POLB50Y3 Lecture : 1 Introduction.doc
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To study politics is first and foremost to study conflict. Compounded crisis threatening the very existence of canada. Donald v. smiley has identified three crises that threaten the very existence of. Canada:i: english-french conflict with francophones being swept up by quebec nationalism and, for some, separatism. Section 133, use of english and french language in courts, allowed. Riel rebellions, conscription crises, bilingualism, flq crisis 1970, sovereignty, referendums 1980-1995 seperation of quebec, parti. Quebecois- predominace in french language, bloc quebecois: conflict between the various regions of canada, especially relations between the centre or core and the periphery . Transcontinental railway, national policy, staples theory, western alienation, protest parties, reform party: relations with the united states and the threat of american domination of. United empire loyalists, foreign ownership, cultural nationalism, external affairs (viet nam, cuba, communist china, iraq, afghanistan). The existence of these continuing crises has been termed a compounded crisis with three dimensions.
