POL 2101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Michael Bliss, Maritime Rights Movement, Central Canada

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

Document Summary

Regionalism: brooks: a political identity based on a shared sense of place , it has to be rutted in some from of territory, factors that contribute to regionalism, proximity and similarity. You can construct everything: ideas: regions aresocially constructed , discontent/alienation. The feeling must be modeled, blame ontario. Different regional conceptions of canada: five or six regions, atlantic provinces/quebec/ontario/prairies/bc/north, eastern canada/quebec/ontario/west/north, core-periphery, core as dominating central realm that exercises political and economic control over a periphery that is isolated politically, dependent and underprivileged. Economic basis of regionalism: different factors endowments, difference in resources. Created difference in interest: difference in access to markets. Ontario did well after ww2 because of detriot. Canada is so depended on us (the recession: economic policy reinforced economic disparities, access to markets and feelings of injustice (justified or not, importance of the national policy. After confederation we could have had free trade with us.