Canada's national question is self-defeating: attempts to constitute a Canadian political community generate polarizing and depoliticizing deliberations.

1) Introduction: The Bind That Ties

2) Confounding Debates

3) Just Nationalism? Individual versus Collective Rights

4) Decoding Deep Diversity

5) Nationalism Disentangled: The New Treason of theIntellectuals

6) The Arithmetic of Canadian Citizenship

7) Misrepresenting the Canadian Conversation

8) Civil Eyes: Seeing "Difference Blind"

9) There's No Place Like Home

Notes

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Index