POL312Y1 Lecture Notes - Brad Delson, Bilateralism, One-Man Operation
Document Summary
Each of the historical themes will be recurring in the course. 2 aspects: geographic situation in n. america and proximity to us. Geography: sharing a continent with us and mexico from canadian view we are closer to us. Language: french were competing with britain for the continent we have preserved and maintained this linguistic minority in quebec. Us has too, although it has replaced it with spanish speaking community. So we share a language english, and also existence of minority language. Culture: we have very important values and theories of liberalism with us. We share ethnic ground that used to be more similar than today predominantly white. Ethnicity: both mostly from uk and french, but us and canada are different in a sense that us has more african american. Canadian independence: canada and us do not see the kinds of behavior that led to violent conflict between each other. North american geography = essential fact of canadian history.
