Shall we dance? : a patriotic politics for Canada / Charles Blattberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blattberg, Charles.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political participation--Canada.

Political participation.

Patriotism--Canada.

Patriotism.

National characteristics, Canadian.

Civil society--Canada.

Civil society.

Canada--Politics and government.

Canada.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Charles Blattberg shows that while a just politics based on dialogue is at the core of Canadians' sense of ourselves as citizens, our current forms of dialogue are inadequate. To some, we should be pleading before authorities responsible for upholding a unified foundation for our politics. Pierre Trudeau and his followers, for example, advocate a Charter of Rights and Freedoms that trumps any values not contained within it. To others, we ought to be true to the longstanding Canadian political tradition of compromise and so negotiate our conflicts, a form of dialogue that strives for accommodation rather than trumping. Blattberg argues, however, that both of these approaches have largely failed us. To him, the preferred form of dialogue in Canadian politics today should be that of conversation. As he shows, only conversation aims for the genuine reconciliation of conflict; only it will help us realize the common good that is at the heart of a truly patriotic Canadian politics.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Preface

Introduction: A Canadian Home?

Responding to Conflict: Three Ways, Three Canadas

Who We Were

Who We Are

Who We Could Be

Conclusion: Divide and Listen

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references: p. [171]-187.

ISBN:

1-282-86119-0

9786612861192

0-7735-7109-4

OCLC:

180773034