Pierre Elliot Trudeau Research Papers (original) (raw)
A critique of Multiculturalism as it is practiced in Canada
Belfast-born Canadian novelist Brian Moore (1921-1999) wrote novels which include a complex portrait of the Québécois. His first Canadian novel, The Luck of Ginger Coffey (1960), presents Montreal government officials, many of them... more
Belfast-born Canadian novelist Brian Moore (1921-1999) wrote novels which include a complex portrait of the Québécois. His first Canadian novel, The Luck of Ginger Coffey (1960), presents Montreal government officials, many of them French-speaking, as less sympathetic to the Irish immigrant protagonist. In later Canadian novels, however, Moore develops greater sympathy for the French-speaking minority. As a former Catholic within Protestant-dominated Northern Ireland, Moore includes insightful history of French-Canadian missionary work with distinct political and cultural overtones in both Black Robe (1985) and No Other Life (1997). He explores the national division of Canada during the period of violent upheaval surrounding the “October Crisis” in his neglected work, The Revolution Script (1971). Significantly, Moore’s sympathy for the Front de Libération du Québec (or FLQ) kidnappers comes at the expense of Pierre Trudeau, depicted as an actor. This contribution traces the development of Moore’s fictional portrait of the Québécois, a perspective which may be unique given both his immigrant “outsider” status and his early experiences as a minority in Belfast.
Drawing on the fragmentary chain of letters between George Woodcock and Herbert Read, this article uses these materials as a point of departure to consider the development of Woodcock’s cultural politics. Focusing on the memories he... more
Drawing on the fragmentary chain of letters between George Woodcock and Herbert Read, this article uses these materials as a point of departure to consider the development of Woodcock’s cultural politics. Focusing on the memories he explored in his autobiographical writing, his histories of anarchism and Canada, and his project to live off the land, it examines the ways in which Woodcock looked to anarchism’s past to theorise afresh its future.
This article examines Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau's legacy in terms of fiscal federalism in Canada. Contrary to the conventional wisdom, Trudeau leaned in the direction of greater fiscal decentralization as demonstrated by his decisions... more
This article examines Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau's legacy in terms of fiscal federalism in Canada. Contrary to the conventional wisdom, Trudeau leaned in the direction of greater fiscal decentralization as demonstrated by his decisions on social (health and post-secondary education) transfers and equalization.
Sat down for an interview with Brendan McShane of Canada's History magazine, right before the 2020 Presidential election, to discuss the situation and provide some historical context to the relationship between Canadian and American... more
Sat down for an interview with Brendan McShane of Canada's History magazine, right before the 2020 Presidential election, to discuss the situation and provide some historical context to the relationship between Canadian and American leaders.
This article analyzes a largely unknown voyage undertaken by Capitan Dariusz Bogucki in the summer of 1975 through the Northwest Passage on-board a Polish yacht called Gedania. This expedition was one of the first attempts to navigate the... more
- by Marcin Gabryś
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- Sovereignty, Canada, Arctic, Sailing
La Revue Tocqueville, The Tocqueville Review, XIII (2), automne 1993
Unfortunately it was rejected rather early in the process.
O objetivo desta pesquisa, inscrita no aparato teórico-metodológicode Michel Pêcheux e Eni Orlandi, é analisar o funcionamento do discurso do multiculturalismo no Canadá, onde teria emergido nos anos1960. Inscrito no discurso sociológico,... more
O objetivo desta pesquisa, inscrita no aparato teórico-metodológicode Michel Pêcheux e Eni Orlandi, é analisar o funcionamento do discurso do multiculturalismo no Canadá, onde teria emergido nos anos1960. Inscrito no discurso sociológico, o discurso do multiculturalismo emerge, assim, na ilusão de que existem fronteiras entre culturas e como se a diferença não fosse constitutiva do processo de identificação dos sujeitos. Investiga-se também, o contexto de surgimento do significante multiculturalismo e os deslocamentos e silenciamentos de sentido produzidos em relação às diferenças na tensão entre francos e anglofalantes e mostra-se que para o discurso do multiculturalismo se tornar hegemônico foi preciso produzir deslocamentos no discurso de fundação do Canadá para a construção do mito de uma terra hospitaleira para imigrantes do mundo todo.