Political Science 2230E Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: National Energy Program, Pierre Trudeau, Western Alienation In Canada
12 Dec 2017
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The different prairie provinces are very different from each other. Canada, this raised prices which angered the farmers in the prairies because the farmers have nothing to do with manufacturing or industrialization. The nep was seen as major intrusion in a provincial territory, and alberta lost 50 billion dollars. The nep was scarped when mulroney took office: political discontent: the senate is supposed to represent regionally representation but it fails to do so, cultural discontent: there is a sense of cultural alienation of westerners, stereotypes of. Progressive party: national party that ran nationally, established to show farmer discontent, Calling for lower tariffs and wanted to see the elimination of the. Wanted to weaken the power of political parties. Support for the progressive party went into decline. Social credit party and ccf (cooperative commonwealth federation) were both populist parties. Social credit won at least 2/3 of seats in alberta, ccf did well in manitoba and saskatchewan.
