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Inroadsthe Canadian Journal of Opinion | Issue No TURKEY’S ELECTORAL AUTHORITARIANISM │ HOUSING LUNACY IN TORONTO AND VANCOUVER InroadsThe Canadian Journal of Opinion | Issue No. 41 | Summer/Fall 2017 | $14.95 LIBERAL DEMOCRACY UNDER SIEGE REPORTS FROM THE FRONT LINES Russian President Vladimir Putin with France’s Marine Le Pen ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN Ronald Beiner on Steve Bannon 41 Gareth Morley on Neil Gorsuch WE RELY ON YOUR SUBSCRIPTION TO PRODUCE GREAT ANALYSIS Back issues still available PRINT AND ONLINE 1 year (2 issues) $25 2 years(4 issues)$45 INSTITUTIONS AND LIBRARIES 2 years $60 It’s not too late to be informed SINGLE ISSUE (current)$15 For back issues and bulk orders, contact plus shipping [email protected] INROADSinroadsjournal.ca InroadsThe Canadian Journal of Opinion | Issue No. 41 | Summer/Fall 2017 Back issues still available INROADS COLUMNISTS The Trumping of liberal democracy We’ve seen Trump’s like before Across the great divide by Reg Whitaker……6 by Garth Stevenson……10 by Arthur Milner……16 LEGALIZATION Cannabis: The road to legalization An interview with Craig Jones….20 HOUSING Housing price lunacy moves east The affordability crisis that started in Vancouver has now enveloped Toronto INROADS by Josh Gordon……25 POPULISM AND RUSSIA The Kremlin strikes back in Central and Eastern Europe by Filip Kostelka and Eva Krejčová……64 Italy’s second political earthquake In 2013 as in 1994, popular dissatisfaction led to political realignment by Giorgio Malet……72 The populist insurgency and Hans Brinker and the Dutch election its Russian friends Populist nationalists lose, but also win by Henry Milner……38 by Paul Lucardie……78 The European Union and the STEVE BANNON populist challenge by John Erik Fossum……46 The rise, and apparent fall, of President Bannon Germany’s political landscape: by Ronald Beiner……83 Uncertainty amid stability by Philipp Harfst……51 The centre holds – just But French and English political institutions are in disarray by John Richards……57 PUBLISHERS BOOK REVIEW EDITOR CIRCULATION MANAGER We acknowledge the financial Henry Milner and John Richards Reg Whitaker Frances Boylston assistance of the Canadian Government through the MANAGING EDITOR LISTSERV MODERATOR WEBSITE DESIGN Canada Periodical Fund Bob Chodos Dominic Cardy Epixia Technologies Printed by Printwell Offset, The Details Design & Branding Brampton, Ontario EDITORIAL BOARD DESIGN & PRODUCTION Sam Awwad Linda Cardinal, Dominic Cardy, Nadene Rehnby & Pete Tuepah Member of Magazines Canada Bob Chodos, Arthur Milner, handsonpublications.com © Contents may not be and the Independent Press Henry Milner, Gareth Morley, reprinted without permission Association Finn Poschmann, Philip Resnick, BUSINESS MANAGER Published twice a year by John Richards, Garth Stevenson, Frances Boylston Inroads Journal Publishing Inc. Reg Whitaker NEIL GORSUCH LANGUAGE Can a bilingual province become a bilingual people? New Brunswick’s image as an oasis of linguistic harmony masks some complex issues by Mathieu Wade……126 POEMS Law as politics, politics as law by Gareth Morley……96 MUSINGS ON MODERNITY by Philip Resnick……136 TURKEY BOOKS Turkey: Moving toward electoral authoritarianism? by Ilter Turan……104 EDUCATION Integrating immigrants: How well are Canadian schools doing? Vimy and Vimyism by John Richards……114 by Bob Chodos……139 EDITORIAL INQUIRIES BUSINESS OFFICE Indexed in CPI, CBCA, SUBSCRIPTIONS 280 Huron Street 280 Huron Street Historical Abstracts, ABC: print and online: New Hamburg, Ontario New Hamburg, Ontario PoliSci, America: History and one year $25; two years $45 N3A 1J5 N3A 1J5 Life, IBSS institutions and libraries: tel: 519-662-3390 two years $60 DISTRIBUTION fax: 519-662-3594 Publications Mail Agreement online only: one year $15 Magazines Canada No. 40808027 email: inroads@ US mailing addresses add $10 inroadsjournal.com ISSN 118-746x International addresses add $20 Return undeliverable Canadian addresses to prices include taxes and shipping www.inroadsjournal.cawww.inroadsjournal.ca business office GST registration: 133724039 Introducing Inroads 41 ne morning in the third week turn for insightful analysis of world-changing of April, as this issue of developments of this kind. While we have Inroads was taking shape, been examining the populist challenge for the I woke up, as I often do, to last year or so, we offer our most sustained a CBC radio newscast. The top three items and systematic coverage in this issue, with a were allegations of irregularities in the Turkish particular focus on the role of Russia. Oconstitutional referendum that had just taken The election of Donald Trump as President place; Ontario’s nonresident speculation tax, of the United States and the tumultuous early about to be introduced; and a scene-setter for months of his administration have occupied a the first round of the French presidential elec- disproportionate amount of media space, but tion, scheduled for that Sunday. Despite our perhaps the most significant developments leisurely twice-a-year publication schedule, in the populist-versus-mainstream struggle Inroads strives to be timely. As I listened to have been taking