POLI 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Red Tory, Civic Nationalism, Social Democracy
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Know: neo-conservative, political culture, neo-liberal, red tory, political economy, social democracy, political science, Ways of thinking can overlap with each other. Mulcair and trudeau often competing with each other. Mulcair used to be part of the quebec provincial liberal party. Some argue he is taking more of a reform liberal point of view. Different ideas as to what defines canada and who belongs in canada. Canada doesn"t have the national identity normally associated with european who speaks fluent french will be shunned. Until ww2, canada seen as british and white. Then country marriage between the whites and aboriginals occurred. Canada has always been multicultural, but wasn"t recognized until the late. First non-aboriginal majority to settle in bc was chinese, (1858 gold rush) Even more chinese laborers brought in to work on the railway. Many of the canadian soldiers in ww2 had different backgrounds. For the first time differentiated british identity with canadian identity.
