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Talking Past Each Other: Quebec and the Federal Dialogue in Canada, 1867-2017

Talking Past Each Other: Quebec and the Federal Dialogue in Canada, 1867-2017

Telford, Hamish

Hardcover

PhilosophyGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 1433150484
ISBN13: 9781433150487
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Published: Apr 10 2018
Pages: 310
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.80
Language: English

In Talking Past Each Other, Hamish Telford provides an engaging account of the long-running dialogue between the governments of Quebec and Canada on the meaning and purpose of federalism. He argues that the government of Canada has adopted a theory of federalism that enables it to address most issues of national importance to the federation irrespective of the formal division of powers in the constitution. The theory of majoritarian federalism, as he calls it, allows the government of Canada to promote national unity and the universality of citizenship. By contrast, Quebec's theory of federalism, which he calls difference federalism, stresses the importance of provincial autonomy, so as to allow each province, most especially Quebec, to preserve and promote its particularity. These definitions represent irreconcilable constitutional premises. The governments of Canada and Quebec have thus quite literally been talking past each other for the last 150 years.

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