POG 100 Lecture 5: week 5.docx

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Politics and Public Administration
• Course: POG 100
• Professor: Joerg Wittenbrinck

Document Summary

New france: comes from our colonial fragments, our political culture is unchanged, formative events, large scale developments seven year war, on going conflict between the english and the french, the history of peaceful settlement, metis civilization, interaction with indigenous people. Democratic values & american contrast: democracy is a foundation of canadian political culture, popular sovereignty central to democracy; people give legitimacy to the state, political equality , political freedom the freedom to think however you choose; undo influence; the freedom to associate with whoever; freedom to assemble (core to the idea of democracy, majority and minority rights laws should favor the majority of citizens, we are collectivist as opposed to individualist (be emphasis on community and supporting each other, canadians are particularists and american"s are universalists, canadians embrace the multi cultural background, deference to authority as opposed to skepticism of the state, caution as opposed to risk takers.