Cultural Visions and Constitutional Reforms in Canada in the 1980s and 90s

dc.creatorT. Espák, Gabriella
dc.date2021-02-01
dc.descriptionOn the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the Canadian Confederation, this essay surveys the various visions of society Canada has lived through until recently. Monocultural, bicultural and multicultural models of political identity alternated to clash over the constitution, thereby making it impossible for Aboriginal peoples and the Québécois to deliver nationalist arguments through the wall of liberal egalitarianism. The failure of the Meech Lake Accord (1987) pushed the country towards a federal and identity crisis inasmuch as it failed to reconcile the interests of national minorities with the interest of the nation as a whole within one legal framework. Continuing clashes over the constitution, especially in the Charlottetown Accord (1992), show that inherent cleavages in the body politic have survived, so multiculturalism has only been a partial solution to a population management problem. (GTE)
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dc.identifierhttps://ojs.lib.unideb.hu/hjeas/article/view/7286
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherDebreceni Egyetemi Kiadó
dc.relationhttps://ojs.lib.unideb.hu/hjeas/article/view/7286/6698
dc.rightsCopyright (c) 2018 Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies
dc.rightshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
dc.sourceHungarian Journal of English and American Studies; Vol. 24 No. 1 (2018)
dc.source2732-0421
dc.source1218-7364
dc.subjectCanadian studies
dc.titleCultural Visions and Constitutional Reforms in Canada in the 1980s and 90s
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article
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dc.typePeer-reviewed Article
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