ネオ・リアリズムのなかのカナダ : カナダ政治文化の「変容」と「不変」
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This paper examines major changes in the political dimensions of Canada in recent years. Canada is now undergoing challenges to the fundamentals of her nationhood. My argument can be summarized in three developments : the creation of the Meech Lake Constitutional Accord, the popularity of the New Democratic Party, and the Canada-U. S. Free Trade Agreement. The Meech Lake Accord not only brought Quebec into the constitutional family of Canada, but also institutionalized new federal-provincial relations. The most important aspect of the Accord, symbolically is its recognition of Quebec as a "distinct society", but there are aspects of the Accord that are serious enough to balkanize Canada's political entity. The New Democratic Party temporarily showed an unprecedented high popularity in the opinion polls. Although the NDP has recently fallen to a more realistic level, we can hardly ignore the meaning of the challenge to the traditional political parties that it presented. The Free Trade Agreement increased the importance of the Canada-U. S. continental relationship. This agreement gave Canada a stronger presence on the North American Continent. But Canadians are less clear about the potential effects of the agreement on its cultural and political identity. The essential characteristics of Canada, however, remain the same. The three axes of the Canadian historical framework, the relations between the English and the French, those between Ottawa and the provinces, and indeed the relations between Canada and the U. S., have not changed. This paper therefore concludes with a brief exploration of both the dynamic changes in contemporary Canada and the unchangeable axes as historical realities.
- 上智大学の論文
- 1989-03-20