Title: Fearful symmetry
Subtitle: the fall and rise of Canada's founding values
Description: "Two forces have shaped Canada profoundly in the last fifty years: the entry of Boomers into the workforce and the rise of a separatist Quebec nationalism. Large-scale unemployment plus the threat of the breakup of the country caused Canada to jettison its traditional values--a ferocious work ethic, a commitment to the family as the most important social institution, a suspicion of overweening government, and an aversion to dependence--in favour of a vast expansion of the welfare state. We rapidly became a nation of "takers" rather than the "makers" we had always been. But the tide is about to turn with a vengeance: the Boomers are retiring and Quebec nationalism is increasingly a spent force, presaging a resurgence of our founders' values that had served us so well"--From publisher's description.
Subjects: Welfare state, Social policy, Public welfare, Economic policy, Nationalism, History, Public welfare--history, Public welfare--canada--history, Nationalism--history, Nationalism--québec (province)--history, Welfare state--history, Welfare state--canada--history, Hc115 .c765 2009, 971.064
Places: Canada, Québec (Province)
Time periods: 1963-, 1945-