POL214Y1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Collectivism, Big Government, Party System
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Buzzwords: question period: how is our political culture different from the americans. In the us, the president is both the partisan head of government and the non partisan head of state. In canada, the queen/ gg are heads of state whilst pm is the head of. 17th and 18th century brought with them values liberalism of equality: settlers migrated from europe where tory values were very influential; so the settlers brought with them a mix of both. Liberal and conservative ideas: loyalists; formed canada via a conscious rejection of. American liberalism: according to the ft: canada is a two fragment society (language, because of the presence of quebec, new france was formed based on feudalist political ideas of. Catholic and royalist france (feudalism, demarcated social classes, and emphasis on collective good over the individual: the plains of abraham: this conquest severed new france and. Loyalists disliked american mass style democracy: fet; asserts that individual experiences upon arrival in north.
