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Ever since Comte first set the agenda of social science, his megalomania lingers on in sociology, political science, and other disciplines.

— Thomas Flanagan Game Theory and Canadian Politics (1998)

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Canadian society' or the 'Canadian nation' cannot decide anything, because no one is in charge.

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For the foreseeable future, Canada will have to be functionally bimetric, as well as a bilingual, country.

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