POL214Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Great Depression, Metro International, Winnipeg General Strike
30 Jan 2018
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The constitutional pillars: responsible government, federalism, charter of rights. Three enduring fault lines: canadian-american relations, english - french divide, regionalism. Sources of regional diversity: geography, provincial representation in parliament, provinces mobilize people politically, people express themselves through their provincial governments, history, settlement, economic structures ethnicity, federalism. Metropolis - hinterland frame: core vs. periphery, heartland vs. hinterland, developed vs. Investment/finance capital: population concentration, high tech and manufacturing, higher incomes, wealth, and education, lower unemployment, many corporate and media headquarters, higher real estate values, better social services, national cultural institutions. Meant that the maritimes would be dominated by the english and the english language. The conquest (1760) - the british defeat the french. Riel and cpr (1870"s) (and for all other. Quiet revolution (1960) - went from religious to secular. War of 1812 - greater feeling that we were not just british but also british. The prairies britain (where british immigrants has a large political impact)
