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The book investigates a number of connected issues related to Canada and its environment, in order to examine the ongoing processes of preservation and distruction of the green landscapes of an immense country, through an interdisciplinary approach, encompassing different theoritical and methodological tools

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements -- Biographies -- Introduction Elizabeth Goodyear-Grant and Kyle Hanniman -- GENERAL ASSESSMENTS -- 1 Federalism Reform and Democratic Renewal for a Country Based on Incomplete Conquests -- 2 Canadian Federalism, Democracy, and Political Legitimacy -- DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS -- 3 Notwithstanding the Charter: Does Section 33 Accommodate Federalism? -- 4 The Challenge of Modernizing an Upper Chamber of a Federal Parliament in a Constitutional Monarchy: The Senate of Canada in the Twenty-first Century -- 5 The Perils and Paranoia of Senate Reform: Does Senate Independence Threaten Canadian Democracy? -- 6 Competing Diversities: Representing "Canada" on the Supreme Court -- 7 Who Participated? Examining Citizen Participation in Electoral Reform -- 8 Normative Justifications for Democratic Design: The Case of Canadian Electoral Reform -- 9 The Federalist Case for Electoral Reform in Canada -- FEDERALISM FOR DIVERSITY: FRENCH AND ENGLISH -- 10 Policy on Québec Affirmation and Canadian Relations -- 11 Federalism "Plus"? Carving a Space of Non-Territorial Autonomy in a Federal State: The Case of Official-Language Minorities in Canada -- FEDERALISM FOR DIVERSITY: INDIGENOUS GOVERNANCE -- 12 Beyond Crown Sovereignty: Good Governance and Treaty Constitutionalism -- 13 Nation Tables and the BCTC Tic-Tac-Toe? -- INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS -- 14 Imagining Canada: Narratives of Federalism in Intergovernmental Organizations -- 15 The Politics of Federal-Local Intergovernmental Relations in Canada.

Identities -- Population profile of First Nations in the twenty-first century -- Indian Affairs/Aboriginal affairs and northern development Canada -- Economic growth and development -- Crime, justice, and victims -- The well-being of First Nations people -- Formal education : reading, writing, and assimilation -- Land, treaties, and claims -- The urbanization of First Nations people -- Aboriginal rights, self-government, and sovereignty