Quebec versus Ottawa : The Struggle for Self-Government, 1960-72 / Claude Morin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morin, Claude, Author.

Contributor:

Howard, Richard, 1940-

Series:

Heritage

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Québec (Province)--Politics and government--1960-.

Québec (Province).

Federal government--Canada.

Federal government.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (164 pages)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

From 1963 to 1971, during a period that witnessed growing stress and strain in Quebec's relations with the federal government, Claude Morin was Deputy Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs in Quebec. In setting forth his point of view on many of the issues and conflicts with Ottawa, from the pension plan to the constitutional conferences, this book should help English-speaking Canadians to an understanding of the Québécois ideas of federalism during these years and of how people in Quebec can come to believe that sovereignty is essential. Quebec versus Ottawa is an edited and updated translation by Richard Howard of Le Pouvoir Québécois...en négotiation, published in French in 1972, and Le Combat québécois (1973). It thus has two parts 'Experience,' dealing more with the facts of Quebec-Ottawa relations during the troubled sixties, and 'Answers,' describing the structure and rules of Canadian federalism as the author experience them.M. Morin is not presenting arguments for the independence of Quebec but is rather recording and evaluating his experience of how our government works - a rare thing for a senior civil servant to do.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

A Note on the Translation

Preface to the English Edition

PART 1 EXPERIENCES

1. The Gains of the Sixties: What were they?

2. A Beginning: The Pension Plan

3. A Liberty Surveyed: The Shared Cost Programs

4. Give Us Our Treasure: Fiscal Sharing

5. The Urban Guerrilla: Housing and Renewal

6. Special Friendships: France and Quebec

7. Liaisons dangereuses: The International Conferences

8. A Piece of Leaven?: Quebec in Federal Policy

9. End of a Dream: The Constitutional Review

PART 2. ANSWERS

10. The Golden Calf: Ottawa's Suit

11. The Gospel According to Saint Ottawa

12. Fellow Travellers: The Conference Room

13. The Fifth Column, and the Sixth

14. The Silent Majority

15. The Magnetic Pendulum: Growing Imbalance

16. On to Ottawa: The Logic of the System

17. The Government is Ourselves

18. Conclusion: The Present Imperative

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019)

ISBN:

1-4875-7820-2

OCLC:

1129220169