Overview
Through extensive interviews with the key participants, Professor Borins reveals the interplay of organizational ideologies and interests and leaders' personalities that characterized the conflict. He traces its evolution from the early formation of a francophone pressure group, through the airline pilots' strike in June 1976 in support of the controllers, to the agreement between the pilots' and controllers' unions and the Minister of Transport which the French Canadians saw as a humiliating defeat, and to the eventual acknowledgement by the Clark government in August 1979 that bilingual air traffic control was safe. Borins discusses the implications of these events for public policy and French-English relations and concludes that the federal government's ability in this case to meet francophone demands quite rapidly is cause for optimism about the ability of the federal state to accommodate francophone aspirations.
Full Product Details
Author: Sandford F. Borins
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Imprint: McGill-Queen's University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.00cm
, Height: 1.70cm
, Length: 23.00cm
Weight: 0.449kg
ISBN: 9780773504035
ISBN 10: 0773504036
Pages: 303
Publication Date: 01 April 1983
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Out of Stock Indefinitely
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
...a remarkable accomplishment. (Borins's) research is uniquely thorough, his judgments fair and balanced, and the book's style altogether elegant, indeed often gripping. Keith Spicer, former Commissioner of Official Languages. Deserving of the highest praise...this book will help the public to better understand the rather traumatic events of the summer of '76. James M. Livingston, former President, Canadian Air Traffic Control Association.
. ..a remarkable accomplishment. (Borins's) research is uniquely thorough, his judgments fair and balanced, and the book's style altogether elegant, indeed often gripping. Keith Spicer, former Commissioner of Official Languages. Deserving of the highest praise...this book will help the public to better understand the rather traumatic events of the summer of '76. James M. Livingston, former President, Canadian Air Traffic Control Association.
...a remarkable accomplishment. (Borins's) research is uniquely thorough, his judgments fair and balanced, and the book's style altogether elegant, indeed often gripping. Keith Spicer, former Commissioner of Official Languages. Deserving of the highest praise...this book will help the public to better understand the rather traumatic events of the summer of '76. James M. Livingston, former President, Canadian Air Traffic Control Association.
Author Information
Born in Toronto and educated at Harvard University, Sandford F. Borins has been a consultant for many government agencies and is now associate professor of business and public policy in the Faculty of Administrative Studies at York University.
