Name: Staying Canadian
Brand: DC Books (US)
SKU: 9780919688315
Price: 15.99 GBP
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Staying Canadian

The Struggle Against UDI

By (author): Keith Henderson

Published by DC Books (US)

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£15.99

Format: Paperback
Pages: 258
ISBN: 9780919688315
Publication Date: 01-Dec-1997

Subjects:
History of the Americas
Constitution: government & the state
Canada

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In October 1995, under the control of the Quebec Liberal Party, the NO campaign avoided all mention of the key arguments against secession. Liberals never talked about the unconstitutional nature of the PQ's proposals, avoided all mention of why 50% + 1 in a Quebec-only referendum is no basis on which to break up the country, and never once said that if Canada is divisible, so is Quebec. This book documents the long journey provincial Equality Party leader Keith Henderson undertook in 1993 to help get the Quebec nationalist threat to Canada's territorial integrity before the Supreme Court and onto the national agenda.

Keith Henderson has published four other novels with DC Books, The Restoration (1992), The Beekeeper (1990), The Roof Walkers (2013) and Sasquatch and the Green Sash (2018), political essays from when he was Quebec correspondent for the Financial Post (Staying Canadian, 1997), as well as a prize-winning book of short stories (The Pagan Nuptials of Julia, 2006). He led a small provincial political party in Quebec during the separatist referendum of 1995 and championed anglo language rights and the strategy of partitioning Quebec if ever Quebec partitioned Canada. He has taught Canadian Literature for many years.

Keith Henderson was born in Montreal. Educated at McGill, Concordia, and the University of Toronto, he teaches English at Vanier College in Montreal. He was elected leader of Quebec's Equality Party in 1993. He was an intervener in the historic 1998 Supreme Court of Canada decision of unilateral declarations of independence.