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Book SynopsisWhat happened to the Quebec sovereignty movement after 1995? In Sleeping Dogs, Andrew McDougall reveals how a change in federalist strategy, combined with an improving political context, helped Canada stabilize its federal system and bury the Quebec question for the foreseeable future.
The book identifies five potential reasons the Quebec sovereignty movement lost momentum and argues that all contributed to a political environment that benefited federalists. McDougall explores topics of elite accommodation, generational change, changing identity politics, economic globalization, and constitutional fatigue. He argues that Canada’s federalist political elites have capitalized on these developments to stabilize the country by dropping the national question even when they might still hold very different visions of the Constitution. Building on constitutional abeyance theory, the author conceives of this strategic change as the restoration of a constitutional abeya
Table of Contents
1. Introduction 2. An Abeyance Restored: The “Quebec Question” as the New Taboo 3. Constitutional Fatigue 4. Non-constitutional Accommodation 5. Quebec’s Changing Identity Politics 6. Generational Change 7. Economic Globalization 8. Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
