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Fights of our lives: elections, leadership, and the making of Canada
Par John Duffy. 2002
A study of five pivotal Canadian election campaigns, covering 135 years, each featuring a crucial issue, such as the Constitution,…
and which yielded a nation-altering result. Also covers twenty-nine other federal elections since Confederation, which provide the background against which the five crucial fights come into focus. 2002.Faultlines: struggling for a Canadian vision
Par Jeffrey Simpson. 1993
Political columnist Jeffrey Simpson portrays eight individuals who have been prominent in the public debate about re-defining Canada. The individuals…
are Derek Burney, Mary Eberts, Preston Manning, Clyde Wells, George Erasmus, Joe Fratesi, Lucien Bouchard, and Leon Dion. 1993.FairTax, the truth: answering the critics
Par Neal Boortz, John Linder, Rob Woodall. 2008
In 2005, radio show host Boortz and Georgia congressman Linder wrote "The FairTax Book", presenting a plan designed to eliminate…
federal taxes and the IRS and jump-start the U.S. economy. This follow-up offers new insights, and debunks the negative myths and misrepresentations of their idea. The plan enables Americans to keep all the money in their paychecks; eliminates the fraud, hassle, and waste of the current system; and revolutionizes the way America pays for itself. 2008.Dismantling Canada: Stephen Harper's new conservative agenda
Par Brooke Jeffrey. 2015
Providing fascinating insight into the origins of a new conservative vision for the economy, federalism, and domestic and foreign policies,…
the author critically considers Prime Minister Harper’s successes and failures, and evaluates the likely outcome of his long-term vision for Canada. 2015.Defining moments: dispatches from an unfinished revolution
Par Peter C Newman. 1997
Newman tackles the upheavals which reshaped Canadian society in the 1990s. He talks about the major figures in Canada and…
the issues which rose to prominence. He also continues his chronicle of how Canada is changing as it loses its institutional touchstones, and why Eaton's is the latest icon to fall from grace. 1997.Double vision: the inside story of the Liberals in power
Par Edward Greenspon, Anthony Wilson-Smith. 1996
Two political journalists chart the first year's of Jean Chrétien's government. They discuss the main events of Chrétien's leadership, especially…
the fight against the deficit, and portray the partnership which Chrétien and finance minister Paul Martin have forged. 1996.A collection of essays by 16 contributors, including David Suzuki, Ralph Nader, Kevin Page, Maude Barlow, and Linda McQuaig. These…
and other experts in their fields document key changes put in place by the Harper government in the areas of trade deals, the environment, youth activism, indigenous rights, economic growth, taxes, and wealth and poverty. 2015.Closed chambers: the first eyewitness account of the epic struggles inside the Supreme Court
Par Edward Lazarus. 1998
The author, a Supreme Court law clerk to Justice Harry Blackmun in 1988-89, recounts the methods and procedures the justices…
use in arriving at a decision. Now a federal prosecutor, Lazarus contends that politics has taken the place of debate and compromise. He analyzes court cases to illustrate his concerns. 1998.Cold war Canada: the making of a national insecurity state, 1945-1957
Par Reginald Whitaker, Gary Marcuse. 1994
The authors examine the creation of Canada's Cold War policy, the emergence of the new security state, and the alignment…
of Canada with the United States in the global Cold War. By scrutinizing both general areas and specific events, the authors reveal a systematic state-sponsored repression of communists and the Left. They argue that Canada's role in the Cold War had a chilling effect on the practice of democracy and undermined Canadian political and economic sovereignty. 1994.Canada since 1945: power, politics, and provincialism
Par John English, Robert Bothwell, Ian M Drummond. 1989
The authors present the history and development of Canada since the end of the Second World War. Dividing the books…
into sections based on the different government administrations from 1945 to 1989, they discuss the political and economic policies of each administration, as well as federalism, external affairs, and social and cultural affairs. 1989.Brave new Canada: meeting the challenge of a changing world
Par Fen Osler Hampson, Derek H Burney. 2014
Globalization and the shifting tectonic plates of the international system have led to an increasingly competitive world. If Canada hopes…
to gain advantage from the dramatic developments underway, it will have to aggressively adapt its foreign and domestic policies and priorities under the clear direction of the federal government or accept being left behind. The authors identify the key trends that are reshaping the world's geopolitics and economics and discuss the challenges Canada confronts with the rise of China and other global centres of power. Their examination of a wide range of themes - including the place of pluralistic democratic values in diplomacy, economics, and trade, the ways that Canada should reset relations with its neighbour to the south, as well as how to manage new global security threats - paints a picture of how Canada can become bold, assertive, and confident and easily adjust to a new global landscape. 2014.Canada, Quebec, and the uses of nationalism
