Author: Canada. Prime Minister's OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : fr
Pages : 5
Book Description
Opening Statement by the Prime Minister At the First Ministers' Conference, Ottawa, November 2, 1981
Author: Canada. Prime Minister's OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 5
Book Description
Opening Statement by the Prime Minister at the First Ministers' Conference, Ottawa, Nov. 2, 1981
Author: Canada. Prime MinisterStatement by the Prime Minister At the End of the Opening Session of the First Ministers' Conference, Ottawa, November 2, 1981
Author: Canada. Prime Minister's OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 5
Book Description
Transcript of the Prime Minister's Statement At the Commencement of the Closing Session of the First Ministers' Conference, Conference Centre, Ottawa, November 5, 1981
Author: Canada. Prime Minister's OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : fr
Pages : 5
Book Description
The History of Canada Series - The Last Act: Pierre Trudeau
Author: Ron GrahamPublisher: Penguin Canada
ISBN: 0143180509
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Between the morning of Wednesday, November 4, and the morning of Thursday, November 5, 1981, a fateful drama unfolded that changed Canada forever. In one last attempt to renew the constitution with the consent of the provinces, Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau met behind closed doors in Ottawa with the ten premiers. It was the culmination of more than five decades of constitutional wrangling, and has been called the most important conference since the Fathers of Confederation got together in Quebec City in 1864. Faced with the threat of Quebec independence, the ambitions of Western Canada, and the provinces’ demands for more power, Trudeau was embattled. But he was fiercely determined to make Canadians fully independent and to entrench a Charter of Rights and Freedoms. What happened that day still reverberates. It severed the last important link to Canada’s colonial past. It guaranteed individual liberty and minority rights in the future. It weakened the grip of the elites and gave ownership of the constitution to Canadians. But it came at a price. Quebec alone refused to sign the final deal. René Lévesque, its separatist premier, claimed he had been betrayed by his allies in the Gang of Eight. The legend of the "Night of the Long Knives" took hold, precipitating a series of events that came close to destroying the country. Thirty years later, author Ron Graham delivers a gripping account of the fractious debates and secret negotiations. He uses newly uncovered documents and the candid recollections of many of the key participants to create a vivid record of that momentous twenty-four hours. Authoritative and engaging, The Last Act is a remarkable combination of scholarly research and historical narrative.
Lions or Jellyfish
Author: Raymond B. BlakePublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442622660
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Asked in 2010 about his pugnacious approach to federal-provincial relations, Newfoundland premier Danny Williams declared “I would rather live one more day as a lion than ten years a jellyfish.” He was only the latest in a long line of Newfoundland premiers who have fought for that province’s interests on the national stage. From Joey Smallwood and the conflict over Term 29 of the Act of Union to Williams and his much-publicized clashes with Paul Martin and Stephen Harper, Newfoundland and Labrador’s politicians have often expressed a determination to move beyond a legacy of colonialism and assert greater control over the province’s own affairs. Lions or Jellyfish? examines the history of these federal-provincial clashes with both clarity and wit. Written by a noted expert on Newfoundland politics and intergovernmental affairs in Canada, this book studies a vital but frequently overlooked aspect of modern Canadian federalism.
Aboriginal Peoples and Electoral Reform in Canada
Author: Robert A. MilenPublisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 9781550021059
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
This collection of papers on elections, electoral law and electoral reform as they affect aboriginal peoples (Indian, Inuit, Metis) includes a comparison with New Zealand and the Maori situation, campaign coverage, considerations of 'nordicity' and native press and communications.
Ottawa Law Review
Author: Forming Economic Policy
Author: Fen Osler HampsonPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472514742
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
How do governments make key decisions on vital economic questions of national importance? Can they advance the national interest on issues that are highly politicized? How do they respond to competing pressures from the international and domestic environments? Forming Economic Policy explores these and other questions in Canada and Mexico, two very different countries which share a common vulnerability to the world economy. Using the case of energy, the book argues that policymakers will address the national interest, but only episodically with the onset of major national crises that invoke a higher and sustained sense of national priorities. These crises are frequently induced by the interaction of domestic and foreign political and economic forces. The conclusions are surprising. Despite profound political and economic differences between these two countries, policymakers have behaved in remarkably similar ways when arriving at key policy decisions. The explanation – which integrates two competing views of politics, the pluralist and the statist – has important implications with regard to the political processes in those states which, like Canada and Mexico, are exposed to the world economy and face problems of political legitimacy at home. Forming Economic Policy will appeal to students and teachers of political economy and comparative politics as well as to those interested in the politics of energy policy.
Forging Alberta's Constitutional Framework
Author: Richard ConnorsPublisher: University of Alberta
ISBN: 9780888644589
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
Forging Alberta’s Constitutional Framework analyzes the principal events and processes that precipitated the emergence and formation of the law and legal culture of Alberta from the foundation of the Hudson’s Bay in 1670 until the eve of the centenary of the Province in 2005. The formation of Alberta’s constitution and legal institutions was by no means a simple process by which English and Canadian law was imposed upon a receptive and passive population. Challenges to authority, latent lawlessness, interaction between indigenous and settler societies, periods (pre- and post-1905) of jurisdictional confusion, and demands for individual, group, and provincial rights and recognitions are as much part of Alberta’s legal history as the heroic and mythic images of an emergent and orderly Canadian west patrolled from the outset by red coated mounted police and peopled by peaceful and law-abiding subjects of the Crown. Papers focus on the development of criminal law in the Canadian west in the nineteenth century; the Natural Resources Transfer Agreement of 1930; the National Energy Program of the 1980s; Federal-Provincial relations; and the role and responsibilities of the offices of Justices of the Peace and of the Lieutenant-Governor; and the legacies of the Lougheed and Klein governments.