing relations of Quebec anglophones with the major political parties, as well as the role of newer entities such as Alliance Quebec and the Equality Party, are also examined. Stevenson concludes with a look at the future of anglophones in Quebec. Based in part on interviews with more than sixty English-speaking Quebecers who have played prominent parts in Quebec's political life, Community Besieged is a comprehensive and up-to-date description of the political life of this unique minority at both the federal and provincial level.

Community Besieged: The Anglophone Minority and the Politics of Quebec

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

In Unfulfilled Union Garth Stevenson examines such topics as the origins and objectives of Confederation and the BNA Act of 1867, the interpretation of Canada's federal constitution by the courts, the impact of economic regionalism and Quebec nationalism, financial relations between the federal and provincial levels of government, the consequences of federalism for economic policy, the sources of federal-provincial conflicts and the means to resolve them, and the lengthy but inconclusive efforts to reform the constitution through federal-provincial agreement, particularly since Quebec's Quiet Revolution in the 1960s. Although institutional factors such as the defects of the original constitution and the sometimes questionable interpretations of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council are given due attention, Stevenson emphasizes the political economy of Canada, including its relationship with the United States, and the vitality of Quebec nationalism as the major reasons Canada has not achieved the same level of centralization and stability as other federations in the industrialized world. This updated edition of Unfulfilled Union includes a new introduction that discusses the extensive changes that have taken place in Canadian federalism since that time.

Unfulfilled Union: Canadian Federalism and National Unity

Parallel Paths: The Development of Nationalism in Ireland and Quebec (Volume 5) (Stud in Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict)

Surveying the development of nationalism in Ireland and Quebec, from British conquest to the struggles for Irish unity and Quebec sovereignty, this book explains the similarities between the two nationalisms, but also the reasons why they sometimes followed different paths.

Parallel Paths: The Development of Nationalism in Ireland and Quebec (Studies in Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict) (Volume 5)

A comprehensive examination of Canadian federalism and its evolution from 1867 to the present.

Unfulfilled Union: Canadian Federalism and National Unity, Fifth Edition

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Unfulfilled union: Canadian federalism and national unity (Canadian controversies series)

Unfulfilled union: Canadian federalism and national unity (Canadian controversies series)

Unfulfilled Union Canadian Federalism and National Unity

Ex Uno Plures: Federal-Provincial Relations in Canada, 1867-1896

Ex Uno Plures: Federal-Provincial Relations in Canada, 1867-1896

Community Besieged: The Anglophone Minority and the Politics of Quebec

Unfulfilled Union: Canadian Federalism and National Unity

Parallel Paths: The Development of Nationalism in Ireland and Quebec (Studies in Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict) (Volume 5)

Parallel Paths: The Development of Nationalism in Ireland and Quebec (Volume 5) (Stud in Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict)

Unfulfilled Union: Canadian Federalism and National Unity, Fifth Edition