Canadese: A Portrait of the Italian Canadians
The literature on Italian-Canadians — not unlike that on many other ethnocultural minorities — has undergone in recent decades an important transition. At its early stage it was dominated by the filiopietistic genre — a type of writing that celebrates the past…
Constitution-Building in Namibia: Could it Happen Here?
“In the process of negotiating, bargaining and hammering out this constitution, the Namibians developed a special Namibian way of resolving internal differences and contradictions. The method is:
Marler: Four Generations of a Quebec Family
Sir Herbert Marler is chiefly remembered in the foreign service community for certain foibles of personality and as the inspiration and financial backer of the remarkable property that still serves as the Canadian Embassy residence and chancery in Tokyo. Insights into both…
De Mackenzie King à Pierre Trudeau. Quarante ans de diplomatie canadienne
Professeur au département de science politique de l’Université Laval, Paul Painchaud est à la fois esprit friand de vastes synthèses et animateur tenace. En 1977, il a dirigé un collectif Le Canada et le Québec sur la scène internationale qui a rendu…
Collapse of Meech Lake Accord: A Rogue Foreign Policy Initiative?
Was the collapse of the Meech Lake Accord a rogue foreign policy initiative concocted by someone in the Department of External Affairs? “Tommy rot,” reply senior officials in External who are keeping mum on the subject in face of increasing evidence to…
La francophonie, le Québec et le Canada par les yeux de Monsieur Jean-Louis Roy
Monsieur Jean-Louis Roy est né le 1er février 1941 à Normandin (Québec). Licencié en philosophie et docteur en histoire, il dirigea le Centre d’études canadiennes-françaises de l’Université McGill de 1971 à 1980, avant de devenir directeur du quotidien montréalais Le Devoir de…
The Secret Kingdom: Interpretations of the Canadian Character
The Secret Kingdom is one of the finest books about Canadians I have ever read. Dominique Clift writes, after thirty years of political journalism, in both languages. In the preface, he says his book is derived in part from that experience. But…
Changing the Constitution
By the time this appears in print, the Meech Lake Accord will probably have become a body of actual amendments to the Constitution. These may make obsolete many statements that otherwise could have been made about the existing Constitution and about what…
René Lévesque Memoirs
It had been almost a year since I’d last seen him. René Lévesque had just returned from a promotional tour in the Canadian West. It wasn’t his first trip, but it was the first time he’d been struck by the beauty of…
Le gestionnaire et les défis internationaux
En présence du rôle croissant des phénomènes internationaux, les besoins de formation et de perfectionnement de gestionnaires et de spécialistes capables d’agir au plan international, deviennent de plus en plus évidents. Afin d’y répondre, T’Ecole nationale d’administration publique offre depuis quelques années…
