The Liberal Idea Of Canada

Author : James Laxer,Robert Laxer
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1977-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0888621248

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The Liberal Idea of Canada by James Laxer,Robert Laxer Pdf

Canada in the late 1970s was beset by severe constitutional and economic problems. Public debate on these issues, dominated by the ideas of Pierre Trudeau, was extremely limited in scope and failed to provide any compelling sense of hope for the future. James Laxer and Robert Laxer seek out the roots of this dilemma with an analysis of the basic strategies of the Liberal Party's system of governing Canada, instituted by Wilfrid Laurier and refined by the governments of Mackenzie King, Louis St. Laurent and Lester Pearson. The political legacy that Pierre Trudeau inherited in 1968, they argue, was flawed in both its methods of dealing with an enduring French Canadian nationalism and its shaky underpinnings in Canada's branch-plant economy. First published in 1977, The Liberal Idea of Canada remains a wide-ranging and insightful analysis of the ideological foundations of Canada's dominant political party.

Author : James"" ""Laxer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1459327373

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The Liberal Idea of Canada by James"" ""Laxer Pdf

Author : Leen D'Haenens
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Canada
ISBN : 9780776604893

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Images of Canadianness by Leen D'Haenens Pdf

Images of Canadianness offers backgrounds and explanations for a series of relevant--if relatively new--features of Canada, from political, cultural, and economic angles. Each of its four sections contains articles written by Canadian and European experts that offer original perspectives on a variety of issues: voting patterns in English-speaking Canada and Quebec; the vitality of French-language communities outside Quebec; the Belgian and Dutch immigration waves to Canada and the resulting Dutch-language immigrant press; major transitions taking place in Nunavut; the media as a tool for self-government for Canada's First Peoples; attempts by Canadian Indians to negotiate their position in society; the Canada-US relationship; Canada's trade with the EU; and Canada's cultural policy in the light of the information highway.

Author : Christo Aivalis
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780774837163

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The Constant Liberal by Christo Aivalis Pdf

Pierre Elliott Trudeau – radical progressive or unavowed socialist? His legacy remains divisive. The Constant Liberal traces the charismatic politician’s relationship with the left and labour movements throughout his career. Christo Aivalis argues that Trudeau was in fact a consistently classic liberal, driven by individualist and capitalist principles. This comprehensive analysis showcases the interplay between liberalism and democratic socialism that defined Trudeau’s world view – and shaped his use of power. The Constant Liberal suggests that Trudeau’s leftist activity was less a call for social democracy than a warning to fellow liberals that lack of reform could undermine liberal-capitalist social relations.

Author : Jean-Francois Constant,Michel Ducharme
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009-04-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442693067

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Liberalism and Hegemony by Jean-Francois Constant,Michel Ducharme Pdf

In 2000, Ian McKay, a highly respected historian at Queen's University, published an article in the Canadian Historical Review entitled "The Liberal Order Framework: A Prospectus for a Reconnaissance of Canadian History." Written to address a crisis in Canadian history, this detailed, programmatic, and well-argued article had an immediate impact on the field. Proposing that Canadian history should be mapped through a process of reconnaisance, and that the Canadian state should be understood as a project of liberal rule in North America, the essay prompted debate immediately upon publication. Liberalism and Hegemony assembles some of Canada's finest historians to continue the debate sparked by McKay's essay. The essays collected here explore the possibilities and limits presented by "The Liberal Order Framework" for various segments of Canadian history, and within them, the paramount influence of liberalism throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is debated in the context of aboriginal history, environmental history, the history of the family, the development of political thought and ideas, and municipal governance. Like McKay's "The Liberal Order Framework," which is included in this volume with a response to recent criticism, Liberalism and Hegemony is a fascinating foray into current historical thought and provides the historical community with a book that will act both as a reference and a guide for future research.

Author : Janet Ajzenstat,Peter J. Smith
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Canada
ISBN : 9780886292744

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Canada's Origins by Janet Ajzenstat,Peter J. Smith Pdf

Ajzenstat and Smith challenge the idea of Canada as a country whose liberal individualism, unlike that of the United States, is redeemed by a tradition of government intervention in economic and social life: the so-called "tory touch." This ground-breaking book begins with the now classic article in which the red tory view was formulated. It then presents a new and illuminating picture of Canadian political life, in which liberal individualism confronts not toryism but the participatory tradition of civic republicanism. In the final section the two editors, one a liberal, the other a civic republican, debate the crucial questions dominating Canadian politics today-including Quebec's search for recognition-from the perspective of their shared understanding of Canada's founding.

Author : Peter C. Newman
Publisher : Random House Canada
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780307358288

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When the Gods Changed by Peter C. Newman Pdf

Peter C. Newman, Canada's most "cussed and discussed" political journalist, on the death spiral of the Liberal Party. The May 2, 2011 federal election turned Canadian governance upside down and inside out. In his newest and possibly most controversial book, bestselling author Peter C. Newman argues that the Harper majority will alter Canada so much that we may have to change the country's name. But the most lasting impact of the Tory win will be the demise of the Liberal Party, which ruled Canada for seven of the last ten decades and literally made the country what it is. Newman chronicles, in bloody detail, the de-construction of the Grits' once unassailable fortress and anatomizes the ways in which the arrogance embedded in the Liberal genetic code slowly poisoned the party's progressive impulses. When the Gods Changed is the saga of a political self-immolation unequalled in Canadian history. It took Michael Ignatieff to light the match.

