This text introduces the reader to basic ideas, institutions, and policies associated with Canadian politics and asks about the nature of Canadian democracy, focusing on issues of equality and freedom. This third edition has been updated and revised throughout, and includes material covering the 1997 Federal election. A glossary of key terms has also been included in this edition to provide students with definitions for concepts that may sometimes be unfamiliar and which are important to the understanding of the material covered in this text.
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Politics, we all agree, is a fact of life. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
two older parties, brokerage politics, provincial consent, distinct society clause, political nationality, executive federalism, interest group system, constitutional supremacy, traditional nationalism, federal public service, union pact, official bilingualism, immersion education, national party system, notwithstanding clause, advocacy advertising, equality section, immersion schools, intergovernmental conflict, federal division, entrenched rights, provincial premiers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Supreme Court, Prime Minister, House of Commons, Constitution Act, English Canada, Contemporary Issues, British Columbia, French Canada, Liberal Party, Conservative Party, New Brunswick, Treasury Board, Statistics Canada, The Structures of Governance, Pierre Trudeau, Quiet Revolution, Charlottetown Accord, Progressive Conservative, Catholic Church, Aboriginal Canadians, Conrad Black, English Canadians, World War, Bloc Quebecois New!
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two older parties, brokerage politics, provincial consent, distinct society clause, political nationality, executive federalism, interest group system, constitutional supremacy, traditional nationalism, federal public service, union pact, official bilingualism, immersion education, national party system, notwithstanding clause, advocacy advertising, equality section, immersion schools, intergovernmental conflict, federal division, entrenched rights, provincial premiers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Supreme Court, Prime Minister, House of Commons, Constitution Act, English Canada, Contemporary Issues, British Columbia, French Canada, Liberal Party, Conservative Party, New Brunswick, Treasury Board, Statistics Canada, The Structures of Governance, Pierre Trudeau, Quiet Revolution, Charlottetown Accord, Progressive Conservative, Catholic Church, Aboriginal Canadians, Conrad Black, English Canadians, World War, Bloc Quebecois New!
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- Royal Commission on Newspapers by Canada in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Quebec: Social change and political crisis (Canada in transition series) by Kenneth McRoberts in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley on page 245, page 260, and Back Matter
- The Federalist Papers (Signet Classics) by Alexander Hamilton on page 46, page 240, and Back Matter
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- Under Siege: The Federal NDP in the Nineties by Ian McLeod on 4 pages
- Liberty and Authority in Free Expression Law: The United States and Canada (Law and Society) by Karla K. Gower in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- International Management of the Environment: Pollution Control in North America by Emmett Lombard in Back Matter
- Political Science, Fourth Edition (Comparative Government and Politics) by Rod Hague in Back Matter
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