POLI 1P93 Lecture 1: LEC NOTES 1
19 Mar 2016
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Global economic order ( where is canada situated and what is its role) How canadians govern themselves (check reading in reference) Federal/provincial elections provide main exposure to political parties. Parties play central role in governance and democracy. Role at elections overshadows other roles as democratic enters: develop policies , nominate candidates, build national unity , manama multicultural/ competing interests. Party membership on decline since 1980s, only 13% of canadians claim to belong: often report being dissatis ed with in uence in party. Real choice or coke vs. pepsi : is there really a big difference between the parties. In the last 100 years, a party opposition only infrequently holding power. 1993 reduced to 2 seats- fractured the party(reform, alliance, conservatives): When the rst woman became prime minister ( setting back woman feminism in. Canada due to the failures of the party) Formed as a merger of the fractured parties from the 1990s(progressive.
