Cdn Annual Review 1987 (CANADIAN ANNUAL REVIEW OF POLITICS AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS)

By Roddick Beaumont Byers

"The Canadian Annual Review" has become an indispensable reference work for all concerned with Canadian public affairs. Complied by a corps of Canadian scholars and experts, it offers both a concise, convenient record of the year's events and an authoritatibve appraisal of developments.The present volume covers events in a watershed year. In constitutional matters 1987 saw the most important even since the passage of the Constitutional Act of 1982: the Meech Lake Accord.In the House of Commons, new drug patent legislation and a bill to control more tightly the influx of immigrants and refugees faced strenuous opposition. A proposal to reinstate capital punishment was rejected in a free vote.Overall the Canadian economy performed well, although slumping oil and gas prices continued to create problems in the western provinces, Ontario Premier David Peterson was re-elected, this time with an overwhelming Liberal majority. But the dominant story in Canadian newspapers throughout the year was free trade with the United States.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802058515
• ISBN13: 9780802058515
• Release Date: November 1991
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
• Length: 402 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.3" x 6.4"