Dismantling Canada

Author : Brooke Jeffrey
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780773582514

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Stephen Harper is the first prime minister to represent the new Conservative Party, and the first to declare that his goals include nothing less than changing Canada by entrenching conservative values and replacing the Liberals as the country’s natural governing party. After nine years of a closed-door governing style, his agenda is no longer hidden. As Brooke Jeffrey outlines in compelling detail in Dismantling Canada, Harper’s agenda is driven by a desire to impose order and tradition at home, and to take firm stands on emerging issues abroad. With only thirty-nine per cent of the popular vote in 2011, his government appears to have gone a surprisingly long way towards achieving those objectives, with little or no concerted public opposition. Illuminating the importance and influence of British and especially American right-wing conservatives on Harper’s strategies, the book explains how he has achieved so much through a combination of stealth, pragmatism, and ruthless determination. Providing fascinating insight into the origins of a new conservative vision for the economy, federalism, and domestic and foreign policies, Dismantling Canada explores Harper’s successes and failures, and evaluates the likely outcome of his long-term agenda to change Canada into a country most Canadians would not recognize.

Author : Brooke Jeffrey
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773544819

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A Liberal insider analyzes Stephen Harper's drive to create a new Conservative Canada.

Author : Stephen McBride,John Shields
Publisher : Halifax, N.S. : Fernwood
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Affaires et politique - Canada
ISBN : 1895686814

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Dismantling a Nation by Stephen McBride,John Shields Pdf

Author : Mike Burke,Colin Peter Mooers,John Shields
Publisher : Halifax, N.S. : Fernwood
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Political Science
ISBN : IND:30000075087985

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Restructuring and Resistance by Mike Burke,Colin Peter Mooers,John Shields Pdf

"This collection surveys major areas of neoliberal policy restructuring by various levels of Canadian government. Unlike other academic studies it also considers theoretical and practical issues connected with movements of resistance against the neo-liberal agenda. Part one situates these developments theoretically in the context of globalizing capitalism and the changing role of the state, the labour market, policy formation and federalism. Section two examines six major areas of policy restructuring, ranging from health care and education to human rights and communication policy. The final section considers the strengths and weaknesses of current political strategies of resistance and the new challenges imposed by global capitalist restructuring. This volume provides both a vital assessment of the social consequences of neoliberal restructuring and a provocative contribution to the debate over the renewal of the left in Canada."--pub. desc.

Author : Robyn Maynard
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-18T00:00:00Z
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781552669808

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Policing Black Lives by Robyn Maynard Pdf

Delving behind Canada’s veneer of multiculturalism and tolerance, Policing Black Lives traces the violent realities of anti-blackness from the slave ships to prisons, classrooms and beyond. Robyn Maynard provides readers with the first comprehensive account of nearly four hundred years of state-sanctioned surveillance, criminalization and punishment of Black lives in Canada. While highlighting the ubiquity of Black resistance, Policing Black Lives traces the still-living legacy of slavery across multiple institutions, shedding light on the state’s role in perpetuating contemporary Black poverty and unemployment, racial profiling, law enforcement violence, incarceration, immigration detention, deportation, exploitative migrant labour practices, disproportionate child removal and low graduation rates. Emerging from a critical race feminist framework that insists that all Black lives matter, Maynard’s intersectional approach to anti-Black racism addresses the unique and understudied impacts of state violence as it is experienced by Black women, Black people with disabilities, as well as queer, trans, and undocumented Black communities. A call-to-action, Policing Black Lives urges readers to work toward dismantling structures of racial domination and re-imagining a more just society.

Author : Stephen McBride
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Canada
ISBN : OCLC:1040026039

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Author : Colin McCullough
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Canada
ISBN : 9780773548251

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Canada and the United Nations by Colin McCullough Pdf

A nation of peacekeepers or soldiers? Honest broker, loyal ally, or chore boy for empire? Attempts to define Canada's past, present, and proper international role have often led to contradiction and incendiary debate. Canada and the United Nations seeks to move beyond simplistic characterizations by allowing evidence, rather than ideology, to drive the inquiry. The result is a pragmatic and forthright assessment of the best practices in Canada's UN participation. Sparked by the Harper government's realignment of Canadian internationalism, Canada and the United Nations reappraises the mythic and often self-congratulatory assumptions that there is a distinctively Canadian way of interacting with the world, and that this approach has profited both the nation and the globe. While politicians and diplomats are given their due, this collection goes beyond many traditional analyses by including the UN-related attitudes and activities of ordinary Canadians. Contributors find that while Canadians have exhibited a broad range of responses to the UN, fundamental beliefs about the nation's relationship with the world are shared widely among citizens of various identities and eras. While Canadians may hold inflated views of their country's international contributions, their notions of Canada's appropriate role in global governance correlate strongly with what experts in the field consider the most productive approaches to the Canada-UN relationship. In an era when some of the globe's most profound challenges - climate change, refugees, terrorism, economic uncertainty - are not constrained by borders, Canada and the United Nations provides a timely primer on Canada's diplomatic strengths.

Author : David Este
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-10T00:00:00Z
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781773633909

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Racism and Anti-Racism in Canada by David Este Pdf

Multiculturalism is regarded as a key feature of Canada’s national identity. Yet despite an increasingly diverse population, racialized Canadians are systematically excluded from full participation in society through personal and structural forms of racism and discrimination. Race and Anti-Racism in Canada provides readers with a critical examination of how racism permeates Canadian society and articulates the complex ways to bring about equity and inclusion both individual and systemically.

