Canada's Origins: Liberal, Tory, or Republican? (Carleton Library Series) (Volume 184) - Softcover

Ajzenstat, Janet; Smith

9780886292744: Canada's Origins: Liberal, Tory, or Republican? (Carleton Library Series) (Volume 184)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0886292743 ISBN 13: 9780886292744

Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1995

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.

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