Interpreting Quebec's exile within the federation : selected political essays / Guy Laforest ; with the collaboration of Oscar Mejia Mesa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Laforest, Guy, 1955- author.

Contributor:

Mejia Mesa, Oscar, contributor.

Series:

Diversitas ; Volume 20.

Diversitas ; Volume 20

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political science--Early works to 1800.

Political science.

Québec (Province)--Social conditions.

Québec (Province).

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (206 pages) : digital file(s).

Edition:

Éditions scientifiques internationales.

Place of Publication:

Bern Peter Lang International Academic Publishing Group 2015

Brussels, [Belgium] : P.I.E. Peter Lang, 2014.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This book combines the approaches of political theory and of intellectual history to provide a lucid account of Québec's contemporary situation within the Canadian federation. Guy Laforest considers that the province of Québec, and its inhabitants, are exiled within Canada. They are not fully integrated, politically and constitutionally, nor are they leaving the federation, for now and for the foreseeable future. They are in between these two predicaments. Laforest provides insights into the current workings of the Canadian federation, and some of its key figures of the past fifty years, such

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 The Internal Exile of Quebecers in the Canada of the Charter

I. Pierre Trudeau, the Exile of Quebecers, and the Charter

II. To End the Exile

Conclusion

ch. 2 The Contemporary Meaning and Utility of Federalism

I. The Meaning and Utility of Federalism

II. Federalism's Challenges and Problems

ch. 3 Making Sense of Canada as a Federal System: The Relevance of Historical Legacies

I. Historical Legacies: Their Nature, Role, Interrelations, and Contemporary Significance

ch. 4 The Historical and Legal Origins of Asymmetrical Federalism in Canada's Founding Debates: A Brief Interpretive Note

ch. 5 What Canadian Federalism Means in Quebec

I. Interpretive Context

II. Contemporary Trends and Scholarship: Critical Reflections

ch. 6 Lord Durham, French Canada, and Quebec: Remembering the Past, Debating the Future

I. Coming to Terms with Lord Durham's Report in French Canada and Quebec

II. Janet Ajzenstat's Introduction: Debating Lord Durham's Influence on Canada and Assessing Him as a Human Being and as a Thinker

III. A Critical Hermeneutics for the Present and for the Future

ch. 7 Some Reflections on the Bouchard-Taylor Commission

ch. 8 More Distress than Enchantment: The Constitutional Negotiations of November 1981

I. Causes

II. Assessing the Behaviour of Participants

III. Consequences

ch. 9 The Canadian State and the Political Freedom of Quebec: The Ideas of James Tully and Michel Seymour

I. Canada's Political-Constitutional Identity and Quebec's Situation

II. The Philosophical Approaches of James Tully and Michel Seymour

III. From a Straightjacket to a Reworking of Democratic Constitutionalism with Universal Scope

IV. Michel Seymour's Criticism

V. Overall Consideration of the Theses in Light of Seymour's Objections

ch. 10 Trust and Mistrust between Harper and Quebec

I. Some Reflections on Trust and its Derivatives

II. Harper and Quebec

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references .

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ISBN:

3-0352-9915-3

3-0352-9916-1

3-0352-6503-8

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access