They also argued that opposing initiatives from the rest of Canada would destabilize Confederation. As 1 July 1867 neared, many Upper Canadians acknowledged their province’s potential power but doubted its ability to dominate national policy debates. This was not, however, the only way Upper Canadians interpreted their colony’s role within Confederation. After this realization, Reformers increasingly believed that they could best serve their province and country by using their potential parliamentary preponderance to quash policy demands from the rest of Canada that did not align with their national vision. It reveals that federalism in Upper Canada remained weak until Reformers recognized that their province could exercise preponderant influence in a federation where representation in the national legislature was based upon population. This dissertation explores how the Upper Canadian and Ontarian belief that their province could preponderate within Confederation impacted the dominion of Canada’s political development. It then queers Brown by considering both aesthetic choices and depicted life episodes, with a focus on his rejection of romantic labor, and fostering of alternative kinship arrangements. Part II begins by analyzing comics as a genre teeming with queerness.

Part I surveys the changing construction of sex trade clients from ordinary to deviant men, and reviews scholarship that reads sex work as queer activity. This article uses Paying For It to situate Brown, and sex trade clients in general, as queer subjects in their rejection of relational normativity and engagement with criminalized consensual sexuality. In this 2011 Canadian memoir, Brown chronicles his journey from being a monogamous boyfriend to becoming a client of multiple sex workers. Chester Brown’s 'Paying For It: A Comic-Strip Memoir About Being a John' marks an autobiographical intervention into the literature. Regardless of one’s position, almost all of the discourse is authored by non-clients (or those who do not identify as clients). Some construct clients as exploitative and inherently deviant, while others destigmatize them as complex and varied. Sex trade clients have become a contested identity in academia and mainstream media.

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