POLB50Y3 Lecture Notes - Eastern Canada, October Crisis, Transcontinental Railroad
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Vocabulary used: coercion, elite accommodation, embedded state, globalization, government, power, private sector, public sector. The political system: private sector vs. public sector; inputs (demands and support); authorities, output, feedback, environment. Five approaches can help interpret different aspects of the canadian political system: Compounded crisis threatens the very existence of canada. Donald v. smiley identified three crises that threaten the very existence of. English-french conflict with francophones being swept up by quebec nationalism and, for some, separatism. Riel rebellions, conscription crises, bilingualism, flq crisis, sovereignty, referendums, parti quebecois, bloc quebecois. Conflict between the various regions of canada, especially relations between the centre or core and the periphery . Transcontinental railway, national policy, staples theory, western alienation, protest parties, reform party. Relations with the united states and the threat of american domination of. United empire loyalists, foreign ownership, cultural nationalism, external affairs (viet nam, cuba, communist china, iraq, afghanistan).