Economic Policy & Development, Environmental Economics, Canada, World, General, Ecotourism, Canadian, Specific Topics, Economic Policy, Environmental policy, Money & Markets, Constitutional law, Canadian Constitutional Law 

"The oil sands. Global warming. The National Energy Program. Though these seem like modern Canadian subjects, author Mary Janigan reveals them to be a legacy of longstanding regional rivalry. Something of a "Third Solitude" since entering Confederation, the West has long been overshadowed by Canada's other great national debate: but as the conflict over natural resources and their effect on climate change heats up, 150 years of antipathy are coming to a head. Janigan takes readers back to a pivotal moment in 1918, when Canada's western premiers descended on Ottawa determined to control their own future - and as Margaret MacMillan did in Paris 1919, she deftly illustrates how the results reverberate to this day."--Pub. desc. 

Contents:

1. November 1918 Conference: Where the West Was Almost Lost -- 2. Riel Versus Macdonald: Contenders for the West. 1857 to Summer of 1870 -- 3. Norquay and Haultain: Two Western Champions and a Funeral. Late 1870 to 1897 -- 4. Haultain Loses Self-Control-And Laurier Keeps Resource Control. 1898 to 1905 -- 5. "A Burden Onerous to Bear": Frank Oliver Does It His Way. 1905 to August 1911 -- 6. Borden Dallies: The Birth of the Gang of Three. September 1911 to August 1914 -- 7. West's Bad War: Stalemate for the Gang of Three. August 1914 to Early March 1918 -- 8. Rest Versus The West: The Gang of Three Loses The Peace. March 1918 to November 1918 -- 9. "The Principles Have Been Completely Lost to Sight": Meighen Splits the Gang of Three. 1919 to 1921 -- 10. "We Are Very Desirous of Having This Long Standing Question Settled": Mackenzie King's On-the-Job Training. 1921 to 1925 -- 11. "This Makes a Virtual Reconstruction of Confederation": The Deal, the Depression and the Great Discovery, 1926 to 1947.