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Brian Lee Crowley. Fearful Symmetry - the Fall and Rise of Canada's Founding Values
foreword andrew coyne
preface
PART ONE | CANADA OLD AND NEW. 1. introduction: symmetry’s halves
Where Were You in ’62?
Vertigo Warning: Don’t Look Down
Help Wanted
How the Future Will Differ from the Past
Labour Shortages, Gryphons, Unicorns and Other Mythical Animals
Reports of Capitalism’s Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
2. Our Forgotten Political Tradition Vindicated
Neither America nor Europe: Where Canada Fits In
Sharing out the Booty
Why You Can’t Just Mind Your Own Business
PUPPETRY’s Legacy
Symmetry Casts Its Shadow Ahead
PART TWO | THE RISE OF THE NEW CANADA. 3. Quebec and Ottawa: The Bidding War Unleashed
French Canada Is Dead. Long Live Quebec
Hors de l’État, point de salut
Quebec: The Welfare State
Sorry, I Don’t Speak French
A Very Canadian Coup
You Are Not from Around Here, Are You?
You Say Multiculturalism, I Say Interculturalisme
Quebec: The Let’s-Make-a-Deal State
Canada’s Response: Unity through Profligacy
Bilingualism: A Loser’s Guide
The Maple Leaf Forever ... or at Least Until It’s Inconvenient
My Government Can Spend More Than Your Government
No Prosperity, Please; We’re Quebeckers
A note to readers
4. Work and the Meaning of the Content of Our Character
Our Founders’ Theory of Happiness
First and Second Natures
The Hardest Job Is No Job
Working Your Way to Happiness
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Welfare State
Letting Ourselves off the Hook
The End of Welfare as We Know It, the Return of Character as We Knew It
5. Perverting the Course of (Social) Justice: Pseudo-work, Corporate Welfare, and Trade Unionism
The Scale of Pseudo-work
Crown Corporations: Affecting to Trade for the Public Interest
Fishermen and Dairy Farmers Bring Home the Bacon
Trade Unions and Pseudo-work: A Match Made in Heaven
Why the Public Sector Is Different
Taking Pseudo-work Private
Out with the Old, in with the New
6. Family and the Audacity of Love
Family: The International Experience
The British Family
Family in the United States
Why Family Will Matter More in Canada, Too
Work and Marriage, Work and Marriage, Go Together Like ..
What Children Learn at Home
The Welfare State Comes Home
Forget the Village; It Takes Parents to Raise a Child
Family and Love Stage a Comeback
How Marriage Changes Adults
Thanks for Nothing
How to Have It All
Breaking up Is Hard to Do
What Do Women (and Men) Really Want?
The State Loves Me, It Loves Me Not, It Loves Me, It Loves Me Not ..
Beyond Marriage: Family across the Generations
7. Nationalism and Welfarism in Quebec and the Consequences for Canada
Be Careful What You Wish For: The Consequences of the Nationalist Strategy
Private Investment: Come Flee with Us
The Taxman Cometh
Social Solidarity: Who, Whom?
Minimum Wage, Maximum Damage
What Price Winning?
Of Fighter Planes and Milk Quotas
Psssst, Buddy. Need a Job?
Bilingualism as Affirmative Action
The Grantrepreneurial Economy
Governments Are Known by the Companies They Keep
How Do You Say “Tipping Point” in French?
The Quebec Family: An Endangered Species
But Are You Really Happy?
Where Did Everyone Go?
Whether They Come Depends on What You Build
PART THREE | THE NEW CANADA’S FALL AND TRADITION’S RISE FROM THE ASHES. 8. Symmetry’s Turning Point and a Tiny Window on the Future
9. Why the Rest of the World Cannot Save Us
Immigration’s Contribution
Who Is in Charge Here Anyway?
Don’t Call Us, We’ll Call You: Immigrants
Don’t Forget International Trade in Goods
10. The Two Nations in Canada’s Future: Lord Durham Updated
Let My People Go
Two Nations Warring in the Bosom of a Single State
Why We Will Hear More from Those Who Foot the Bill
Getting More from Less
Why Creative Destruction Is Good for You
Tax Me, I’m Productive
What It Looks Like on the Ground
11. Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night: Work for All and All in Work
12. Family’s Comeback and Fertility’s Return
The Great Demographic Outlier
If the World Needs More Canada, You Know What to Do
Government as Contraceptive
What’s Love Got to Do with It?
Make Young Men More Attractive Marriage Partners by Increasing Their Economic Value
Make Marriages with Children Harder to Get out Of
Think More Seriously about the Behaviour We Want to Reward
13. Quebec’s Power Within Canada: High Tide and After
Quebec’s Bargaining Power Leaking Away
The Precursors
Quebec’s Awakening
Common Ground
14. The New Traditionalists
notes
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