A fair country
Subtitle: telling truths about Canada
By: John Ralston Saul
Publisher: Viking Canada
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780670068043
Subjects: Égalité (Sociologie); Canadian National characteristics; Native peoples; Conditions sociales; Indigenous peoples; Jämställdhet; Canadiens; Equality; Autochtones; Politics and government; Élite (Sciences sociales); Elite (Social sciences); Politisk verksamhet; Politique et gouvernement; Ursprungsbefolkningar; Social conditions; Sociala förhållanden; Identität
Description: Saul argues passionately that Canada is a Métis nation heavily influenced and shaped by Aboriginal ideas.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

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Table of contents: title: The power of a story; title: pt. I.A métis civilization; title: 1. What shaped us; title: 2. Marrying up; title: 3. Double denial; title: 4. Why we stumble; title: 5. Learning to see ourselves; title: 6. Progress; title: 7. Learning to imagine ourselves; title: 8. The minimal impairment of the environment; title: 9. Minimal impairment on the battlefield; title: 10. Within an ever-enlarging circle; title: pt. II. Peace, fairness and good government; title: 11. One word; title: 12. Colonial fairness; title: 13. Imagining a fair country; title: 14. Order and fear, fear and order; title: 15. The eddy line of fairness; title: pt. III. The castrati; title: 16. The nature of an elite; title: 17. Signs of failure; title: 18. What does all of this mean?; title: 19. How did they come to be this way?; title: 20. The colonial mind; title: 21. Two colonial tales; title: 22. The roots of failure; title: pt. IV. An intentional civilization; title: 23. From perception to action; title: 24. The North; title: 25. A circle of fairness.