Canada Since 1945: Power, Politics, and ProvincialismFrom the preface: "A visitor seeing Canada for the first time since 1939 might well conclude that Canada, even more than nations devastated by war, has become another country. On the surface so much remains the same: the Liberals prevail in Ottawa; the provinces quarrel with Ottawa and among themselves; and we worry about Americans in our future. But most of the pieces have been rearranged, and the effect of the picture is quite different...This is a book about our own times, and as such it expresses definite views. No reader will agree with everything we say. We have not tried to end debate; we have tried to clarify and broaden. We trust that our readers will be encouraged to seek for themselves a better understanding of where Canadians have been and what they have become." |
Contents
Beginnings | 3 |
Growth and Change | 9 |
THE END OF MACKENZIE KING 19458 | 35 |
Canada Adrift | 37 |
The End of the War | 44 |
The Legacy of War | 52 |
A Strategy for Economic Survival | 61 |
Making a Better Country | 74 |
Budgets the Bank and the Diefenbuck | 198 |
DominionProvincial Perplexities | 220 |
The Changing Atmosphere of the Early Sixties | 238 |
THE PEARSON YEARS 19638 | 253 |
Coming Apart and Changing Together | 255 |
The Economy and the Flowering of the Social Service State | 287 |
Nationalism and Culture | 307 |
INTO THE SEVENTIES AND BEYOND | 313 |
Making a Better World | 85 |
Popular Culture | 92 |
Education | 105 |
THE ST LAURENT YEARS 194857 | 113 |
A New Cabinet and Its Foreign Policy | 115 |
Liberal Centralization | 132 |
Roads and Resources | 139 |
Building the Welfare State | 146 |
Stratford Elvis and the Happy Gang | 151 |
Crosscurrents in Economic Affairs and Policy | 163 |
The Twilight of the Grits | 177 |
THE DIEFENBAKER YEARS 195763 | 181 |
The Shape of Things | 183 |
Delusions Complete or Partial | 186 |
The Centennial and the Early Trudeau Governments | 315 |
Economic Developments 196879 | 338 |
Phase One | 359 |
The Canadian Constitutional Revolution | 388 |
Culture Education and Social Trends | 400 |
Canada and the World Beyond | 421 |
Politics in the 1980s | 429 |
Disenchantment Deregulation and Deficits | 445 |
CONCLUSION | 475 |
Conclusion | 477 |
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY | 481 |
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