POL312Y1 Lecture 2: POL312 LECTURE TWO
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Canada accepts more legal immigrants per capital in the world. Primacy of foreign policy forefront of public policy as a whole. Canadian relations with us: what if trump becomes president. Policy effects domestic election: why we ended up with third place party related to foreign policy on accepting 20,000 syrian refugees. Canadians have great expectations of their governments: protect refugees/migrants, advance sustainable development around the world . Fp takes up prime ministers time: pm is in new york for the un: 3-4 summits/bilateral. Relatively small penetrated country dependent on big. Practicing multilateralism via un- liberal internationalist pattern of cdn fp: complex neo-realist: principle power. Disproportionately canadian: real world is that populace is significantly less mono- Canadian: mainly english canadian, mainly males, settlers vs indigenous. Taking in of refugees but only if everyone else does. Rich country but tend to hoard wealth at home rather than give away. Lipset: difference between political culture and canada, and cnd v.
