POL214Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: National Energy Program, Pierre Trudeau, Western Alienation In Canada
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Winter term: there are no tutorials this week, there are tutorials next week. Back to regional resistance to old party hegemony. In a democracy, the party system is an important institution for managing and containing popular grievances. In canada, those grievances are often regionally-based: but the federal parties" ability at managing western alienation within the context of a political system weighted in favour of central canada is at best mixed. Energy in oliver mowat"s canada: historically, energy has been one of the grievances between western canada and central canada, as we have seen, in canadian federalism strong premiers confront strong prime ministers. Western premiers articulate the west"s grievances against central canada: this includes: western premiers mad at justin"s dad, pm pierre trudeau! Manitoba: the nep was introduced soon after the liberals won the february 1980 election, this election is often cited as a good example of the problem canadian federalism has in managing regional grievances:
