(2021). Celebrating Fifty Years of ARCS. American Review of Canadian Studies: Vol. 51, No. 1, pp. 1-2.

ABSTRACT Canadian immigration politics and policymaking are striking. Canadian admission targets have steadily increased since the global economic crisis of 2008-2009, regardless of the party in power and despite the COVID-19 pandemic. In contrast to the less welcoming attitudes of publics in other industrialized democracies, Canadians have enthusiastically supported expansive immigration policies

ABSTRACT Why has the Conservative Party of Canada largely supported high immigration rates and multiculturalism, and put considerable effort into recruiting New Canadians into its electoral coalition? More generally, why is Canada perhaps the only Western democracy without a major, consistently anti-immigrant or nativist party? I argue that none of Canada’s major national parties have adopted an anti-immigration

ABSTRACT For many scholars who worry about the future of liberal democracy, a central challenge has been to conceive civic and national identities that are robust enough to sustain collective action without defining the criteria of shared membership in ways that are too narrow, exclusive, or inaccessible. This essay addresses the familiar questions that lie at the heart of this challenge – who belongs

ABSTRACT Based on interviews with bureaucrats involved in policy work at the Canadian immigration department, this article describes how their work may have influenced the content of policies between 2006 and 2015. In dialogue with historical accounts of bureaucratic immigration policy making in Canada and with concepts from the study of policy work, the findings highlight the importance of maintenance

ABSTRACT During the global attempt to respond to the exodus of Syrians into neighboring countries and beyond, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) praised Canada for its intention to resettle 25,000 refugees. Even as many Canadians—and their government—were feeling proud of themselves, others responded with discomfort at the accolades being heaped upon Canada, worrying that they

ABSTRACT This paper focuses on the irregular migration flow from the United States to Canada from 2017 to 2020. This irregular migration, defined as unauthorized border crossings, challenges a central tenet of the perceived exceptionalism of Canadian immigration policy by illustrating that while legal migration remains publicly popular and receives political support, the public rejects unwanted, irregular

ABSTRACT Compared to other Western democracies, there has been relatively stable support for multiculturalism in Canada since its adoption in 1971, both amongst the general public and amongst the three main political parties. Conservative opposition to multiculturalism has, therefore, typically taken the form of “stealth” reforms to undercut its progressive potential, not direct frontal attacks. During

ABSTRACT Canadians hold favorable views about immigration, at least compared to many countries. Was it always so? Two survey series, using Environics and Gallup/Canadian Election Studies (CES) data, respectively, show that opinion on immigration was historically rather negative, became more positive from 1995 to 2005, and then stabilized. Native-born Canadians are now almost as positive toward immigration

ABSTRACT In this article, I argue that satisfaction with multiculturalism and support for discrimination in the immigration system are conceptually linked but distinct in the Canadian public’s mind. Following a large literature, I make the case that despite a normative assumption of nondiscrimination in the intellectual framework and policy rhetoric of multiculturalism, the public can support discrimination

(2021). Books Received (Spring 2021) American Review of Canadian Studies: Vol. 51, No. 1, pp. 189-190.

ABSTRACT Both The Massey Murder, by Charlotte Gray, and Alias Grace, by Margaret Atwood, enact a metaphorical examination of how murder reveals both the social attitudes and moral prurience exhibited toward servant women who kill their employers. This essay addresses two real, historical crimes in Toronto, their depiction in a novel and a work of nonfiction, and discusses ideology, class, gender, spectacle

ABSTRACT Alberta is the only Canadian province without a provincial sales tax (PST). Despite repeated calls from prominent economists and other policy experts, Alberta politicians have long rejected the idea of creating a PST in the province. This is not only the case of previous Progressive Conservative governments but also of the New Democratic (NDP) government of Rachel Notley. Partisanship alone

ABSTRACT This analysis examines the actions taken by the government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper between 2006 and 2015 in drawing attention to Canada’s Arctic territory through the lens of securitization theory. This analysis focuses not only on the rhetorical attention that the Harper government paid to Arctic security, but also the difficulties encountered in translating a discursive securitization

ABSTRACT It is important to consider Leonard Cohen by looking back though his posthumous collection, The Flame Poems and Selections from Notebooks. From 1967 onward, Cohen came to be known increasingly as a songwriter and singer. In Montreal, and in Canada generally, Cohen was acknowledged as a literary figure, singer, and songwriter. Internationally, particularly in the United States, about the time

ABSTRACT This article proposes that the understanding of Canada as a non-colonial power articulated by federal leaders representing Canada to the world is based on a myth. Foundational to contemporary understandings of the state, this myth is founded on a reproduction of a specific form of historical amnesia. When taken at face value, this myth-making both enables and promotes a false image of Canada

ABSTRACT We investigate whether a framework drawn from the field of organizational management can be used by citizens of two countries with different political history and culture to assess character. Drawing on a survey administered two weeks before the 2016 US presidential election, we report that Canadians and Americans are the same in how they evaluate eleven dimensions of character: both considered

(2020). Gaëtan Brulotte: nouvelliste, romancier, dramaturge, critique littéraire et universitaire. American Review of Canadian Studies: Vol. 50, No. 4, pp. 522-524.

ABSTRACT This article focuses on the latest collection of short stories by Gaëtan Brulotte entitled La contagion du réel (2014) and seeks to highlight the specificity of Brulotte’s realistic aesthetic as well as his contribution to the continuing renewal of this literary genre. The originality of Brulotte’s works resides in his “vision de biais” or his slanted, oblique, and parabolic vision, founded

ABSTRACT This article examines the importance that bodily materialism occupies in three representative short stories taken from La contagion du réel while highlighting the implicit and explicit criticism of religious dogma that can be found within them and the collection as a whole. The three stories examined here, situated at the beginning, in the middle, and at the end of the collection, correspond

Résumé Gaëtan Brulotte est plus connu pour ses nouvelles et son œuvre critique que pour son théâtre. Et, pourtant, Margareta Gyurcsik avance dans son ouvrage récent, Gaëtan Brulotte ou la lucidité en partage (2018) une « lecture pirandellienne » de plusieurs de ses œuvres. En partant d’une analyse dramaturgique de sa pièce Le client, il s’agit, dans cet article, d’explorer comment la fiction sape les

Abstract This article is a personal account of Gaëtan Brulotte’s conception of literary creation as a Canadian francophone writer. Using his latest collection of short stories as his starting point, Brulotte takes the reader behind the scenes of the writing of La contagion du réel (2014), which received the Grand Prix de littérature Gérald-Godin in 2015. This account most notably reveals the sources

(2020). The Greater Gulf: Essays on the Environmental History of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. American Review of Canadian Studies: Vol. 50, No. 4, pp. 582-583.

(2020). Freeing Trade in North America. American Review of Canadian Studies: Vol. 50, No. 4, pp. 583-586.

(2020). Home Feelings: Liberal Citizenship and the Canadian Reading Camp Movement. American Review of Canadian Studies: Vol. 50, No. 4, pp. 586-588.

(2020). Brewed in the North: A History of Labatt’s. American Review of Canadian Studies: Vol. 50, No. 4, pp. 588-591.

(2020). Unbecoming Nationalism: From Commemoration to Redress in Canada. American Review of Canadian Studies: Vol. 50, No. 4, pp. 591-593.

(2020). Might Nature be Canadian?: Essays on Mutual Accommodation. American Review of Canadian Studies: Vol. 50, No. 4, pp. 593-595.

(2020). Nested Federalism and Inuit Governance in the Canadian Arctic. American Review of Canadian Studies: Vol. 50, No. 4, pp. 595-596.

(2020). Masters and Servants: The Hudson’s Bay Company and its North American Workforce, 1668-1786. American Review of Canadian Studies: Vol. 50, No. 4, pp. 597-598.

(2020). 50.4 Books Received (Winter 2020) American Review of Canadian Studies: Vol. 50, No. 4, pp. 599-600.

(2020). Quebec Society: Current State and Future Prospects. American Review of Canadian Studies: Vol. 50, Quebec Society: Current State and Future Prospects, pp. 267-269.

