Editing Province of Canada (section)

===Liberal order===
In "The Liberal Order Framework: A Prospectus for a Reconnaissance of Canadian History" McKay argues that "the category 'Canada' should henceforth denote a historically specific project of rule, rather than either an essence we must defend or an empty homogeneous space we must possess. Canada-as-project can be analyzed as the implantation and expansion over a heterogeneous terrain of a certain politico-economic logic—to wit, liberalism."<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Mckay|first1=Ian|title=The Liberal Order Framework: A Prospectus for a Reconnaissance of Canadian History|journal=Canadian Historical Review|year=2000|volume=81|issue=4|pages=616–678|url=http://www.utpjournals.press/doi/abs/10.3138/chr.81.4.616|publisher=University of Toronto Press|doi=10.3138/chr.81.4.616|s2cid=162365787|access-date=13 December 2016}}</ref> The liberalism of which McKay writes is not that of a specific political party, but of certain practices of state building which prioritise property, first of all, and the individual.