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The end of privacy : how total surveillance is becoming a reality
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ISBN: 1565843789 1565845692 9781565845695 9781565843783 Year: 1999 Publisher: New York, NY : New Press,

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The Government Party : organizing and financing the Liberal Party of Canada 1930-58.
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ISBN: 0802054013 9780802054012 Year: 1977 Publisher: Toronto University of Toronto

The government party : organizing and financing the Liberal Party of Canada, 1930-58
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ISBN: 0802063209 Year: 1977 Volume: 20 Publisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press,

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Federalism and democratic theory
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Year: 1983 Publisher: Kingston: Queen's University,

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Drugs and the law : the Canadian scene
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ISBN: 0458903205 Year: 1969 Publisher: Toronto : Methuen,

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The Government Party : Organizing and Financing the Liberal Party of Canada 1930-58
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ISBN: 1487574436 Year: 2019 Publisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press,

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The Liberal party has dominated Canadian politics for most of this century. From the 1930s to the late 1950s, under the leadership of Mackenzie King and Louis St Laurent, the Liberals were almost unchallenged in their hold on national office, and in their influence on the Canadian state and Canadian public life. The Government Party traces the evolution of the party structure with special emphasis on organization both during and between elections, the relationship of the party organization to the parliamentary leadership, and the connections between the party and corporate capitalism through the mechanisms of party finance. Particular emphasis is placed on the role of political patronage and the linkages between government contracts and financial support for the party. The emergence of advertising agencies as publicity instruments of the party is examined in detail. The second part of the study deals with federal-provincial relations within the Liberal party, especially the relationship between the national party and its provincial counterparts in Quebec and Ontario. Some implications of federal-provincial intraparty conflict for the role of the national party are considered in detail. As a result of its long domination of politics, the Liberal party virtually fused with the state in the war and postwar period - with consequent bureaucratization of politics, a blurring of lines between party, state, and the corporate sector, and serious implications for Canadian liberal democracy. The Liberal party became less and less a 'Liberal' party and more and more simply the party of government. This is the first account of the operations of one of Canada's major political institutions. Professor Whitaker has unearthed a remarkable quantity of new material, mainly from primary sources, and woven it into a brilliant analysis - of the Liberal party in particular and, more generally, of the process of national government within the Canadian federal system.

A sovereign idea : essays on Canada as a democratic community
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ISBN: 1282855611 9786612855610 077356294X 9780773562943 0773508414 9780773508415 0773508783 9780773508781 Year: 1992 Publisher: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press,

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In these essays, written during the last fifteen years, Whitaker analyses the paradoxes of federalism and democracy in a society which is deeply divided by region, language, and class. He examines the thought and action of such diverse figures as Mackenzie King, Harold Innis, William Irvine, and Pierre Trudeau and evaluates their impact on Canadian society both then and now. With an astute critical eye he surveys constitutional reform and the question of Quebec sovereignty as it has developed from 1981 through Meech Lake and beyond, and explores federalism, democratic theory, and the practice of politics in the real world. In the final essay, "Quebec and the Canadian Question," written especially for this volume, he evaluates the major changes which have occurred in Canadian politics during the last fifteen years and assesses their resounding impact on the future possibilities for Canadian democracy. The dominant political discourse, Whitaker argues, is increasingly based on human rights. This, in combination with the ascendance of free-market conservatism, the turn to continentalism under free trade, and the resurgence, since the failure of Meech Lake, of serious tensions between Quebec and the rest of Canada, has led to a compounded crisis that requires an examination not only of what Quebec wants, with or without Canada, but what Canada wants -- with or without Quebec. The Canadian idea of democracy is still evolving. Together in one volume for the first time, Whitaker's essays describe the process of that evolution and show what lies beneath the constitutional debate on the future of Canada.


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Drugs & the law : the Canadian scene
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Year: 1969 Publisher: Toronto-London-Sydney Methuen

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The Government Party
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ISBN: 9781487574437 Year: 1977 Publisher: Toronto

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Cold War Canada : The Making of a National Insecurity State, 1945-1957
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ISBN: 1281997609 9786611997601 1442673044 9781442673045 080205935X 9780802059352 0802079504 9780802079503 Year: 2019 Publisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press,

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Based on these examples Whitaker and Marcuse outline the creation of Canada's Cold War policy, the emergence of the new security state, and the alignment of Canada with the United States in the global Cold War. They demonstrate that Canada did take a different approach towards the threat of communism, but argue that the secret repression and silent purges used to stifle dissent and debate about Canada's own role in the Cold War had a chilling effect on the practice of liberal democracy and undermined Canadian political and economic sovereignty. Cold War Canada digs past the official moderation and uncovers a systematic state-sponsored repression of communists and the Left, directed at civil servants, scientists, trade unionists, and political activists. Unlike the United States, Canada's purges were shrouded in secrecy imposed by the government and avidly supported by the RCMP security service. Whitaker and Marcuse manage to reconstruct several of the significant anti-communist campaigns. Using declassified documents, interviews, and extensive archival sources, the authors reconstruct the Gouzenko spy scandal, trace the growth of security screening of civil servants, and re-examine purges in the National Film Board and the trade unions, attacks on peace activist James G. Endicott, and the trials of Canadian diplomat Herbert Norman. Canadians might expect that a history of Canada's participation in the Cold War would be a self-congratulatory exercise in documenting the liberality and moderation of Canada set against the rapacious purges of the McCarthy era in the United States. Though Reg Whitaker and Gary Marcuse agree that there is some evidence for Canadian moderation, they argue that the smug Canadian self-image is exaggerated.

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