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This volume covers the Free Trade Agreement with the United States and Mexico; Canada's policy towards South Africa; growing peacekeeping efforts around the world; and common international problems such as immigration, drug trafficking, and the impact of trade, aid and human rights on foreign policy. Speeches are by political personalities such as Pierre Trudeau, Joe Clark, Barbara McDougall, MacDonald and Brian Mulroney.
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First published in 1986, Tug of War offers an analytical look at power struggles between provincial and federal governments during the 1980s. With one provincial government urging secession, another attacking Ottawa's energy policies by deliberately limiting the flow of oil to the rest of the country, and the national government intent on ratifying a new Constitution with or without provincial assent, Canadian governments faced the 1980s in fighting form. A witty, relentless but fair-minded analyst, Milne strips away partisan rhetoric, and offers a close examination of the ebb and flow of Canadian politics in the first half of the 1980s.
An dieser Stelle räumte mir der Verlag freundlicherweise Raum für ein Vorwort ein. Nun, ich habe mich entschlossen, dieses Angebot anzunehmen - im wesentlichen deshalb, da ich einigen Menschen meinen Dank ausspre chen möchte. Doch zuvor ein kurzes Wort zur Entstehung dieses Buches. Es ist das Ergebnis eines Forschungsaufenthaltes in Kanada vom Winter 1992 bis zum Sommer 1993 an der 'University of British Columbia' in Vancouver. Zurück in Hamburg habe ich die Ergebnisse im Januar 1994 an der Universität Hamburg zur Promotion eingereicht, die im November desselben Jahres ab geschlossen wurde. Mittlerweile hat sich das 'Free Trade Agreement' zwi schen Kanada und den USA zu einer Freihandel...
Also published in French under title: L'union sociale canadienne sans le Quebec.
An examination of the role that British Columbia has played in the evolving Canadian unity debate. Philip Resnick explores what makes British Columbia stand apart as a region of Canada and looks at the views of politicians, opinion-makers and ordinary citizens on various issues.
Cumulates monthly issues and includes additional material.