(2020). 50.3 Books Received (Fall 2020) American Review of Canadian Studies: Vol. 50, Quebec Society: Current State and Future Prospects, pp. 400-401.

ABSTRACT Racial profiling is an increasingly well-studied problem in Quebec. Efforts to combat this problem, in contrast, are virtually non-existent. Seeking to address this gap, this article examines the long struggle to combat racial profiling in Montreal. This struggle began in earnest in 1979. It saw its most significant achievements between 1984 and 1991 and it saw most of these achievements watered

ABSTRACT The Quebec provincial election of October 2018 marked the end of an era. It saw the Quebec Liberal Party (QLP) suffer the worst defeat of its history and the election of agovernment, the first in a half century, not headed by either the Liberals or the Parti Québécois. The election of the Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) suggests a political realignment. Yet, whether or not the 2018 vote also

ABSTRACT This article first reviews key developments in the Quebec natural gas fracking timeline from initial exploratory well fracking in 2007 to the 2011 moratorium and the 2018 fracking prohibition. Next, the article estimates potential jobs and wealth losses from the prohibition in Quebec via a comparison between intensive fracking in northeastern Pennsylvania (which is similar in size to Quebec’s

ABSTRACT In 2017, the government of Quebec revisited the seemingly dormant question of Quebec’s place in Canada by releasing a Policy on Quebec Affirmation and Canadian Relations. While the policy statement checks off most of the boxes associated with Quebec’s traditional positions on federalism, I contend that it fails to diagnose the crux of the obstacles confronting Quebec and therefore it is likely

ABSTRACT In Quebec, as in most western countries, the past few decades have witnessed multiple and profound transformations in the public sector. In the current context of massive retirements and increasing mental health problems at work, public administrations face many challenges in terms of performance as well as attraction, retention, and mobilization of its human capital. To meet these challenges

ABSTRACT The future of the province of Quebec as always been linked with its demographic evolution. Today, 18% of Quebec society is more than 65 years old (Institut de la statistique du Québec 2017) and is third after Japan and South Korea (Azeredo et Payeur 2015) in terms of aging. Furthermore, peripheral regions tend to show this phenomenon even more. The highest rate can be observed in the administrative

ABSTRACT Successive governments of the Liberal and CAQ parties have worked on Quebec’s cannabis regulation. Although “progressiveness” is a key part of its political identity, and despite its population being the largest user of cannabis since it was legalized, Quebec adopted the most repressive legislation among Canadian provinces. The process of framing the issue was nevertheless heavily influenced

ABSTRACT In science fiction from Quebec (SFQ), several stories tackle the issue of destroying the environment by overconsuming its resources, while people keep doing their daily tasks without worrying about the consequences of their actions. One might think that the inertia in front of such an ecological crisis presented in these Québécois literary works comes from a lack of environmental awareness

Many Europeans, especially Germans, love to dress up as Indianer. They will escape their Stadt or Dorf to live for a weekend in a tipi, ever watchful for attacking tribes of other hobbyists coming ...

Why should we care about Marcel Cadieux? For Brendan Kelly, the answer lies in how this son of a Montreal postman, who rose to lead Canada’s Department of External Affairs (DEA) was shaped by “anti...

Enthusiasts of Margaret Atwood’s theory that Canada views the United States through a one-way mirror will find the nine articles of this anthology challenging. Their basic premise is that the Canad...

Tony Tremblay’s The Fiddlehead Moment: Pioneering an Alternative Canadian Modernism in New Brunswick is a long overdue account of literary activism between 1937 and 1967 in what was then perceived ...

This book by Robert Calderisi is certainly welcome since there have been few books published in English in recent years that examine the transformation of Quebec society. This book is dedicated in ...

In this eagerly awaited study of lacrosse—the creator’s game—Allan Downey cleverly resists and challenges the prevailing Canadian narrative of a national sport “invented” (that is, codified) in Mon...

