Top Posts & Pages
Tag Archives: Québec
Two Tribes, Part 2
Two Tribes, Part 2 By Mark Wegierski Many of Canada’s problems derive from the fact that the country consists of “two nations warring in the bosom of a single state”, to quote from Lord Durham’s famous Report of 1840. The … Continue reading
Posted in Current Affairs and Comment, QR Home
Tagged Brian Mulroney, Jean Chretien, Justin Trudeau, Lord Durham, Pierre Trudeau, Québec
1 Comment
Two Tribes
Two Tribes Mark Wegierski considers Canada’s future An essay in two parts Part one The results of the provincial election in Québec, on April 7, 2014, were unexpected. It was a huge win for the Liberals led by Philippe Couillard, … Continue reading
Regionalism and Nationalism in Canada
Regionalism and Nationalism in Canada The third of a series of articles by Mark Wegierski to mark the Sesquicentennial of Canadian Confederation The historical context The problem of centre-periphery relations in a society, and of how a geographically extensive country extending … Continue reading
Posted in Current Affairs and Comment, QR Home
Tagged Brian Mulroney, Nationalism, Ontario, Ottawa, Preston Manning, Québec, Regionalism, Rousseau, Stephen Harper, Toronto
Leave a comment
The Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement
The Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement by Mark Wegierski It seemed, in the summer of 1987, that Brian Mulroney’s Progressive Conservative federal government was headed for one of the worst defeats in Canadian political history. In many of the 1986 and … Continue reading →
Share this: