The Canadian Distinctiveness into the XXIst Century - La distinction canadienne au tournant du XXIe siecle

Table des matières; Préface; Preface; Remerciements; Acknowledgements; INTRODUCTION; Locus IN Quo; INDIVIDUALS, COLLECTIVITIES, AND THE STATE / INDIVIDUS, COLLECTIVITÉS ET ÉTAT; THE TEXTURE OF CANADIAN SOCIETY / LE CARACTÈRE DE LA SOCIÉTÉ CANADIENNE; CULTURE, IDENTITY, AND THE MARKET / CULTURE, IDENTITÉ ET MARCHÉ; THE PLACE OF CANADA IN THE WORLD OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY / LE RÔLE DU CANADA SUR LA SCÈNE INTERNATIONALE AU VINGT ET UNIÈME SIÈCLE; Collaborateurs; Contributors

In this collection of essays some of Canada's foremost writers and thinkers, including John Ralston Saul and Margaret Atwood, call for equilibrium among economics, culture, and technological change. While promoting the dynamism and change possible in Canadian society, they also call for a re-examination of Canada's past in order to chart its future