POG 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Quebec Act, English Canada, Western Alienation In Canada

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Politics and Public Administration
• Course: POG 110
• Professor: Matthew Flisfeder

Document Summary

The social, cultural, and economic context of canadian politics. The social and economic settings of politics establish boundaries to political life. These boundaries include: problems a society faces and the resources available for coping with them nature and intensity of devotions within society distribution of valuable resources between different social interests. Bc they have organized themselves to press white society to pay attention. Bc social groups & unions organized to compel gov"t to introduce these programs. The structure of the state affects which inequalities get attention. Both canada and us are federations but canada does more to target funding to reduce regional inequality. Canada has always been a pluralist society > goes back to quebec act. Respect for diversity has joined equality and freedom as a core canadian value. Canada"s charter groups = europeans who immigrants who displaced aboriginals. French and british (french and english-speaking) catholic and protestant.