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1. The Anatomy of Mega-Constitutional Politics: the Charlottetown Accord's Rise, Fall & Impact.

Author

Behiels, Michael D.

Subjects
CANADIAN federal government, CANADIAN politics & government, CANADIANS
Abstract

The Charlottetown Consensus Report and its rejection by Canadians in the referendum of October 1992 represents a major turning point in the prolonged and controversial mega-constitutional reform process which began in the 1960s. Canadians were called up to choose between competing models of Canadian federalism: the existing model based on two levels of government, each sovereign in its own areas or jurisdiction, or a new model of based on several nations, both stateless and state-based, exercising self-governance in a multilayered federal system. This paper explores why a majority of Canadians, for a wide variety of very complex reasons, opted to retain the existing model of federalism. This paper argues that this fundamental debate over the nature of Canadian federalism and the first ever national Constitutional referendum, while contributing to the severe political crisis surrounding the 1995 referendum on Quebec secession, facilitated the process whereby Canadians finally became a sovereign people. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2007

2. Quebec Anglophones, Ethnic Conflict, and Linguistic Peace.

Author

Green, William

Subjects
*LANGUAGE & languages, *HUMAN rights, *EDUCATIONAL law & legislation, *JUSTICE administration, CANADIAN politics & government
Abstract

Canadian politics has been defined by Quebec's vision of the province as a linguistically distinct society and dominated by the question: does Quebec share enough in common with the Rest of Canada to remain in the federation? At the same time, another Canadian language rights issue has occupied the margins of national awareness and provincial debate: does Quebec's Anglophone minority have the freedom to conduct its business in English and a linguistic right to have its children educated in English? My paper will, first of all, examine the political and legal strategies used by Quebec Anglophones to mount macro-constitutional challenges to the Quebec government's secession efforts, to initiate micro-constitutional challenges to the Quebec government's language-based commercial signs and public education policies as violations of the Quebec and Canadian Charters of Rights, and to appeal Canadian court decisions to international judicial bodies claiming that these provincial language policies violate the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Second, this paper will analyze the decisions of the Quebec courts, the Canadian Supreme Court, and United Nations Human Rights Committee and their meaning for Quebec Anglophone experience, provincial peace, and national unity. Third, this paper will compare the Canadian experience to those of other nations which have experienced linguistic and ethnic conflict and examine the political and legal strategies used by language minorities and of provincial, national, and international judicial bodies in addressing and resolving these conflicts. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2006

3. A Catholic Journey: Paul Martin Sr., Politics, and Faith.

Author

DONAGHY, Greg

Subjects
*CHURCH & state, *TWENTIETH century, *RELIGION, CANADIAN politics & government, HISTORY of the Catholic Church & state, QUEBECOIS politics & government, CANADIAN economy
Abstract

Catholicism defined the private life and public career of Paul Martin Sr. (1903-92), one of Canada's leading Liberal politicians in the decades after World War Two. His youthful Catholicism shaped his approach to political life and sanctified his ambition. As a young man, he rejected the classical conservatism of a junior seminary in Québec, embracing instead the more tolerant version of Catholicism he encountered during the 1920s at the University of St. Michael's College within the Protestant University of Toronto. This paper explores Martin's early faith experiences, and examines the resulting philosophy of social justice and political change that drove this young Catholic to challenge the status quo in Depression Canada, and to help erect the contemporary welfare state in the 1940s and 1950s. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2013

4. Filling the federal vacuum.

Author

McFeely, Tom

Subjects
*SECESSION, CANADIAN politics & government
Abstract

Relates that the Canada West Foundation has released four papers with solutions to some of the conundrums posed by Quebec's potential secession. Ideas in the four `Reconfederation Papers' including provincial vetoes, sovereignty negotiation and partition; Foundation President David Elton's comments on why a reconfederation council is needed.

Published
1996

5. Nationalism and the Solitudes.

Author

Lincoln, Michael

Subjects
NATIONALISM, LIBERALISM, QUEBECOIS politics & government, CANADIAN politics & government, POLITICAL philosophy
Abstract

Copyright of International Journal of Canadian Studies is the property of University of Toronto Press and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

Published
2014
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6. RECENT TRENDS IN FEDERALISM AND INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS IN CANADA: LESSONS FOR THE UK?

Author

Simeon, Richard

Subjects
SECESSION, CANADIAN politics & government, DECENTRALIZATION in government, CONSTITUTIONS, DECISION making
Abstract

Canadians believe that successful constitutional change is impossible in the near future. Attempts to meet continued demands for independence for Quebec with a form of distinctive status within the confederation reached an impasse early in the 1990s with the popular rejection of successive agreements on the principle reached at federal and provincial government level. Debate centres on whether a devolution-style solution for Quebec would lead to stability or eventual independence from the federation, which has continued to evolve into an equal partnership between federal and provincial governments. The author examines the implications of the Supreme Court ruling of 1998 both for the secessionist case and for the other parties to the federation, and makes a comparison with the devolution process in the United Kingdom. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2000
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7. WHITHER CANADA?

Author

Stanley, Guy

Subjects
CANADIAN politics & government, SOVEREIGNTY, POLITICAL autonomy, TWENTIETH century
Abstract

Focuses on the domestic crisis faced by Canada. Increase in pressures for sovereignty-association; Association of Quebec independence with outcome of the current crisis; Consequence of domestic crisis for the organization of North America.

Published
1992
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8. The Scrapper's Fight.

Author

Wallace, Bruce

Subjects
CANADIAN politics & government, QUEBEC autonomy & independence movements, REFERENDUM, POLITICAL science
Abstract

Discusses Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien's controversial proposal for a Quebec province independence referendum. How the rules would conform to the 1998 Supreme Court's opinion that Quebec can not separate unless it wins clear majority in a referendum on a clear question; Political opposition to the idea.

Published
1999

9. HIS OWN MAN.

Author

Aubin, Benoit

Subjects
CANADIAN politics & government
Abstract

This article reports on the death of Quebec editorialist and politician, Claude Ryan, from cancer. The passing of Claude Ryan, the respected Quebec editorialist and politician who died of cancer in Montreal last week, triggered a torrent of fond testimonials from people who had known him throughout his many careers: as a reformist Catholic militant, publisher, politician, and éminence grise of successive Quebec governments. But you had to know him well to love the man--as a public figure, Ryan(Claude Ryan) was more respected than popular. Those who did work for him called him le Bonhomme -- the Fogey. Ryan's passing, at 79, forces us to pause and contemplate how fast the world has changed.

Published
2004