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Can Canada Survive?
Canada is facing a critical period in its history. The Royal Society of Canada believed it had the responsibility to instigate both deep reflection and debate within the vast and diverse intellectual network it represents throughout Canada. In November 1996, the Fellows of all three Academies of the Society gathered to discuss perspectives on Canada's future.
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Assisted dying: Quebec allows advance directives, defying federal ban
Quebec, Canada’s second most populous province, updated its law in June 2023 to permit such directives,1 and asked the federal government in Ottawa to amend federal law accordingly. Quebec’s justice minister Simon Jolin-Barrette told reporters at Quebec’s legislature (the National Assembly of Quebec) that he had instructed the director of criminal prosecutions that it would “not be in the public interest” to pursue medical staff implementing advance directives. When the federal government refused in February to amend the criminal law, a spokesperson for the federal justice ministry said that “individuals across the country must adhere to the same rules, regardless of location, leaving no room for evading consequences in different jurisdictions.
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Policy Forum: How Does Quebec Exercise Its Fiscal Autonomy?
In this article, the authors describe how the application of personal income tax differs in Quebec as compared with other Canadian provinces. The origins of this differentiation are discussed along with the details of Quebec tax particularities, including their effect on the determination of Quebecers' net income. Quebec's fiscal autonomy allows the provincial government to give expression to its public policy preferences and also offers options for protection of the tax base. However, the government's exercise of its autonomy is limited by practical constraints and adds to the province's administrative burden. The article concludes with the authors' thoughts on simplifying tax compliance for Quebec taxpayers.
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Getting it Wrong
This provocative book explains how divergent views of Canada?s past have sown dissension between Québécois and other Canadians, disclosing a lost middle ground between the Canadian nationalist and Québec nationalist visions of Canadian history.
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Federalism, Citizenship and Quebec
Federalism, Citizenship, and Quebecstands apart from other English-language studies on multinational democracy, citizenship, and federalism, and, most notably, multinational democracy in Canada.
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Federalism, Citizenship and Quebec
Canadians often imagine their country as a multicultural democracy, while a few go further to claim that the country's diversity can be characterized as multinational in its social and institutional make-up. In Federalism, Citizenship, and Quebec, Alain-G. Gagnon and Raffaele Iacovino reveal how this notion has been falsely presented to the populace. Through comprehensive historical, contemporary, and critical accounts, they argue that the country has been the object of an aggressive nationalizing project that contravenes the principles of a 'multinational federation.' Gagnon and Iacovino defend a conception of diverse citizenship for Canada that is truly suitable to a durable and just constitutional association and provide an alternative path for the country based on normative, socio-political, and practical considerations associated with multinational democracy.
Including a detailed account of the main challenges associated with Quebec's place in the federation, Federalism, Citizenship, and Quebec stands apart from other English-language studies on multinational democracy, citizenship, and federalism, and, most notably, multinational democracy in Canada. Gagnon and Iacovino ground their work in both history and theory, offering a truly interdisciplinary approach that will appeal to scholars from fields as diverse as Canadian and Quebec politics, comparative politics, and political and legal theory. The book will contribute to awareness of the need for appreciating diversity in contemporary societies while being a useful addition to English Canadian students in these fields, who often lack exposure to many of the rich debates proceeding in Quebec.
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Beyond multination federalism: Reflections on nations and nationalism in Canada
This article addresses the problem of managing nationalism in multination states by evaluating the influential multination federal model, as put forward by a group of Canadian scholars. Finding that it employs an overly primordial view of nations, the article argues that John Hutchinson's approach, which foregrounds the conflict of nationalisms that occurs within nations, offers a better lens from which to bring to light the sources of unity and disunity in multination states. To illustrate this, the article discusses the conflict of nationalisms in Canada, suggesting that a debate over the merits of pan-Canadian nationalism within English Canada and French Québec can be identified. In failing to account for this, the article argues that the multination federal model risks (1) marginalizing French-speaking Quebecers who support pan-Canadian nationalism and (2) encouraging English Canadian nationalism. To conclude, the article suggests that models seeking to mitigate the potential centrifugal effects of nationalism should avoid privileging one type of nationalism over another.
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Funding Matters
This paper examines the complex federal/provincial funding arrangements for settlement programs and services in four provinces (British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario and Quebec) and the impact that they appear to have on the provision of services for refugees. We draw on Leslie Seidle's four models of federal/provincial/territorial immigration funding arrangements (co-management, tri-level consultation/federal delivery, comprehensive control and devolved) that illustrate the different agreements that have been negotiated for each of the four provinces. We also conducted interviews with senior service providers of Resettlement Assistance Programs in each of the four provinces to get an understanding of the impact of the different funding arrangements on local programs. The analysis features the refugee services provision and looks at the issues of intergovernmental engagement, service impacts and program flexibility. The emerging role of municipalities in settlement service is also considered.
Le présent document examine les arrangements complexes de financement fédéraux / provinciaux des programmes d'établissement et des services dans quatre provinces (Colombie-Britannique, Alberta, Ontario et Québec) et l'impact qu'ils semblent avoir sur la prestation de services pour les réfugiés. Nous nous appuyons sur les quatre modèles d'ententes fédérales/provinciales/territoriales quant au financement de l'immigration de Leslie Seidle (la co-gestion, à trois niveaux de consultation / d'exécution fédéral, un contrôle complet et déconcentré) qui illustrent les différents accords qui ont été négocié pour chacune des quatre provinces. Nous avons également mené des entrevues avec les fournisseurs de services responsables des programmes d'aide au réétablissement de chacune des quatre provinces pour obtenir une compréhension de l'impact des modalités de financement différentes sur les programmes locaux. L'analyse comprend la prestation des services aux réfugiés et se penche sur les questions de l'engagement intergouvernemental, les impacts de service et la souplesse du programme. Le nouveau rôle des municipalités dans les services d'établissement est également considéré.
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