Chapter 2 A Very Canadian Revolution: The Transformation of Backroom Power in Canada’s 1968

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Abstract v
3. Résumé vii
4. Table of Contents ix
5. List of Figures and Tables xi
6. Acknowledgements xiii
7. Foreword xv
8. Introduction 1
9. Chapter 1 Bobby and Pierre 9
10. Chapter 2 A Very Canadian Revolution: The Transformation of Backroom Power in Canada’s 1968 33
11. Chapitre 3 1968, vue du Québec 51
12. Chapter 4 The Nationalists of 1968 and the Search for Canadian Independence 71
13. Chapter 5 Equality, Equity, and the Royal Commission on the Status of Women 95
14. Chapter 6 The 1968 Thinkers’ Conference and the Birth of Canadian Multiculturalism 117
15. Chapter 7 Defending Indigenous Rights against the Just Society 147
16. Chapter 8 Between Canadians and Culture: The First Year of the CRTC 175
17. Chapter 9 Portrait of a Publisher: Jack McClelland and McClelland & Stewart in 1968 195
18. Chapter 10 Immigration and “Medical Manpower”: 1968 and the Awkward Introduction of Medicare in Canada 215
19. Chapter 11 1968: A Turning Point for Language in Canada and Quebec 233
20. Chapter 12 Standing on Guard for Our Waters: Ottawa’s Response to the Transit of Alaskan Oil 253
21. Chapitre 13 L’Union nationale à la croisée des chemins 279
22. Chapter 14 Canada and the Czechoslovak Crisis of 19681 305
23. Chapter 15 The Libreville Conference and Federalism in Canadian Foreign Relations 325
24. Chapter 16 “Flowers have been getting a lot of publicity this year”: 1968 and David Helwig’s “Something for Olivia’s Scrapbook I Guess” 343
25. Contributors 359
26. Index in English 363
27. Index en français 377