POL 2101 Lecture Notes - Problematization

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL 2101
• Professor: Luc Turgeon

Document Summary

Canada is a large colonial country that like many other colonial countries has a diverse and unique heritage. This unique heritage is centre to the concept of canada as a multicultural or multinational state. However, the true determination of whether or not canada is a multinational state is much more complex than just regarding canadian heritage. Constitutional identity of a multinational society by struggles over recognition; and the royal. Commission on aboriginal peoples paper called looking forward, looking back, i believe that. However because canada is a multinational state there is significant pressures on the state by specific historical minority groups that claim rights to a unique nation status within canada. These claims to distinct nation status carry significant weight within canadian politics as the distinct nation state often correlates with a decentralized government, self-governing practices and constitutional recognition of identity.