Par Ramsay Cook. 1986
Nationalism, writes the author, is a doctrine which asserts that humanity is naturally divided into groups with common characteristics, and…
that these characteristics mean that the groups have a right to control a particular place. Cook uses this definition to discuss the development of nationalism in Canada, and its simultaneous development in Quebec, including cultural, linguistic, and political nationalism. c1986.Cold terror: how Canada nurtures and exports terrorism around the world
Par Stewart Bell. 2004
Canada's lax laws and lack of vigilance have put its neighbours and the world community at risk. Draws on classified…
intelligence documents, front-line accounts, exclusive interviews with senior counterterrorism officials, the victims of terrorist attacks, and terrorists themselves, to provide evidence that Canada is an important base activity for terrorist groups. 2004.Canadian communism: the Stalin years and beyond
Par Norman Penner. 1988
The history of the Communist Party of Canada with comparisons to similar movements in Great Britain, the United States and…
France. Examines the Party's contribution to the establishment of trade unions and aid to Spain's government during the Civil War. Textbook format.Behind closed doors: how the rich won control of Canada's tax system-- and ended up richer
Par Linda McQuaig. 1987
In this examination of the Canadian tax system, the author considers the thousands of wealthy Canadians who do not pay…
taxes. Rather than increasing the tax burden on the wealthy, the government, under the guise of tax reform, is lowering individual tax rates while increasing sales tax. 1987.Becoming Canada: our story, our politics, our future
Par Ken Dryden. 2010
Dryden argues that we have paid a price for having the wrong sense of ourselves as a country - the…
old definition of Canada as genial but sometimes too self-deprecating and ambition-killing is no longer the real story. He observes a sea change taking place among Canadians, who want something more for their country. The ambition of Canada’s policies and the nature of our politics will not change, Dryden says, until we conceive of a new story for the nation. 2010.Students and prominent Canadians respond to the challenge: If you were Prime Minister of Canada, what would you do to…
improve living standards and unite the country? Ideas range from one student's call to abandon partisan politics to Frank Ogden's suggestion of "constructive destruction." 1996.Alien invasion: how the Harris Tories mismanaged Ontario
Par Ruth Cohen. 2001
A collection of essays by professors and teachers, health care workers, and journalists. Using criticism, interviews, commentary, and transcripts of…
government seminars, the authors reveal the techniques used by the Harris government during their two terms. They comment on such issues as the cuts to health care, Walkerton, and public sector strikes. 2001.After the sands: energy and ecological security for Canadians
Par Gordon Laxer. 2015
Despite its oil abundance, with no strategic reserves, Canada is woefully unprepared for the next global oil supply crisis. Political…
economist Gordon Laxer proposes a bold strategy of deep conservation and a Canada-first perspective to ensure that all Canadians have sufficient energy at affordable prices. Canada has all the oil, gas, and coal needed to transition to a low-carbon future. Remarkable hydro power resources give Canadians a large base of renewable energy, which can be expanded with wind, solar, geothermal, and biomass. Few countries have these options in adequate quantities. But, as Laxer argues, Canada will not get there until we overcome the power of vested interests and untangle the trade agreements that block Canadians from secure and fair access to the nation's own energy resources. 2015.An examination of the theory and practice of opposition in Canada, both in Parliament and in provincial legislatures. Extending from…
the pre-Confederation era to the present day, it focuses on whether Canada has developed a coherent tradition of parliamentary opposition. The author argues that Canada has in fact failed to develop such a tradition. He investigates several possible reasons for this failure, including the long dominance of the Liberal party, which arrested the tradition of viewing the opposition as an alternative government; periods of minority government induced by the proliferation of parties; the role of the news media, which have largely displaced Parliament as a forum for commentary on government policy; and, finally, the increasing popularity of calls for direct action in politics. 2013.