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Le débat qui n'a pas eu lieu

Vingt ans plus tard, les constats et les recommandations de la Commission Pepin-Robarts apparaissent-ils encore pertinents, utiles, actuels ? Auraient-ils pu nourrir des débats et des changements politico-constitutionnels ...

Why Canadian Unity Matters and Why Americans Care

Why is Canadian unity important to democratic pluralism worldwide?Democratic pluralism is the ability of different cultural and language communities to find representation under a single set of democratic ...

The Politics of Taxation in Canada

Finalist for the 2002 Donner Prize

The balancing of government budgets after years of chronic deficits has reopened public debates over tax levels, the size of government and proposals for tax reform. ...

The Supreme Court on Trial

By (author) Kent Roach
Categories: Legal systems: judicial powers

The Supreme Court of Canada has been accused of allowing criminals to go free; of permitting tobacco companies to advertise; of being too sympathetic to Aboriginal people; and of usurping democracy on ...

A Good and Wise Measure

In this detailed and fascinating book, Francis Carroll tells the story of the attempts to settle the original boundary between Canada and the United States from the Atlantic coast to the middle of the ...

Telecom Nation

Laurence Mussio examines how federal and provincial public policy tried to keep pace with the diffusion of telecommunications, consumer demand, and a rising tide of technological innovation. Telecommunications ...

Democratic Equality

Are the world’s oldest democracies failing? For most of the past fifty years democratic governments made determined and successful efforts at overcoming the significant inequalities that are the by-product ...

Human Security and the New Diplomacy

By (author) Rob McRae & Don Hubert
Categories: Diplomacy

Written by diplomatic practitioners, Human Security and the New Diplomacy is a straightforward account of challenges already overcome and the prospect for further progress. From the evolution of peace-keeping, ...

A People's Dream

By (author) Dan Russell
Categories: Politics and government

In this provocative and passionate book, Dan Russell outlines the
history of Aboriginal self-government in Canada. He compares it to that
of the United States, where, for over 150 years, tribes have practised ...