Patrice Dutil

Patrice Dutil is a professor of politics and public administration at Ryerson University, Toronto. He is the author of Prime Ministerial Power in Canada: Its Origins under Macdonald, Laurier, and Borden ; The Service State: Rhetoric, Reality, and Promise (with Cosmo Howard, John Langford, and Jeffrey Roy); Embattled Nation: Canada's Wartime Election of 1917 (with David MacKenzie); and Canada, 1911: The Decisive Election That Shaped the Country ( also with MacKenzie), among other works. He has...See more

Patrice Dutil is a professor of politics and public administration at Ryerson University, Toronto. He is the author of Prime Ministerial Power in Canada: Its Origins under Macdonald, Laurier, and Borden ; The Service State: Rhetoric, Reality, and Promise (with Cosmo Howard, John Langford, and Jeffrey Roy); Embattled Nation: Canada's Wartime Election of 1917 (with David MacKenzie); and Canada, 1911: The Decisive Election That Shaped the Country ( also with MacKenzie), among other works. He has also edited several collections and was the founding editor of the Literary Review of Canada (1991-96) and the President of the Champlain Society (2010-17). See less