Toward a Baroque Governance in Twenty-first Century Canada

Our natural mode is therefore not compromisebut ‘irony’ – the inescapable responseto the presence and pressures of opposites in tension.Irony is the key to our identity.Malcolm Ross (1954) Canada must meet the test of living with three fundamental challenges of twenty-first century society: complexity, new forms of collaboration, and citizen engagement. The new information and communication technologies, and the greater connectedness they have generated, constitute only one of the fa...