Boreal

The Fractured Nation Interviews

An Inquiry Into The Breakup

Contents

(Out-of-print)

Dedication

An Explanation and A Plea For The Interviews

Acknowledgments and Apologies

The Setting

Host and Guests

DIANE FRANCES SMITH

This Is the Way the World Ends

The Freeloader Economic Theory

What’s Québec Got to Do With It?

A Prime Minister Worries About Foreign Ownership

Trudeau Creates FIRA and the NEP

A Man in Love

Mulroney Guts FIRA and Brings In the FTA

Undoing the National Policy

Alberta, the Athabaska Tar Sands and Olga Friesen

The Link Between Culture and Economics

Johnny Won’t Let Diane Talk About “It”

MUHAMMAD ABDULLAH DOMEINI

Yeats, the Second Coming and Muhammad

A Death Defying Observation

Muhammad on the Roots of Western Civilization

Madrassas' Impact on National Unity

A Child's Imagination

Democracy, Liberty and Western Art as Blasphemies

Killing Conditions

The Supreme Court and Wife-beaters

The Supreme Court and the Age Of Consent

Khomeini On Sodomy And Bestiality

The Minaret and Steeple War

Muslims and Québec Independence

The Names of God and Praising the Prophet

TAMIL BOOM-BOOM SINGH

Johnny Decides To Talk About It.

Diane’s Letter

Canada and the Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire

Johnny Talks About Canada’s Early History

Boom-Boom Has His Own Version

My Brother’s Keeper?

Culture and Religion as Contributing Factors

Whose History Is It Anyway?

MAUDE ELIZABETH BARNSTONE

What's In A Name and the Apologetic Canadian

Praise the Lord and Slap the Wife

Sex and the Prophet

Immigration, Assimilation and an Oxymoron

The Big BS

I’ve Got A Secret I Won’t Tell

The Kent and Davey Reports

The Babelization of the Airwaves

A Taxing Question

You're a Racist. Admit It!

JEAN JOSEPH SOUVIENS

Eulogy for a Prodigal Son

What We Have Talked About So Far

The Canadian Federation

Canada With a K

Tough Love!

What Is a Country by Jean Joseph Souviens

Language - The Great Unifier

Shared History

Multiculturalism

Shared Values

Canada In a Nutshell

What About The Senate?

EPILOGUE

Postscript

Bibliography

Praise For The Interviews

Remembering

The Sequel: Remembering Uzza

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