Reconfigurations: Canadian Citizenship and Constitutional Change

Joseph Garcea is a professor of political Studies at the University of
Saskatchewan.

The principal focus of this invaluable collection of essays on Canadian
federalism, citizenship, and constitutional change has to do with the
contests between governments, nations, and people that have shaped
contemporary history and are likely to shape our future as we approach
the new millennium. In his introduction, Cairns mentions the observation
of one historian that each political generation must write its own
history in order to produce a picture of itself. This is precisely what
Cairns manages to achieve in this volume. The essays are written with a
clarity and simplicity that belies both the complexity of the subject
matter and the profundity of the author’s perceptions and ideas. For
anyone trying to make sense of the changing political cultures and
political system, Reconfigurations is indispensable reading.