| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.3

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Paul Romney. Getting it Wrong: How Canadians Forgot Their Past and Imperilled Confederation. Buffalo, N.Y.: University of Toronto Press. 1999. Pp. x, 332. Cloth $60.00, paper $22.95.

This important book delivers a new, challenging view of Canada's constitutional and political history. Its main purpose is to recuperate what its author sees as a critical—but long forgotten—dimension of English-speaking Canada's political and constitutional past: its once strong concern with provincial autonomy and the compact theory of Confederation. 1

For much of the nineteenth century, Paul Romney argues, an orientation toward provincial rights and entitlements was foundational both to the English-speaking Canadian approach to nation-building and to the success of the nation-building enterprise itself. Rooted in the Upper Canadian reform movement's preoccupation with colonial self-government, that orientation put the most substantial part of English-speaking Canada on the same constitutional ground as the critically significant French-speaking community next door. United in support of the idea that the provinces of which British North America consisted should control their own affairs, Upper and Lower Canadian reformers—and their successors in Canada East and West and Quebec and Ontario—cooperated in a series of moves, the effect of which was to build British North America into a national community of self-governing provinces fully autonomous and sovereign (as they saw it) within their fields of legislative competence. . . .

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