Interpreting Quebec's exile within the federation : : selected political essays / / Guy Laforest ; with the collaboration of Oscar Mejia Mesa.

• Superior document: Diversitas ; Volume 20
• VerfasserIn: Laforest, Guy, 1955-,
• TeilnehmendeR: Mesa, Oscar Mejia,
• Place / Publishing House: Brussels, [Belgium] : : P.I.E. Peter Lang,, 2014.; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2015; 2014
• Edition: Éditions scientifiques internationales.
• Language: English
• Series: Diversitas ; Volume 20.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (206 pages) :; digital file(s).

This book combines the approaches of political theory and of intellectual history to provide a lucid account of Québec's contemporary situation within the Canadian federation. Guy Laforest considers that the province of Québec, and its inhabitants, are exiled within Canada. They are not fully integrated, politically and constitutionally, nor are they leaving the federation, for now and for the foreseeable future. They are in between these two predicaments. Laforest provides insights into the current workings of the Canadian federation, and some of its key figures of the past fifty years, such

Table of Contents

Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 The Internal Exile of Quebecers in the Canada of the Charter -- I. Pierre Trudeau, the Exile of Quebecers, and the Charter -- II. To End the Exile -- Conclusion -- ch. 2 The Contemporary Meaning and Utility of Federalism -- I. The Meaning and Utility of Federalism -- II. Federalism's Challenges and Problems -- Conclusion -- ch. 3 Making Sense of Canada as a Federal System: The Relevance of Historical Legacies -- I. Historical Legacies: Their Nature, Role, Interrelations, and Contemporary Significance -- Conclusion -- ch. 4 The Historical and Legal Origins of Asymmetrical Federalism in Canada's Founding Debates: A Brief Interpretive Note -- Conclusion -- ch. 5 What Canadian Federalism Means in Quebec -- I. Interpretive Context -- II. Contemporary Trends and Scholarship: Critical Reflections -- Conclusion -- ch. 6 Lord Durham, French Canada, and Quebec: Remembering the Past, Debating the Future -- I. Coming to Terms with Lord Durham's Report in French Canada and Quebec -- II. Janet Ajzenstat's Introduction: Debating Lord Durham's Influence on Canada and Assessing Him as a Human Being and as a Thinker -- III. A Critical Hermeneutics for the Present and for the Future -- Conclusion -- ch. 7 Some Reflections on the Bouchard-Taylor Commission -- ch. 8 More Distress than Enchantment: The Constitutional Negotiations of November 1981 -- I. Causes -- II. Assessing the Behaviour of Participants -- III. Consequences -- Conclusion -- ch. 9 The Canadian State and the Political Freedom of Quebec: The Ideas of James Tully and Michel Seymour -- I. Canada's Political-Constitutional Identity and Quebec's Situation -- II. The Philosophical Approaches of James Tully and Michel Seymour -- III. From a Straightjacket to a Reworking of Democratic Constitutionalism with Universal Scope -- IV. Michel Seymour's Criticism -- V. Overall Consideration of the Theses in Light of Seymour's Objections -- Conclusion -- ch. 10 Trust and Mistrust between Harper and Quebec -- I. Some Reflections on Trust and its Derivatives -- II. Harper and Quebec -- Conclusion.