POL214Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Liberal Democracy, William Lyon Mackenzie King
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Pol214 lecture 3 political culture/constitutional. Our canadian liberal culture has accepted big government to a greater degree than american liberal culture. Some differences of our liberal culture in comparison to the u. s are : canada has a socialist party ndp. Canada was not founded on an ethos of limited gov"t unlike the u. s. The direct involvement by government in providing public services is purely part of canadian culture. Many of canada"s big state building projects were introduced by. Conservative gov"t: canadian pacific railway, ontario hydro, cbc news station, medicare. Canada does not have a strong sense of national identity. Canada"s population is majorly in central region: when canada was first formed the population was mainly in. Original confederating provinces were: ontario/quebec, n. b and n. s. In 1867 federalism was accepted as the most practical form of government to bring together the existing colonies of b. n. a. Canada combines british parliamentary system with american style federalism.
