Canadian Federalism

Global model or global failure? That is the Canadian question. Canadian federalism seems to be a successful compromise between today's opposing forces: capitalism and socialism, centralism and localism, globalism and sovereignty, pluralism and ethnocentrism. The UN ranks Canada at the top of its development index. Yet the close result of the 1995 referendum in Quebec has raised once again the question of the possible break-up of Canada. The US Congress listens to earnest lectures about the coming chaos, and Canadians get a strange case of Mad-Canada Disease, as an otherwise healthy body-politic begins to faint and fall from eating the offal of its own bad news, while the rest of the world looks on and does not understand

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