University at the Library Public Lecture Series

Posted April 22, 1998


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - April 22, 1998
98-04-08-EX

University at the Library Public Lecture Series

Can Canada Survive Without Quebec?

To wrap up the monthly University at the Library public lecture series
for this season, Alan Cairns addresses the question, Can Canada
Survive Without Quebec? The noon-hour lecture will be held on April
28 in room 3 at the main branch of the Saskatoon Public Library.

Sponsored by the University of Saskatchewan Extension Division,
along with the Saskatoon Public Library and the Royal Society, the
University at the Library public lecture series features university
professors who are also elected Fellows of the Royal Society. They talk
about current areas of research and development at the University.
Coffee and tea will be available and you are invited to bring your lunch.

In his upcoming presentation, Cairns asks what will happen to the rest
of us if Quebec leaves Canada after the next Quebec referendum?
Should we prepare? If so, how? We have Plan A and Plan B, but
neither of them pays any attention to the future of Canada without
Quebec. Is sleep-walking into the future a good enough response?

Cairns was the research director (institutions) for the Royal Commission
on the Economic Union and Development Prospects for Canada (1983-
85). In 1982, he received the Molson Prize of the Canada Council. He
has been visiting professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland, the
University of Edinburgh, Harvard University and the University of
Toronto. In 1994, he received the Governor General?s International
Award for Canadian Studies. He was the first holder of the Brenda and
David McLean Chair in Canadian Studies at the University of British
Columbia (1993-95), and the John Willis Distinguished Visiting
Professor in the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto (1995-96). He
received honorary degrees from Carleton University (1994) and from the
University of Toronto (1996). He also holds the Law Foundation of
Saskatchewan Chair in the College of Law, University of Saskatchewan
for 1997.

The University at the Library Lecture Series will resume in the fall.
Future presentations will address a wide variety of social, scientific,
ethical and creative topics.

For more information, contact:

George James or Bert Wolfe
Extension Division Extension Division
University of Saskatchewan University of Saskatchewan
(306) 966-5560 (306) 966-5558