Political Science 2230E Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Neoliberalism, The Maritimes, National Energy Program
1 Mar 2017
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Regional differences serves as a source of political motivation. Political demands starts to be made in the regional community. Alberta large influx of us immigrants in this area, explains why albertans have right leaning views. Saskatchewan and manitoba more receptive to left wing views. There are 3 roots of prairies discontent economic, political, cultural: 1. Economic national economy constructed in a way that served the interest of. Westerners don"t believe they are treated fairly or getting a fair share/fair return of the profits being made by the federal economy. Freight rates were discriminatory in the west. In 1881, federal government entered a contract with cpr: given a monopoly with ottawa to develop a trans-canada railway, ended up making higher rates in the west compared to. Cost of shipping wheat 1883 cpr rate was 3x more in the west than in the east. 1880s prairie farmers using half their income paying cpr. West footing the bill for central canada.
