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Article Excerpt
Christopher Adams. Politics in Manitoba: Parties, Leaders, and Voters. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2008. 233 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $24.95 sc.
Compared to studies of politics in other provinces, there is a dearth of material on Manitoba. This good, accessible book is a remedy. For our purposes in this journal, we might ask, "What does it tell us of ethnicity?" Christopher Adams retreads some established material on the cleavages between the province's charter group of Ontario-origin Anglo-Saxons and the early"have-less" immigrant groups from continental Europe, but he barely touches on the newer waves of immigrants from the Philippines, south Asia, and China. He gives attention, too, to aboriginals of which Manitoba, along with Saskatchewan, have the country's highest percentage.
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