03590nam 2200769 a 450 991082163910332120230912135128.01-282-86119-097866128611920-7735-7109-410.1515/9780773571099(CKB)1000000000245017(OCoLC)180773034(CaPaEBR)ebrary10119762(SSID)ssj0000284115(PQKBManifestationID)11215059(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000284115(PQKBWorkID)10250403(PQKB)10844586(CaPaEBR)400171(CaBNvSL)gtp00521450(Au-PeEL)EBL3330703(CaPaEBR)ebr10132886(CaONFJC)MIL286119(OCoLC)929120873(DE-B1597)656329(DE-B1597)9780773571099(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/jhzqgs(schport)gibson_crkn/2009-12-01/1/400171(MiAaPQ)EBC3330703(MiAaPQ)EBC3243423(EXLCZ)99100000000024501720040506d2003 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierShall we dance? a patriotic politics for Canada /Charles BlattbergMontréal McGill-Queen's University Pressc20031 online resource (208 pages)0-7735-2596-3 0-7735-2547-5 Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-187) and index.Front Matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: A Canadian Home? -- Responding to Conflict: Three Ways, Three Canadas -- Who We Were -- Who We Are -- Who We Could Be -- Conclusion: Divide and Listen -- Notes -- Bibliography -- IndexCharles Blattberg shows that while a just politics based on dialogue is at the core of Canadians' sense of ourselves as citizens, our current forms of dialogue are inadequate. To some, we should be pleading before authorities responsible for upholding a unified foundation for our politics. Pierre Trudeau and his followers, for example, advocate a Charter of Rights and Freedoms that trumps any values not contained within it. To others, we ought to be true to the longstanding Canadian political tradition of compromise and so negotiate our conflicts, a form of dialogue that strives for accommodation rather than trumping. Blattberg argues, however, that both of these approaches have largely failed us. To him, the preferred form of dialogue in Canadian politics today should be that of conversation. As he shows, only conversation aims for the genuine reconciliation of conflict; only it will help us realize the common good that is at the heart of a truly patriotic Canadian politics.Political participationCanadaPatriotismCanadaNational characteristics, CanadianCivil societyCanadaCommunication politiqueCanadaCanadaPolitics and governmentCanadaPolitique et gouvernementPolitical participationPatriotismNational characteristics, Canadian.Civil societyCommunication politique320.971Blattberg Charles906535MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910821639103321Shall we dance4079072UNINA