ABSTRACT Québécois immigrant writers Dany Laferrière’s and Kim Thúy’s first novels, Comment faire l’amour avec un nègre sans se fatiguer (1985) and Ru (2009), both thematize the process of coming-to-writing and autofiction in parallel with the tropes of the sexualization of the nonwhite “other” in a global (post)colonial context. This article examines Laferrière’s and Thúy’s starkly different novels

ABSTRACT Like other political institutions in Canada, the judiciary has entered the digital age. Indeed, Canadian courts have been using Twitter for almost a decade. Despite this, there has been very little systematic examination of how Canadian courts use Twitter and the nature of the content they produce. While digital technologies create new challenges for all political actors, this is especially

ABSTRACT In the 1930s, a legal dispute upset Toronto’s kosher-slaughter and kosher-retail industry. The Kehilla, the governing body responsible for regulating the city’s kosher system, was accused of charging exorbitant prices for kosher slaughter. Moreover, several community butchers alleged that they had been ostracized from the Municipal Abattoir and coerced into signing binding agreements with

ABSTRACT African Caribbean Canadian author Dionne Brand’s At the Full and Change of the Moon augments many African diasporic narratives’ efforts to counter and rewrite exclusive histories. While Brand’s novel challenges and nuances dominant historical narratives by offering counter memory of African diasporic experiences, particularly experiences of enslavement, it also simultaneously illuminates the

ABSTRACT One of the many ironies about the Métis political leader, poet, and mystic Louis Riel (1844–1885) is that the most influential book written about him is not by a Canadian, much less a Métis, but by an American. The popularity among Canadian writers and visual artists of Joseph Kinsey Howard’s Strange Empire: A Narrative of the Northwest (1952) is puzzling, since Howard makes little effort

ABSTRACT In many western democracies, law has been the dominant occupational background of politicians. This raises the question whether lawyers get more votes when they run for election compared to non-lawyers. To our knowledge, this question has not been examined empirically over an extended period of time. Our study aims to fill this lacuna. We collected longitudinal data about the careers of all

ABSTRACT Canada has benefited more than most countries from the advantage of its geography, but proximity to the United States has created a cocoon of complacency on trade and security that is no longer assured. This makes the key question about the future of Canada-US relations whether the erratic “America First” impulses of Donald Trump will persist after he leaves the White House. If nationalist

ABSTRACT More than any previous presidential transition, the 2016 election of Donald Trump gave rise to fears on both sides of the border as to what consequences might follow for the state of the environment. In Canada, by contrast, the 2015 election of a Liberal government was widely expected to produce a significant increase in both environmental spending and regulation. Divergence in the environmental

ABSTRACT In this article, we focus on some key developments in Canada-US border relations. First, we discuss specific issues about personal information sharing and the searching of personal handheld devices at the Canada-US border, which relate to the Beyond the Border Agreement (2011). Furthermore, we consider the US-Canada Safe Third Country Agreement (STCA) (2004), which although earlier, is bound

ABSTRACT Donald Trump’s arrival in the White House has tested the special relationship between Canada and the US. Admittedly, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has had a harder time connecting with the new president than with his predecessor, President Barack Obama, but the difficulties between Washington and Ottawa go far beyond personal affinities. More specifically, Trump’s change of attitude toward

In politics as in life, relationships matter. For Canada, the most important of those political relationships has long been between presidents and prime ministers and the teams of public servants working under them. Managed properly, these relationships can result in historic achievements but, when embittered, bilateral cooperation begins to grind against the political friction. In 1940, Mackenzie

ABSTRACT Despite the political turbulence of the Trump-Trudeau era, the US-Canada relationship remains workable on many policy fronts. Against this backdrop, this article explores this relationship by first focusing on public opinion toward “the other,” including general sentiments as well as political leadership specifically, before turning to public opinion in specific policy fields, such as bilateral

ABSTRACT Donald Trump’s tenure as President of the United States has been among the most disruptive in American history. In many areas, President Trump has upended convention, undermined norms, and cast aspersions on a host of institutions. Trump’s imposition of punitive tariffs on steel and aluminum, along with the threat to withdraw from the NAFTA have been significant threats to the Canadian economy