"Home to one third of Canada’s population, the political significance of the West is steadily growing. The New Politics of Western Canada offer insights into the ideas, interests, and political movements based in the West that shape many conversations in contemporary Canadian politics. As various chapters note, Western conversations on both the left and the right inform national debates. This collection is an important contribution to the study of Canadian politics."

Lisa Young, Department of Political Science, University of Calgary

"The contributors to The New Politics of Western Canada rescue us from a bankrupt, narrow focus on “Western alienation” to a critical exploration of the racial, gender, class, environmental, and provincial conflicts within the colonial-settler region referred to as 'Western Canada,' including ongoing struggles of Indigenous people to regain sovereignty and to maintain their cultures and land base. This is a refreshing reset in discussions about politics in a region once presented as a unified entity only of interest in terms of its elites’ conflicts with central Canadian elites."

Alvin Finkel, professor emeritus, Department of History, Athabasca University