Canada's Origins
by Ajzenstat, Janet; Smith, Peter J.Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1995-11-01
Publisher(s): Carleton Univ Pr
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Summary
Ajzenstat and Smith challenge the idea of Canada as a country whose liberal individualism, unlike that of the United States, is redeemed by a tradition of government intervention in economic and social life: the so-called "tory touch." This ground-breaking book begins with the now classic article in which the red tory view was formulated. It then presents a new and illuminating picture of Canadian political life, in which liberal individualism confronts not toryism but the participatory tradition of civic republicanism. In the final section the two editors, one a liberal, the other a civic republican, debate the crucial questions dominating Canadian politics today-including Quebec's search for recognition-from the perspective of their shared understanding of Canada's founding.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgements | |
| Canada's Origins in New Perspective | |
| Liberal-Republicanism: The Revisionist Picture of Canada's Founding | p. 1 |
| The Tory Paradigm | p. 19 |
| Conservatism, Liberalism, and Socialism in Canada: An Interpretation | p. 21 |
| Republican Influence | p. 45 |
| The Ideological Origins of Canadian Confederation | p. 47 |
| The First Distinct Society: French Canada, America, and the Constitution of 1791 | p. 79 |
| Civic Humanism Versus Liberalism: Fitting the Loyalists In | p. 109 |
| Liberal Roots | p. 137 |
| Durham and Robinson: Political Faction and Moderation | p. 139 |
| The Triumph of Liberalism in Canada: Laurier on Representation and Party Government | p. 159 |
| Egerton Ryerson's Canadian Liberalism | p. 181 |
| The Constitutionalism of Etienne Parent and Joseph Howe | p. 209 |
| The Provincial Rights Movement: Tensions Between Liberty and Community in Legal Liberalism | p. 233 |
| Looking Ahead | p. 263 |
| Canada's Political Culture Today: Liberal, Republican, or Third Wave? | p. 265 |
| Selected Bibliography | p. 283 |
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