Author : Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
Publisher : Lorimer
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Law
ISBN : UCSD:31822025973843

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Dismantling Democracy by Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Pdf

Contents: 1 The MAI and Its Implications for Canadians 2 Multilateral Deregulation of Investment 3 The MAI and Competitive Austerity 4 The MAI and Labour Standards 5 The MAI and Environmental Regulation 6 The MAI and National and International Development 7 The MAI and Canada - Sectoral Impacts

Author : UUA Commission on Institutional Change
Publisher : Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781558968615

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Widening the Circle of Concern by UUA Commission on Institutional Change Pdf

Appointed by the Board of Trustees of the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations in 2017, the UUA Commission on Institutional Change served through June 2020. Widening the Circle of Concern: Report of the UUA Commission on Institutional Change represents the culmination of the Commission’s work analyzing structural and systemic racism and white supremacy culture within Unitarian Universalism and makes recommendations to advance long-term cultural and institutional change that redeems the essential promise and ideals of Unitarian Universalism. The members and staff of the UUA Commission on Institutional Change were Chair Rev. Leslie Takahashi, Mary Byron, Cir L’Bert Jr., Rev. Dr. Natalie Fenimore, Dr. Elías Ortega, Caitlin Breedlove, DeReau K. Farrar, and Project Manager Rev. Marcus Fogliano.

Author : International Monetary Fund. Western Hemisphere Dept.
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 73 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781498322034

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Author : Derek H. Burney,Fen Osler Hampson
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780228002185

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Braver Canada by Derek H. Burney,Fen Osler Hampson Pdf

The world is changing - geopolitically and economically - at an alarmingly fast pace. Populism, protectionism, and authoritarianism are on the rise. Braver Canada analyzes these and many other global shifts, offering provocative prescriptions for both the public and the private sectors. Reviewing the foreign policy challenges, achievements, and missteps of the Justin Trudeau government, Derek Burney and Fen Hampson argue that the country's leadership must craft a new approach to global affairs based on a solid grasp of current and emerging global political and economic realities. They focus on competitiveness, trade, energy, environment, and immigration and refugee issues, also discussing a recalibration of relations with China and India. Expanding on the ideas and policy recommendations in their previous book, Brave New Canada, which called for Canada to diversify its economic ties outside the United States, they note how the global and regional environment has shifted dramatically in recent years. A timely and compelling analysis, Braver Canada lays out the challenges for Canada in a rapidly changing, turbulent world and the strategies required for future prosperity.

Author : Jean-François Lisée
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1550284665

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The Trickster by Jean-François Lisée Pdf

A much-discussed bestseller in Quebec, The Trickster tells the inside story of political events in that province during the tumultuous two years that followed the defeat of Meech Lake. As support for Quebec sovereignty reached record proportions, Premier Robert Bourassa had a clear opportunity to lead his province out of Confederation. For months he led Quebecers to believe that he was moving in this direction, while he privately assured prominent English Canadians that he was loyal to federalism. Based on interviews with a wide range of political figures, strategists, pollsters and researchers, The Trickster is an umparalleled examination of a crucial period in Quebec's history.

Author : Kurt Hübner
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136741319

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Europe, Canada and the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement by Kurt Hübner Pdf

The Great Recession and the turn towards all forms of protectionism stress the relevance of international trade policy. With the global economy undergoing deep structural changes, the negotiations between Canada and the EU on a Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) present a real-time experiment that sheds light on the direction that the relationships between two economic units of the G8 will take. For Canada, an agreement with the EU would end its current dependency on the US; for the EU, an agreement with Canada would be a first with a G8-economy and indicate how its new trade strategy ‘Global Europe’ will look like. This book is the first to simultaneously analyze the undercurrents of this project and introduce the main topics at hand. CETA is much more than a simple free trade agreement, its breadth covers regulatory aspects in goods, services, and finance; the opening of public procurement markets; attitudes and policies of Canadian provinces towards liberalization; climate policies and international leadership claims of the EU in comparison to Canadian policy attempts; the challenges of the Euro project and the reform efforts; and the challenges of the Euro as a international reserve currency. CETA is a challenging project that will kick-start enormous changes in trade policy-making as well as in market openness in Canada. It will mark the EU’s efforts to re-make the Atlantic Economy. This book provides deep insights into the ambiguity of the project and addresses the implications of a rapidly changing global economy for trade policy. Offering analysis of the financial industry, banking, trade policy, climate change strategy, and the Euro exchange rate, this book should be of interest to students and policy-makers alike.

Author : Augie Fleras
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781554589548

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Racisms in a Multicultural Canada by Augie Fleras Pdf

In acknowledging the possibility that as the world changes so too does racism, this book argues that racism is not disappearing, despite claims of living in a post-racial and multicultural world. To the contrary, racisms persist by transforming into different forms whose intent or effects remain the same: to deny and disallow as well as to exclude and exploit. Racisms in a Multicultural Canada is organized around the assumption that race is not simply a set of categories and that racism is not just a collection of individuals with bad attitudes. Rather, racism is as much a matter of interests as of attitudes, of property as of prejudice, of structural advantage as of personal failing, of whiteness as of the “other,” of discourse as of discrimination, and of unequal power relations as of bigotry. This multi-dimensionality of racism complicates the challenge of formulating anti-racism and anti-colonialist strategies capable of addressing it. Employing a critical framework that puts politics and power at the centre of analysis, this book focuses on why racisms proliferate, how they work in contemporary societies, and how the way we think and talk about racism changes over time. Specifically, it examines the working of contemporary racisms in a multicultural Canada that claims to abide by principles of multiculturalism and a commitment to a post-racial society.