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National Politics and Community in Canada ed. by R. Kenneth Carty, W. Peter Ward (review)

For Canadian nationalists Canada exists, but existence is not enough. Canada must have a distinctive identity, an essence, which links past, present, and future. Since the days of Canada First, the problem has been to identify and to reveal this identity. This volume is part of the never-ending quest. The editors, in their introduction, are sure that the essence of Canada will prove to be the product of the Canadian political experience. Canada is, after all, a political creation, and the Canadian community is a political community. Regrettably, academics of recent years seem to have been distracted by social history or regionalism or interest groups, and have lost sight of the national reality. Political scientists and historians met in a seminar at the Learned Societies in