CAST 2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 50: North American Free Trade Agreement, Athabasca Oil Sands, Quebec Sovereignty Movement

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Exists around athabasca tar sands (oil sands). This is one of the largest oil deposits in the world. It"s hard to access because it"s so north and its mixed with dirt and sand. They"re really struggling with transporting because it"s so north, and the railways that were created to help have exploded in several areas. 24% of canadians speak french, most of them live in quebec. About 80% of quebec is french speaking. At one point, a bunch of unmarried women in france were rounded up and sent to new france to be married to the single men to build up the country. Francophone, anglophone, allophone french speaker, english speaker, neither english nor french speaker. Sovereignty association they want more sovereignty, but still want to be connected to canada so they don"t have to create their own military or currency. Quebec traditional values from the 1600s to the early 1900s, quebecers.

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