POL 222 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Canadian Identity
13 May 2016
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English method relied on the rule of a small majority. If the issue is about the british dominance over francophone minorities, then why do we only speak of quebec and not the acadians in new brunswick and pei. The welfare state is what connects economics to a polity. Make its people work hard: give them health care, education, etc, germany 1800s: the welfare state a system of imperialism. The state became an employer of last resort created a middle class. Parallel to what created the francophone middle class. The british were used to a different kind of political/economic organization. The british could control the economy, but they couldn"t assimilate the french there were too many. They were cut off from france, and cut off from the francophone elite. In the 1800s, the british weren"t particularly in favour of multiculturalism.