place in Europe, and our that newscast, I realized that with this issue theme section devotes most of its attention to we had succeeded to an uncommon degree. that continent. Henry Milner and John Erik Being timely is always a virtue in journal- Fossum provide an overview. Milner takes a ism, but there are reasons for placing special wide-ranging look at the erosion of democracy, emphasis on this virtue right now. The rise of while Fossum analyzes the nature of populism populist parties and movements, their chal- and its ambivalent relationship with the lenge to established Western institutions and European Union. to classic left-right political divisions, and Five articles look at the varying ways apparent Russian involvement in helping them in which these dynamics are playing out in along have thrown into question assumptions different parts of Europe. Philipp Harfst that have prevailed for a generation or more. acknowledges Germany’s apparent stability, We see Inroads as a place where readers can but notes that the populist Alternative for PAGE 4 | FRONT MATTER Germany has gained representation in a series Tayyip Erdoğan narrowly won his bid for of regional elections. John Richards is only increased powers. mildly comforted by Emmanuel Macron’s Canada has been essentially a bystander in presidential victory in France, and looks these developments, but it is not isolated from ahead to Britain’s June election. He describes what is happening in the rest of the world. political institutions in both countries as In a follow-up to his analysis of Vancouver’s being in “disarray.” Filip Kostelka and Eva housing bubble a year ago, Josh Gordon looks Krejčová report on the methods Russia is at both Vancouver and Toronto and notes using to reestablish its influence in its former the “toxic” social effects of unaffordable empire, Central and Eastern Europe. Giorgio housing, which has its roots in capital flight Malet provides background to Italy’s two from China. He proposes a remedy, one that “electoral earthquakes” of 1994 and 2013. found its way into the recent British Columbia Paul Lucardie explains why if the Dutch elec- election campaign. tion of March 15 wasn’t a victory for Geert Also in this issue: Wilders’s populist Freedom Party, it wasn’t • While finding that, overall, Canadian exactly a defeat either. schools are doing well at integrating im- Although Europe is our main focus, we migrants, John Richards also identifies don’t ignore the United States. Ronald Beiner trends that raise doubts about whether searches for the core of “Bannonism,” which this success can continue. may well survive as a movement regardless of • Mathieu Wade explains why although whether chief strategist Steve Bannon remains New Brunswick is a bilingual province, in favour in the White House. Gareth Morley New Brunswickers have not succeeded examines the significance of Trump’s appoint- in becoming a bilingual people. ment of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court. • In an interview with Gareth Morley, Trump and his context are also the subject of Craig Jones of the National Organiza- two political columns. Reg Whitaker is con- tion for the Reform of Marijuana Laws cerned about the loss of democratic trust and expresses qualified approval of Ottawa’s the possibility of authoritarian rule. Garth proposed legislation legalizing cannabis. Stevenson finds in Trump echoes of earlier populists like William Jennings Bryan and • Arthur Milner looks at two ways Huey Long, and even such mainstream figures of crossing North America’s “great as John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. divide.” Turkey is another country where democ- • As we mark the 100th anniversary of the racy has been subject to increasing authoritar- Battle of Vimy Ridge, I review a book ian pressures, and we are fortunate to have that is highly critical of the notion that the distinguished Turkish political scientist Vimy marked the birth of the Canadian Ilter Turan provide background to the April nation. 16 referendum in which President Recep — Bob Chodos INROADS 41 | PAGE 5 Inroads 41 | OPINION The Trumping of liberal democracy by Reg Whitaker his has been called the post-truth age. Science, reason, logic, facts have been losing their substance, fading into ideology, myth, conspiracy and paranoia. Now, thanks to some 63 million Americans minimally literate enough to cast a ballot, we have Donald Trump. Con man, egomaniac, pathological liar, sexual predator, manifestly Tunfit by character for high public office. Yet here he is, alleged “leader of the free world” with his finger on the nuclear trigger. He has suddenly driven America to the brink of destroying the liberal international order painstakingly built up over the past seven decades; of reversing the hopeful efforts to deal with threats to the Reg Whitaker global environment; of returning race hatred, misogyny, bigotry and is a political intolerance to the very centre of American values. And all the while, columnist for together with his glitzy family and grisly entourage, he schemes Inroads and a member of its to make as much money as he can from his latest, greatest scam.
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