By Mary Janigan
The oil sands. worldwide warming. The nationwide strength software. notwithstanding those look like sleek Canadian topics, writer Mary Janigan unearths them to be a legacy of longstanding local contention. anything of a "Third Solitude" considering coming into Confederation, the West has lengthy been overshadowed through Canada's different nice nationwide debate: yet because the clash over normal assets and their impact on weather switch heats up, one hundred fifty years of antipathy are coming to a head. Janigan takes readers again to a pivotal second in 1918, while Canada's western premiers descended on Ottawa made up our minds to manage their very own future--and as Margaret MacMillan did in Paris 1919, she deftly illustrates how the consequences reverberate to at the present time.
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