POLS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Capitalism
3 Oct 2016
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Geography size/diversity/temperature: high energy costs 4 seasons. Economy resources/trade/ manufacturing/ services: overly reliant on certain type of resource industry, oil & gas, unrest in middle east effects oil prices and globalization, services: public services, manufacturing. Demography population/location/immigration: small population, most people live in same area (south, better climate, services, trade interests, lower birth rate, not everyone has children. Canadians are arguably obsessed over what it means to be. Particularly we need to define ourselves as distinct inside north america and different than the u. s. Definition: broad patterns of values and beliefs that support the political institutions of the country (p20) Political expectations of participation and forms of it. People are expected to vote and be aware. Values that are important and those that aren"t. Accepted parameters of individual and government political activity. Charter of value in quebec: can"t express your religion openly. Not group-think" but can argue that each polity has core values and beliefs.
