POLS 1400 Lecture Notes - Middle Power, Advantageous, Extraterritoriality
8 Dec 2013
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Alberta was enraged at the 1980 national energy program, and western alienation affected the whole western region of canada. The atlantic ground fish industry collapsed in the 1990s and the softwood lumber dispute with the u. s almost crippled the forest industry. Regionalism obviously animates a great deal of canadian political activity. The canadian political system is characterized by regionalism, no consensus exists on exactly what those regions are. In discussing the question of regionalism, the 1979 task force on canadian unity said: Regional communities require an institutional framework to become viable units which can express themselves and organize their collective life in an effective manner. Thus, provinces & territories are the basic building blocks of canadian society: linked closely to federalism. The creation of provinces and territories had two primary effects of regional demands. If a region was identified with a political unit, that unit could become a persuasive transmitter of regional demands to ottawa.
