Preparing for the Millennium

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents viii
3. Acknowledgements/Remerciements xiii
4. Preface/Préface xv
5. Foreword/Avant-propos xix
6. Keynote Addresses/Discours principaux
7. Canada on the Threshold of the 21st Century 3
8. European Reflections upon the Future of Canada 11
9. The Future of Canadian-European Relations seen from a European Community Perspective 19
10. Demographic Challenges to the Canadian Society/Les défis démographiques de la société canadienne
11. Demographic Challenges 29
12. Demographic Challenges to the Canadian Society 39
13. Looking to the Year 2000 47
14. The Changing Canadian Labour Force 55
15. Health and Demography 65
16. Changing Ethnic Patterns in the Canadian Population 1970–2000 73
17. The Economic Consequences of Demographic Change 79
18. Environmental Challenges to the Canadian Society/les défis environnementaux de la société canadienne
19. Introduction 87
20. Environmental Challenges to the Canadian Society 89
21. Will the Forestry Sector in Canada be able to pass the Threshold of the 21st Century? 95
22. Le droit des déchets dangereux au Canada et en Europe 103
23. Transforming Canada’s Economy: Challenges and Opportunities / Les transformations de l’économie canadienne: défis et occasions
24. Introduction 119
25. Canada in the World Economy 121
26. The Canada/U.S. Free Trade Agreement 129
27. Canada’s Forest Products Industries 137
28. An Overview of a Natural Resources-Based Economy 147
29. Evolving Systems of Human Settlement in Canada/Evolution des systèmes de peuplement au Canada
30. Introduction 171
31. Les établissements humains au Canada à l’aube du 21ème siècle 173
32. Urbanization in Canada 189
33. Urban Policy 201
34. Canada and the Regional City 205
35. Urban Change in Ontario 219
36. Vers une nouvelle urbanisation du Québec? 231
37. Identity in the Making: Emerging Canadian Culture and Images of Canadianness/ Une identité à définir: emergence d’une culture canadienne
38. Introduction 243
39. Myths, Power, Language, and the Stratification of Identities. Canadian Cultures in Community 245
40. Competing Visions and Language Policies for Canada 253
41. Canadian Identity and the Challenge of Multiculturalism 265
42. Le pluri-ethnisme canadien 275
43. Bilingualism, Multiculturalism, and the Franco-phone Community 285
44. Un avenir multiculturel pour la littérature québécoise? 293
45. Quebec Cinema as a Mirror of Identity 301
46. The Invention of the Past 309
47. No Transcendental Image 317
48. Canadian Woman’s ‘Ultimate Frontier’ in Aritha van Herk’s Fictional World 325
49. Anti-survivalism in Prairie Fiction 333
50. Canadianness in English Canadian Literature 339
51. Canada’s Changing Political Power Structure/Transformations politiques et pouvoir
52. Introduction 345
53. Canada’s Changing Political Power Structure 349
54. Models of Federalism and Canada’s Political Crisis 359
55. From Trudeau to Mulroney 371
56. L’échec de l’Accord du Lac Meech et l’avenir constitutionnel du Canada 383
57. The Meech Lake Accord and the Process of Political Realignment in Canada, 1979–1990 399
58. La dynamique de la crise politique canadienne Le nouveau visage du Canada vis-à-vis de l’Europe 419
59. Aboriginal Issues/Thèmes aborigènes
60. Introduction 429
61. An Indian Policy for Canada in the Twenty First Century 431
62. Canadian Native People and Environmentalists 447
63. Comment on the Theme Aboriginal Issues 455
64. Between the Superpowers: Challenges and Opportunities for Canadian-European Co-operation/Le Canada entre les superpuissances: défis et occasions de coopération Canado-Européenne
65. Introduction 463
66. Canada Europe and the United States on the Threshold of a New Era 467
67. The Political and Economic Dimensions of Canada’s External Relations 473
68. Preparing for the Millennium 487
69. Canadian Defence Policy 503
70. Canadian-European Defence Relations to the Year 2000 511
71. Canada and Europe’s Security 517
72. Canada, Europe and the Economic Summits 521
73. Canada, Europe and the Third World 529
74. Canadian and European Agricultural Policy 535
75. Canada and Northern Europe 543
76. Canada Facing a Market from the Atlantic to the Urals 551
77. The authors/Les auteurs 561