Thirty Years of Political and Constitutional Upheaval in Canada

In this podcast episode, Greg Marchildon interviews David R. Cameron. The book is The Daily Plebiscite: Federalism, Nationalism, and Canada and is a collection of his essays written over the past four decades. The book is edited by Cameron’s colleague, Robert C. Vipond, and published by the University of Toronto Press. These essays focus on the constitutional and political turmoil experience in Canada from the Quiet Revolution in Quebec of the 1960s until the second Quebec referendum of 1995 and the subsequent Quebec secession reference in the Supreme Court of Canada and the Clarity Act of 1999. David Cameron is currently Special Advisor to the President of the University of Toronto and a professor in the Department of Political Science. For many years before this, he was Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science at the University of Toronto. He worked for the federal government during the period of the first Quebec referendum, the negotiations that led to the Constitution Act 182, as Deputy Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs for the Government of Ontario during the Meech Lake Accord, and after as special constitutional advisor to the Premier of Ontario for the Charlottetown Accord and the second Quebec referendum. If you like our work, please consider supporting it: https://bit.ly/support_WTY. Your support contributes to the Champlain Society’s mission of opening new windows to directly explore and experience Canada’s past.