POL214Y1 Lecture : January 11 Lec Note
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P o l 2 1 4 - j a n u a r y 1 1 2 0 1 1. The social and economic setting: three fault lines. 3 axes around which international politics revolve: riff/cleavage between english and french speaking communities. English french fault line goes back to 1759. Look @ cleavage in canadian politics we look @ issues of different language groups, groups that have different religious orientation, cultural recognition. Initially in 1759, french were a majority. Since then when the english became the majority, the french have been very protective of their culture. The talk in qc is now about sovereignty, not about subjugation. 1980, 1995 referendums in qc about qc become more sovereign and more independent from cda. These 2 referendums attempted on the battlefield of the 20th century to do what woolf"s muskets had accomplished on the plains of abraham in 1759: canadian american relations.
