Political Science 2230E Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Atlantic Canada, National Energy Program, Cabinet Collective Responsibility

• School: Western University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: Political Science 2230E
• Professor: Cameron Anderson

Document Summary

Major questions: what is regionalism, regional sub communities, the idea that regional differences can be the source of political mobilization c. Different economies, regional and political beliefs: many scholars believe that they can treat, economic discontent i. the west has always questioned its place in the national economy. 2. the cost of shipping goods over the railways in 1881, the government gave cr rail the ability to have a monopoly, allowing them to build a railway across canada. It was more expensive to ship manufactured goods, then agricultural goods from the west. Therefore making it hard for the west to industrialize: nep (national energy program, 1980, opec, organization of the petroleum exporting countries, opec forced the rise of oil prices in the 1970"s, the. West was benefiting, while the east"s industrialized areas were stagnant: alberta at the time, wanted to capitalize as the natural resources were under their jurisdiction,