“A social scientist in Canada can only survive by virtue of a sense of humour”— Harold Innis
The ordinary citizen has a strong taste for scandals. They are an occasion for the powerless to glimpse the underbelly of the powerful, to froth sanctimoniously at the mouth over their bad deeds and to feed the fundamental cynicism about all public office holders that is so profoundly ingrained in the heart of each…
Gilles Paquet
Gilles Paquet is a professor emeritus and senior research fellow at the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa. His latest book, The New Geo-Governance: A Baroque Approach, was published in 2005 by University of Ottawa Press.