POL 2101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Maritime Rights Movement, National Energy Program, Michael Bliss
27 Jan 2014
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Regionalism: brooks: a political identity based on a shared sense of place. , factors that contribute to regionalism. The idea of regions" is socially constructed. Core as the dominating central realm that exercises political and economic control over a periphery that is isolated politically, dependent and underprivileged: new and old canada (michael bliss)/have and have nots. Old canada quebec and atlantic provinces. New canada - ontario and the west provinces. Economic basis of regionalism: different factor endowments. Difference in resources creates different interests. Difference in access to markets: economic policy reinforced economic disparities, access to markers and feelings of injustice (justified or not) Political basis of regionalism: domination of political institutions by central canada. Atlantic regionalism: maritime rights movement in the 1920s . Economic demands largely ignored: but contrary to the west, politically powerful historically, key contemporary issue. Equalization and economic development transfer of resources. Demography becoming an old population: read the article by finbow.
