Across the Aisle

David E. Smith is adjunct faculty in the Department of Politics and Public Administration and a member of the Yeates School of Graduate Studies at Ryerson University.

• PREFACEPART ONE: INTRODUCTIONChapter One: Opposition: ‘Somebody Has To Do It’PART TWO: PARLIAMENTARY OPPOSITIONChapter Two: From Coalition to Coalition, 1867–1920Chapter Three: The Liberal Ascendancy, 1921–1956Chapter Four: Minorities and Majorities, 1957–1992Chapter Five: The Mill of Opposition, 1993–2011PART THREE: CHALLENGES FOR PARLIAMENTARY OPPOSITIONChapter Six: Opposition, More or LessChapter Seven: Opposition in the FederationChapter Eight: Whither Parliamentary Opposition?PART FOUR: CONCLUSIONChapter Nine: The Problem of Parliamentary Opposition TodayNOTESBIBLIOGRAPHY

‘Smith, a leading scholar of the Canadian Parliament, has written an outstanding book on the theory and practice of parliamentary opposition in Canada… It will be of great interest to scholars of Canadian politics, and also to scholars of parliamentary institutions searching in-depth, reliable accounts of Canada’s parliamentary opposition.’ - R. Koop (Choice Magazine; vol 51:07:14) ‘David E. Smith does an excellent job documenting changes and related developments in the concept of both parliamentary and public opposition since confederation, and provides a thoughtful analysis of the many and varied reasons behind those changes.’ - Martha Hall Findlay (Literary Review of Canada vol 22:03:2014) "David E. Smith has produced an elegantly-written, tightly argued and timely scholarly book on the role of the opposition in our Canadian parliamentary democracy...This book will help inform the growing debate on how parliamentarians, including the opposition, can be brought back into the centre of the Canadian political system as our founders intended." - The 2014 Canada Prize in the Social Sciences Jury “One of the best and most important recent books in Canadian politics is Across the Aisle: Opposition in Canadian Politics, by David E. Smith. It is a groundbreaking exploration of the role and evolution of a crucial part of parliamentary governance which, surprisingly, has been seriously understudied in the discipline. … The book will no doubt contribute to new research and prescriptions for change.”- Emmett MacFarlane, Assistant Professor of political science, University of Waterloo (University Affairs, December 3, 2014) ‘In Across the Aisle, David Smith has done an admirable job of delving into a previously unexplored facet of Canadian politics.’- Adam Coombs (Histoire sociale / Social History vol 48:97:2015)