Janet Ajzenstat is professor emeritus, political science, McMaster University. Her most recent book on the Canadian constitution is The Once and Future Canadian Democracy: An Essay in Political Thought. ...

Canadians often imagine their country as a multicultural democracy, while a few go further to claim that the country’s diversity can be characterized as multinational in its social and institutional ...

William Tetley, professor of international law, McGill University, was serving as a minister in Robert Bourassa’s cabinet when the October Crisis broke out.

In Governing with the Charter, James Kelly clearly demonstrates that our current democratic deficit is not the result of the Supreme Court’s judicial activism. On the contrary, an activist framers’ ...

In Canadian Foreign Policy: Defining the National Interest Steven Holloway puts the "policy" back into "foreign policy. " By returning to the National Interest Perspective (NIP), this book provides an ...

Generations of intellectuals have debated Canada’s national question. Rather than join the debate, Multicultural Nationalism challenges its logic. The national question is self-defeating: attempts to ...

Comparative Federalism: A Systematic Inquiry is a uniquely comprehensive, analytic, genuinely comparative, and detailed introduction to the study of federalism in theory and practice. Thomas Hueglin and ...

Harvey Lazar is fellow, Institute of Intergovernmental Relations, Queen’s University, and senior research associate, Centre for Global Studies, University of Victoria.

Michael Murphy is lecturer, Department of Political Studies, the University of Otago, and research associate, Institute of Intergovernmental Relations, Queen’s University.

During his 18-year reign as premier of Quebec, Maurice Duplessis dominated the province and shaped it to his image. A brilliant orator and a scathing wit, Duplessis exercised complete control over his ...