List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. The West Outside In -- 2. Demography and the Future of the West in Canada -- 3. The West and Canada's Shifting Economic Centre of Gravity -- 4. Considerations on the West as a Political Region -- 5. Western Canada and the World -- 6. From Periphery to Centre
Summary
"Although a history of protest politics has done so much to define western Canada and to place it outside the Canadian mainstream, the aspirations and frustrations that animated western discontent over the years have been replaced by a new reality: the West is in, and many of the levers of national economic and political power rest in western Canadian hands. The protest tradition has yielded a dynamic region that leads rather than reacts to national economic, social, and political change."--Publisher's website
