Quebec-Ontario Relations: A Shared Destiny?

Contributors

ConTRIBuToRs Michel Bock is associate professor at the University of Ottawa and chairholder of the Chaire de recherche sur l’histoire de la francophonie du Québec . His work examines the factors behind the rise and fall of French Canada as both an identity marker and an institutional reality, as well as the origin and scope of subsequent movements in French-speaking Canada . He has won the Governor General’s Award, the Prix Michel-Brunet (from Institut d’histoire de l’Amérique française), the Prix Champlain (from Conseil de la vie française en Amérique), and a medal from Quebec’s National Assembly . Alexandre Brassard is director of research at Glendon, the bilingual campus of York University in Toronto . He is also coordinator of the Center for Global Challenges, a bilingual public policy forum associated with the Glendon School of Public and International Affairs . He teaches courses in Quebec and Canadian politics, research methodology, and international studies . Linda Cardinal is professor at the School of Political Studies and chairholder of the Chaire de recherche sur la francophonie et les politiques publiques at the University of Ottawa . Her research has focused on the connection between politics and language, public policy and minority languages, the debate surrounding citizenship in Canada and Quebec, and Quebec and French Canadian intellectual history . She has published many articles and edited a number of works on these themes, including a recent special issue of Politique et sociétés, “Minorités, langue et politique” (2010), and a book, Le fédéralisme asymétrique et les minorités linguistiques et nationales (2008) . Guy Chiasson is professor of political science and regional development at Université du Québec en Outaouais . His chief research interest is territorial governance, including both rural areas and mid-sized cities . Recent work has focused primarily on changes in natural resource governance at both the local and public policy level . He is director of the Centre de recherche sur la gouvernance des ressources naturelles et du territoire and editor in chief of the journal Économie et solidarités . 286 Quebec–ontario Relations –A shared Destiny? Louis Côté is full professor at École nationale d’administration publique (ENAP) where he directs the Observatoire de l’administration publique research centre and edits Télescope magazine . For over twenty years he has worked as a consultant and trainer helping civil servants carry out administrative reform in Quebec and abroad . His two most recent works, L’État démocratique : fondements et défis (2008) and État stratège et participation citoyenne (coedited with Benoît Lévesque, 2009) were both published by Presses de l’Université du Québec . Alain-G. Gagnon is a professor at Université du Québec à Montréal’s Political Science Department and holds the Canada Research Chair in Quebec and Canadian Studies . He heads up Centre de recherche interdisciplinaire sur la diversité au Québec (CRIDAQ) as well as Groupe de recherche sur les sociétés plurinationales (GRSP) . Among his writings are La raison du plus fort: plaidoyer pour le fédéralisme multinational (2008) and L’âge des incertitudes: essais sur le fédéralisme et la diversité nationale (2011) . In 2008 he received the award of excellence from Société québécoise de science politique . In 2009, he was awarded a Universidad Carlos III de Madrid– Santander Bank Chair of Excellence, and in 2010 a Trudeau Foundation fellowship Marie-Christine Gilbert is a Ph .D . candidate in political studies at the University of Ottawa, where she is a member of the Institute of Canadian Studies and coordinator of the Chaire de recherche sur la francophonie et les politiques publiques . Her work has focused on Canadian federalism, specifically antifederalist thought in a historical perspective . In 2010 she published “(Re)Federalizing Canada: Refocusing the Debate on Decentralization ” with F . Rocher in R . Hubbard and G . Paquet (eds .), The Case for Decentralized Federalism . Catalina Gonzalez Hilarion is a Ph .D . student in political science at the University of Ottawa . She has taken part in a number of research projects on current trends in natural resource governance and other areas . Her own research examines the governmentalization of forestry policy from a comparative perspective . Peter Graefe is associate professor of political science at McMaster University , teaching in Canadian politics and public policy . He holds a Ph .D . from Université de Montreal . His research interests include economic and social development policies in Ontario and Quebec and intergovernmental relations in the field...