Staying Canadian
the Struggle against UDI
- Publisher
- DC Books
- Initial publish date
- Nov 1997
- Category
- Constitutional, Constitutions
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780919688315
- Publish Date
- Nov 1997
- List Price
- $19.95
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780919688339
- Publish Date
- Nov 1997
- List Price
- $36.95
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Description
In October '95, under the control of the Quebec Liberal Party, the NO campaign avoided all mention of the key arguments against secession. Liberals never talked about the unconstitutional nature of the PQ's proposals, avoided all mention of why 50% + 1 in a Quebec-only referendum is no basis on which to break up the country, and never once said that if Canada is divisible, so is Quebec.
Staying Canadian documents the long journey provincial Equality Party leader Keith Henderson undertook in 1993 to help get the Quebec nationalist threat to Canada's territorial integrity before the Supreme Court and onto the national agenda.
About the authors
Keith Henderson has published five other novels with DC Books, The Restoration (1992), The Beekeeper (1990), The Roof Walkers (2013), Acqua Sacra (2016), and Sasquatch and the Green Sash (2018), political essays from when he was Quebec correspondent for the Financial Post (Staying Canadian,1997), as well as a prize-winning book of short stories, The Pagan Nuptials of Julia, 2006). He led the Equality Party during the separatist referendum of 1995, taught Canadian Literature at Vanier College for many years, has sat on numerous boards in Anglo-Quebec including ELAN and the AELAQ, and is currently President of The Special Committee for Canadian Unity. He is completing a critical autobiography with special focus on the works of Edith Wharton.
Editorial Reviews
"A talented journalist as well as a politician, Henderson...is to be commended for assembling [these articles] into one collection."
— Canadian Book Review Annual
"Perhaps it's time someone admitted that Keith Henderson is a fidgety, shifty-eyed political genius.... He and his Equality Party were the first to point out that any Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) by the National Assembly would be the illegal and revolutionary act of a rogue state... They forced Ottawa to refer the UDI matter to the Supreme Court, and the nation's nine wisest magiatrates decided, in effect, that Equality was right."
— The Mirror, Montreal
“A talented journalist as well as a politician, Henderson...is to be commended for assembling [these articles] into one collection.”
— Canadian Book Review Annual
“Perhaps it’s time someone admitted that Keith Henderson is a fidgety, shifty-eyed political genius.... He and his Equality Party were the first to point out that any Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) by the National Assembly would be the illegal and revolutionary act of a rogue state... They forced Ottawa to refer the UDI matter to the Supreme Court, and the nation’s nine wisest magiatrates decided, in effect, that Equality was right.”
— The Mirror, Montreal
