{"product_id":"getting-it-wrong-9780802081056","title":"Getting it Wrong","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn a snowy November day in 1872, the premier of Ontario is speaking in his constituency, and he tells a story - the story of his people's long struggle for liberty ...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith this vignette Paul Romney leads us onto a lost middle ground between conflicting visions of Canada's past. He reminds that both French and English Canadians once regarded Confederation as a compact of provinces and of peoples, designed to permit each partner to cultivate its own distinct society. In English Canada that original conception gave way to a nationalist myth, which alienated French Canadians by its celebration of nation-building and exaltation of federal power. English Canada's forgetting resulted in a \"historic blunder\" - patriation of the Canadian constitution without Quebec's consent.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow did that happen? Romney presents the politics of nineteenth-century Ontario as a confrontation between two competing myths - one of resistance to subversion, and one of resistance to oppression. The lat\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51768056938839,"sku":"9780802081056","price":37.36,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780802081056.jpg?v=1758716103","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/getting-it-wrong-9780802081056","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}