Reconsidering Confederation

P. Whitney Lackenbauer is a professor of History at St. Jerome's University (University of Waterloo) who specializes in Arctic sovereignty and security issues, Aboriginal-state relations, circumpolar history, and modern Canadian military, diplomatic and political history. He is the editor of the multi-award-winning A Historical and Legal Study of Sovereignty in the Canadian North (UCalgary Press). Chercheur indA (c)pendant, Daniel Heidt est specialiste en histoire politique de l'Ontario et du Canada ainsi que l'Arctique dans la pA (c)riode de la Guerre froide. Il a fondA (c) et gA (c)rA (c) Les DA (c)bats sur la ConfA (c)dA (c)ration. Ken S. Coates is a prolific author who has written on many subjects and whose prize-winning scholarship has drawn international attention. Coates has more than 25 years of post-secondary education experience in the United States, Canada, New Zealand, and Japan. Coates has been a Department Head, Dean of Arts, Dean of Arts and Science, and Vice-President. He lives in Canada. Marcel Martel is a professor in the Department of History at York University, where he holds the Avie Bennett Historica Dominion Institute Chair in Canadian History. He is the author of Not This Time: Canadians, Public Policy, and the Marijuana Question, 1961-1975 (2006), Le Deuil daun pays imaginA (c). RA?ves, luttes et dA (c)route du Canada franA?ais (1997), and co-author of Speaking Up. A History of Language and Politics in Canada and Quebec (2012). Colin M Coates teaches Canadian studies and history and is the Director of the Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies at York University. Phillip Buckner is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Commonwealth Studies at the University of London. He is also professor emeritus of History at the University of New Brunswick.