Wiseman surveys history of Canada’s political parties in engaging new book, Partisan Odysseys

Longtime politicial science professor Nelson Wiseman talks about his new book, Partisan Odysseys: Canada's Political Parties.

Nelson Wiseman, pictured in this file photo in Ottawa. 'The book offers readers a broad factual synthetic picture of the parties as historical and legal organizations. A point that could have been made more explicit in the book is how, in one respect, party operation has come full circle.'The Hill Times file photograph by Jake Wright

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BY KATE MALLOY

June 3, 2020

Nelson Wiseman, director of the Canadian studies program at the University of Toronto and a longtime political science professor, says he realized Canadians weren't terribly aware of some of the historical forces that have shaped our country's federal political parties, so he wrote Partisan Odysseys...

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