POLS 2300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Maurice Duplessis, Saint Lawrence River, Lower Canada
20 May 2016
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Trudeau- a nation is no more and no less than the entire population of a sovereign state (1965) Emerson- a nation is a body of people who feel that they are a nation (1960) 1979 task force- a community of persons bound together by a sense of solidarity and wishing to perpetuate this solidarity through political means . 1867 confederation of united provinces of canada (ontario and quebec, joined in. Dissatisfaction right from the start in nb and ns. 45% of people in canada live in the red portions of the map (on slide) City vs. country people- different issues important to these different groups of people. We live very close to the usa and are politics are influenced by them. Sleeping next to an elephant - aka the us. Political gravity shaped by our orbiting the us. New brunswick only bilingual province of canada.