Author : Katherine Fierlbeck
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2006-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442604254

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Political Thought in Canada by Katherine Fierlbeck Pdf

What, if anything, makes Canada's political identity unique? Pollsters can measure values, but they cannot explain how these values arose over time, why they changed, or how people have attempted to make sense of them within a changing social and political environment. By examining the history of political ideas in Canada, we can better understand why Canada takes the shape that it does. In this book, Katherine Fierlbeck looks at the legacy of ideas taken from (or shaped in reaction to) the nations that have been most influential to Canada's development: the United Kingdom and the United States. The first section looks specifically at the nature of toryism, constitutional liberalism, and market liberalism. Then she examines the evolution of social justice in Canada. Does the country have, as J.S. Woodsworth hoped, a definitive "third way"? The final section focuses upon debates over cultural identity and minority rights. Contemporary political discussions in Canada are very much based upon the expressions of French-Canadian nationalism that have existed as long as, and perhaps even longer than, the country itself. How have these ideas influenced current thinking about culture and accommodation? The experiences;characterized by Canadian political thought also provide insight and ideas for nations around the world as their citizens struggle with similar questions. The political dynamics of the present are a product of how Canadians have viewed their country, or a vision of their country, in the past. These ideas of Canada, in history and in myth, provide a way of thinking about politics that may provoke and inspire Canadians—and others—to reflect upon their future.

Author : Frank Hawkins Underhill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Canada
ISBN : UCAL:B4470065

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In Search of Canadian Liberalism by Frank Hawkins Underhill Pdf

Author : Will Kymlicka
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0198278713

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Liberalism, Community, and Culture by Will Kymlicka Pdf

Examines the nature and value of community and culture from a liberal viewpoint, and links the theories under discussion to more familiar liberal views on individual rights and state neutrality.

Author : Janet Ajzenstat
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2003-10-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780773571686

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Once and Future Canadian Democracy by Janet Ajzenstat Pdf

To revitalize politics we need to abandon the idea that ideologies evolve from "right" to "left", from conservatism to socialism, and look at our political differences in terms of the distinction, more familiar in the arts, between classicism and romanticism. She argues that by abandoning our current modes of debate and rediscovering the Enlightenment liberalism that is an enduring part of our political tradition we will help to recreate Canada as a place of debate on fundamentals, not one in which a monolithic definition of identity answers all questions in advance.

Author : Stephen Clarkson
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780774840408

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The Big Red Machine by Stephen Clarkson Pdf

In The Big Red Machine, astute Liberal observer Stephen Clarkson tells the story of the Liberal Party's performance in the last nine elections, providing essential historical context for each and offering incisive, behind-the-scenes detail about how the party has planned, changed, and executed its successful electoral strategies. Arguing that the Liberal Party has opportunistically straddled the political centre since Sir John A. Macdonald -- leaning left or moving right and as circumstances required -- Clarkson also shows that the party's grip on power is becoming increasingly uncertain, having lost its appeal not just in the West, but now in Qu�bec. Its campaigns now reflect the splintering of the party system and the integration of Canada into the global economy.

Author : D. W. Livingstone
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780773597846

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Liberal Education, Civic Education, and the Canadian Regime by D. W. Livingstone Pdf

Shortly after Canadian confederation, Thomas D'Arcy McGee proclaimed that education was "an essential condition of our political independence" and that its role was to form citizens for the new regime. Comparing this idea of education for citizenship, or civic education, to the modern goals of education, Liberal Education, Civic Education, and the Canadian Regime explores the founders' principles, their sources, and the challenges that threaten their vision for Canada. The collection's first essays analyze the political thought of early Canadians such as Brown, McGee, Ryerson, and Bourinot, while later chapters examine enduring principles of liberal democracy derived from Aristotle, de Tocqueville, and Hobbes. The final chapters bring the discussion forward to such topics as the decline of Canadian Catholic liberal arts colleges and the emerging role of our Supreme Court as a self-appointed "moral tutor." Moreover, as it deals with the changing roles of universities in contemporary Canada, Liberal Education, Civic Education, and the Canadian Regime engages current debates about the value and place of a traditional liberal education and the consequences of turning our back on the concepts that inspired our founding leaders. Considering whether Canada’s early documents and traditions can revive past debates and shed light on contemporary issues, this highly original collection presents education as an essential condition of our independence and asks whether current educational principles are threatening Canadians’ capacity for self-government.

Author : Liberal Party of Canada. Summer Conference (1st : 1933 : Port Hope)
Publisher : Toronto ; Vancouver : J.M. Denr & sons Limited
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1933
Category : Canada
ISBN : UOM:39015033487391

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The Liberal Way by Liberal Party of Canada. Summer Conference (1st : 1933 : Port Hope) Pdf

Author : Christo Aivalis
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0774837152

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The Constant Liberal by Christo Aivalis Pdf

Pierre Elliott Trudeau – radical progressive or unavowed socialist? His legacy remains divisive. The Constant Liberal traces the charismatic politician’s relationship with the left and labour movements throughout his career. Christo Aivalis argues that Trudeau was in fact a consistently classic liberal, driven by individualist and capitalist principles. This comprehensive analysis showcases the interplay between liberalism and democratic socialism that defined Trudeau’s world view – and shaped his use of power. The Constant Liberal suggests that Trudeau’s leftist activity was less a call for social democracy than a warning to fellow liberals that lack of reform could undermine liberal-capitalist social relations.