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Tax, Order, and Good Government, Volume 240 - A New Political History of Canada, 1867-1917 (Hardcover)
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Tax, Order, and Good Government, Volume 240 - A New Political History of Canada, 1867-1917 (Hardcover)
Series: Carleton Library Series
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Was Canada's Dominion experiment of 1867 an experiment in political
domination? Looking to taxes provides the answer: they are a
privileged measure of both political agency and political
domination. To pay one's taxes was the sine qua non of entry into
political life, but taxes are also the point of politics, which is
always about the control of wealth. Modern states have everywhere
been born of tax revolts, and Canada was no exception. Heaman shows
that the competing claims of the propertied versus the people are
hardwired constituents of Canadian political history. Tax debates
in early Canada were philosophically charged, politically
consequential dialogues about the relationship between wealth and
poverty. Extensive archival research, from private papers,
commissions, the press, and all levels of government, serves to
identify a rising popular challenge to the patrician politics that
were entrenched in the Constitutional Act of 1867 under the credo
"Peace, Order, and good Government." Canadians wrote themselves a
new constitution in 1867 because they needed a new tax deal, one
that reflected the changing balance of regional, racial, and
religious political accommodations. In the fifty years that
followed, politics became social politics and a liberal state
became a modern administrative one. But emerging conceptions of
fiscal fairness met with intense resistance from conservative
statesmen, culminating in 1917 in a progressive income tax and the
bitterest election in Canadian history. Tax, Order, and Good
Government tells the story of Confederation without exceptionalism
or misplaced sentimentality and, in so doing, reads Canadian
history as a lesson in how the state works. Tax, Order, and Good
Government follows the money and returns taxation to where it
belongs: at the heart of Canada's political, economic, and social
history.
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