Joanne Paul: evaluation

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…What is it about Canadian history that interests you most, even if you don’t work on it or write on it? Part of me would like to. I loved Canadian history when I was doing it at high school and then at university and even a little bit during my master’s. I’m, by training, an intellectual historian, so I’m interested in the history of ideas. I’m interested in the way in which Canada has produced a really interesting intellectual history, one that really draws, I think, on republican thought, obviously on federal thought, on the idea of creating a federation, but one that has also really contributed to discourses around multiculturalism. Some of the leading theorists on multiculturalism have come from Canada. I’m interested in that story of what really makes Canadian political thought and the way that that has impacted other schools of thought around the world. What, for you, is the biggest puzzle in Canadian intellectual history, the thing you’d like to understand but you don’t and it gnaws at you and people argue about it?…

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