POG 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: English Canada, Pension, Linguistic Rights
19 Jun 2018
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Lecture 1- Introduction
Annotated bibliography: 5% (due Feb 26)
Research paper: 25% (due March 19 or 26)
Tutorials: 12%
Midterm: 29% (Feb 26)
Final exam: 29%
Visions of Canada
- Competing views of what Canada is and should be
- Different divisions in society
- POG110 talks about people, POG210 talks about policy
- Liberals focus on middle class, gender, indigenous
- Trade-off, if your focusing on one group, you aren’t focusing on another- if u focus on
lower class, you’re not focused on upper class
- July 1st 1867- 4 provinces joined together (ON, Quebec, Nova Scotia, ___?)
- Regional cleavage
- Quebec- historically focused on religion (catholic), now focused on language
- Indigenous- dissatisfied with place in confederation for a long time
- Multicultural minorities- relatively new, different immigration patterns, adopted
multiculturalism
- These cleavages are important- provinces having different interests is important because
of the different understandings of what Canada is, should be
- No single vision of Canada
Vision #1
- Provinces entered confederation together as equal, and entered a federation, no one
province is superior than another- regionalism cleavage
- Federal government means power is divided
- Implications:
- Decentralization- power is spread out through provinces, so provinces make own
decisions instead of one main government holding power
- Opposed to special status for Quebec- Quebec wants decentralization but also special
rights no other province has
- Provinces should have power in making federal law
- Triple e senate- equal, elect senate, should be effective (equal, elected, effective)
- Divisions strongest supporters are people out west- think government is focused too
much on Quebec specifically and Canada should be equal, have equal say in law making
View #2
- Units that make up Canada are not provinces but 2 people- French Canada and English
Canada
- Quebec cleavage
- 2 versions- focused on language, focus on territories
- territorial home of French founding people is Quebec
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Document Summary
Research paper: 25% (due march 19 or 26) Competing views of what canada is and should be. Liberals focus on middle class, gender, indigenous. Trade-off, if your focusing on one group, you aren"t focusing on another- if u focus on. Pog110 talks about people, pog210 talks about policy lower class, you"re not focused on upper class. July 1st 1867- 4 provinces joined together (on, quebec, nova scotia, ___?) Quebec- historically focused on religion (catholic), now focused on language. Multicultural minorities- relatively new, different immigration patterns, adopted. Indigenous- dissatisfied with place in confederation for a long time multiculturalism. These cleavages are important- provinces having different interests is important because of the different understandings of what canada is, should be. Provinces entered confederation together as equal, and entered a federation, no one province is superior than another- regionalism cleavage. Decentralization- power is spread out through provinces, so provinces make own decisions instead of one main government holding power.
