Paddling with the current
Subtitle: Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Étienne Parent, liberalism, and nationalism in Canada
By: Claude Couture ; translated from French by Vivien Bosley.
Publisher: University of Alberta Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Edmonton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 137
Subjects: Trudeau, Pierre Elliott.; Parent, Etienne.; Trudeau, Pierre Elliott -- Et le libéralisme.; Liberalism -- Canada.; Nationalism -- Québec (Province); Nationalism -- Canada.; Libéralisme -- Canada.; Nationalisme -- Québec (Province); Nationalisme -- Canada.; Canada -- Politics and government -- 1945-; Canada -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
Description: "From the moment of his election in 1968 until his retirement in 1984, Pierre Elliot Trudeau dominated Canadian politics and shaped our institutions. In many ways - through his comments on the Meech Lake and Charlottetown accords, for example - he has continued to wield extraordinary influence."--BOOK JACKET.

"Claude Couture describes our inheritance from the Trudeau era as fractured between notions of collectivity and individual rights. Couture dissects this seeming paradox by examining the very nature of Trudeau's liberalism."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references: p. 123-137.
Translation of: La loyauté d'un laïc.
Table of contents: title: The asbestos strike; title: The new betrayal of the intellectuals; title: Étienne Parent: a liberal thinker one century before Pierre Elliott Trudeau; title: The just society: individual rights and collective rights.