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POLI 2212

POLI 2212 WAO Canadian Government

Historical course

Winter 2017

Topics

  • —Values and Norms in Canadian Politics
  • Brooks & Menard
  • —The Historical Roots of Canada’s Constitutional Sovereignty
  • Walter Bagehot, The English Constitution, (“The Monarchy”)
  • Suggested Watching
  • The Madness of King George
  • —Colonial Foundations of Canadian Government
  • Patrick Monahan, Constitutional Law, (Canada’s Constitutional Development Before 1867), course
  • reserves
  • —Responsible Government: A Detailed Study
  • Leuprecht & Russell, Part I, Part V
  • —Canadian Constitutionalism
  • Leuprect & Russell, Part 1
  • —Canadian Constitutionalism cont
  • —Parliament’s Place in the Canadian Constitution
  • Patrick Monahan, Constitutional Law, Section E (“Legislative Power”)
  • Leuprecht & Russell, Part 1
  • The Great Palace: The Story of Parliament (BBC) (available at youtube)
  • —The Mechanics of Canadian Government
  • Suggested Watching (available at www.nfb.ca)
  • The Secret World of Whitehall parts 1, 2, 3 (available at youtube)
  • Paperland (available at www.nfb.ca)
  • —The Prime Minister in Canada
  • Monahan, Constitutional Law, Section D (Executive Power)

Readings

  • Required: S. Brooks, M. Menard, Canadian Democracy: A Concise Introduction, Oxford University Press, 2013
  • Required: C. Leuprecht, P. Russell, Essential Readings in Canadian Constitutional Politics, University of Toronto Press, 2011
  • Suggested: Leuprecht & Russell, Part 1, ch. 5
  • Suggested: Feb. 6—The Mechanics of Canadian Government Brooks & Menard, ch.8
  • Suggested: Feb. 8—The Prime Minister in Canada
  • Suggested: Monahan, Constitutional Law, Ch. 3, Section D (Executive Power) Leuprecht & Russell, Part 5, ch. 25
  • Suggested: Feb 13—Canadian Confederation and its Federal System Leuprecht & Russell, Part 2 chs. 8, 9, 10
  • Suggested: Brooks & Menard, ch. 4
  • Suggested: Feb 15—Canadian Confederation and its Federal System cont. Brooks & Menard, ch. 7
  • Suggested: Feb 20—No Class
  • Suggested: Feb 23—No Class
  • Suggested: Feb 27—Canadian Confederation and its Federal System cont. Leuprecht & Menard, Part 2, ch. 11, Part 3, chs. 13, 14, 15
  • Suggested: March 1—Canadian Confederation and its Federal System cont. P. Monahan, Ch. 4, Sec. C (Federal Distribution of Legislative Powers)
  • Suggested: March 6—Canadian Government and the Language Question Brooks & Menard ch. 12 Leuprecht & Russell, Part V, ch. 24, ch. 25
  • Suggested: March 8—Canadian Government and the Language Question cont. Leuprecht & Russell, Part V, chs. 26, 27,28
  • Suggested: March 13---The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms Brooks & Menard ch. 6 Leuprecht & Russell, part 6 ch. 30
  • Suggested: March 15—The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms cont. Leuprecht & Russell, Part 6 chs., 31, 32, 41
  • Suggested: March 20—The Canadian Charter and its Discontents Leuprecht & Russell , Part 7, chs. 34, 36, 33
  • Suggested: Marc 22—The Charter and Canadian Society Brooks & Menard, ch. 13
  • Suggested: March 27—Aboriginal People and the Canadian Government Brooks & Menard, ch. 14
  • Suggested: March 29—Aboriginal People and the Canadian Constitution (Pre-Charter) P. Monahan, ch. 14, Section A and B
  • Suggested: April 3—Aboriginal People and the Canadian Constitution (Post-Charter) P. Monahan, ch. 14, Section C Leuprecht & Russell, Part 7 chs. 39, 40
  • Suggested: April 5—Canadian Government and the Media Brooks and Menard, ch. 11
Fall 2016 · POLI 2212 FA Canadian Government

Topics

  • Democracy and Government
  • No readings assigned
  • Canada’s Politics: Introduction
  • Canada in Historical Context
  • Canada’s Politics: “The Context of Canadian Politics”
  • Daiva Stasiulis and Radha Jhappan, “The Fractious Politics of a Settler Society: Canada”, in Nira
  • Yuval-Davis and Daiva Stasiulis, (eds.), Unsettling Settler Societies: Articulations of Gender, Race
  • Ethnicity and Class, (London: Sage, 1995)
  • Indigenous Peoples and Canada
  • Canada’s Politics: “Aboriginal Rights and Government”
  • John Burrows, “Questioning Canada’s Title to Land: The Rule of Law, Aboriginal Peoples
  • Toronto Press, 2002)
  • Video: Trick or Treaty
  • Economics and the Challenge of Inequality
  • Canada’s Politics: “The Canadian Economy and the Challenges of Inequality”
  • Democratic Imagination: “Democracy as an Open Ended Question”
  • Political Culture
  • Democratic Imagination: “Political, Social and Economic Democracy”
  • Canada’s Politics: “Political Culture”
  • Eva Mackey, The House of Difference

Readings

  • Required: Eric Mintz, Livianna Tossutti, Christopher Dunn, Canada’s Politics: Democracy, Diversity, and Good Government, 3rd Edition (Toronto: Pearson Press, 2017)
  • Required: James Cairns, Alan Sears, The Democratic Imagination: Envisioning Popular Power in the Twenty- First Century (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012)
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