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The May 2011 federal election dramatically altered Canada’s political landscape, and Jack Layton’s death in August sent additional shock waves through the political system. In this issue, some of Canada’s most knowledgeable and astute political commentators reflect on what has changed in Canadian politics:
Placing the Liberal Party’s poor 2011 showing in historical
context, Reg Whitaker asks whether there is a way back for
the party, concluding that there is a centre-left majority
in Canada that requires cooperation between the Liberals and
the NDP for effective political expression;
Garth Stevenson argues that the current imperative of the
NDP is not to cooperate with the Liberals but to displace
them permanently as a viable alternative to the
Conservatives; New
Brunswick NDP Leader Dominic Cardy looks to the way Tony
Blair transformed the British Labour Party for a model of
how the NDP needs to change; Tom
Flanagan suggests that while the Conservatives are not about
to abandon Quebec now that they have built a majority
without it, Quebec will no longer drive the federal
political agenda;
Four members of the team at Vote Compass pinpoint which
issues mattered to voters and how those issues played out in
different regions of the country. Another major section looks at the problems and prospects of cities, focusing especially on two Canadian cities, Ottawa-Gatineau and Vancouver:
Gilles
Paquet and David Gordon put forward proposals for how
Ottawa-Gatineau could function more effectively as Canada’s
capital – Paquet from the point of view of governance, and
Gordon from the perspective of urban design;
Gordon Price looks at Vancouver in the context of the
phenomenon of car dependency that has prevailed in North
American cities since the 1920s – Vancouver has done better
than most in containing “Motordom,” but the struggle is far
from won;
Paul Delany, reviewing Edward Glaeser’s much-discussed book
The Triumph of the
City, expresses concern that the “Vancouverism” model
may rest on unsustainable foundations; Montreal
writer Paul Cliche and five public policy students at Simon
Fraser University in Vancouver examine cities’
underrepresentation in provincial legislatures; John
Richards looks at South Asia’s burgeoning megacities through
the lens of the superb contemporary novels in which these
cities are backdrops. Also in this issue:
Idrisa
Pandit and Gautam Navlakha explore the causes, consequences
and on-the-ground realities of one of the world’s longest
standing territorial disputes: Kashmir; John
Brewin and Arthur Milner call for a “temporary, strategic
coalition” between the Liberals and the NDP; Gary
Caldwell questions whether Quebec’s Quiet Revolution was as
much a success as Pierre Fortin maintained (in the last
issue), and Dominic Cardy fails to share Roberta Lexier’s
enthusiasm for the Ryan Meili and Naheed Nenshi campaigns as
harbingers of change in Canadian politics; Jared
Wesley looks at two books on declining youth political
participation, while David McGrane reviews Jared Wesley’s
book about political culture on the prairies.The Summer/Fall 2011 print issue of
Inroads contains brief excerpts from two lengthy
discussions on the Inroads listserv. One explored the
issues of privacy and freedom of information raised by the
leak of thousands of diplomatic cables to the WikiLeaks
website in December 2010, while the other consisted of a
running commentary on the federal election campaign in the
spring of 2011. The spring 2011 newsletter contains
extended versions of both these discussions.
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