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State

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Territorial boundaries

institutions that possess public authority

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Governments

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Must be part of the cabinet
Only a member of cabinet has the authority to decide where money can be spent

“govt back benchers” - members of a provincial legislature assembly who is not a party leader

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Legislatures

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People who are appointed to the senate

Bicameralism: 
Lower House (elected) 
Senate (appointed until 75 yrs old)
- Senate doesn't have the power to prevent legislations

Trudeau made a change - committee makes recommendations

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Courts

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Limits on what parliament can do, limits based on our constitution

  • govt cant pass anything that violates the constitution
  • Determined by the SCC
  • Supreme Court (Appointed, 9 spots) until 75 years old
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Police and Armed Forces

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Ensuring law and order

Doing what the gov’t tells them to do

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Monopoly on legitimate use of power

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Only state sanctioned violence is appropriate or justified

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Declining Participation

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IRPP Study: 
believe govt doesn't care
elected will soon loose touch
broken promises 
money buys influence
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Demos

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People

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Kratien

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To rule

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Athenian Model

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Political freedom
popular input
equality: no one had extra votes
Majority rule: What the majority wants will automatically pass

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Concerns about Democracy

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Technical difficulties
issue complexity (gay rights)
Citizen capacity (Ability and time) 
Citizen interest 
Tyranny of Majority
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Liberal: Fear of State

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Tyranny of the Majority

You don’t want the state to have full power over your life

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Liberal: Primacy of individual

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Group rights vs ind rights, Primary = individual

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Liberal: Freedom of individual

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values and rights that cannot be intruded on or restricted by the state

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Liberal: Equality of opportunity

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Everyone should have a basic opportunity, guaranteed level of education or opportunity to participate

should not be limiting

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Liberal: Competition

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Free market

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Liberal democracy

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Limited Government
Representative Government
Majority Rule

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Limited government

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Checks on state

  • freedom of expression
  • freedom of association
  • Tolerance of opposition (limit on what the govt can do)
  • Voting guarantees (political rights)
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Representative Government

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People do not perform govt roles directly

elected by universal vote

Recurring elections

Procedural Fairness

  • votes counted fairly
  • restrictions on how much money can be spent
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Referendum or Plebiscite

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Common in municipal politics

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Initiative

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Citizens do not have force to create a referendum

common in the U.S

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Recall

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Elect people to office, level of accountability if they want to stay in office, run again

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What happens when you do not like the elected?

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Sign a petition (6 months to acquire the signatures)

force a bi-election, can only be tried once

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Representation: Agency: Trustee

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Representative doing what is best for his or her Constituency

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Representation: Agency: Delegate
Overwhelming majority Canadians prefer, elect them as their representative, try to do whatever you want me to do
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Representation: Agency: Party
Elected to the legislature, and the way that I vote and act is fully consistent with that party takes
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Responsible government: Government
Drawn from legislature: Don't get to be a part of the govt if you are not part of the legislature Accountable to legislature: The Right of the govt to remain in office is dependent on the votes of the legislature
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Pressures towards Union: Political restlessness
Widen horizons
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Pressures towards Union: British Desire
Wanted to unify, tired of paying our bills) - Cost of British govt of defending Canada - British preference for wider union - Colonial desire to give mother country what it wants - Wanted to improve relationship with Americans
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Pressures towards Union: Economic Decline/hope
Cancellation of reciprocity treaty | allowed for free trade between the two countries, the Americans cancelled
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Pressures toward union: Pressures toward union
American threat - Security threat - victorious union Army
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BNA (British North American Society)
Sympathetic to confederacy - anything that weakens the US is good for the British - Breaking up the US into a couple pieces would improve - Relations troubled (Passports, fear of the US)
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Political Instability
Union of Canada East & West not working (Ontario, and Quebec) - Not able to form lasting conflict (govt's were rising and falling) - English and French conflict (seemed to inform every political debate) - Lord Durham's solution - Anglo immigration - Equal Representation of smaller Ontario - English minority in Quebec combined w/Ontario to rule - French and English nation at war with each other and wanted to recommend steps for Canada to get away with that
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Internal Canadian Problems
Behaviour of French speaking elite frustrated Durham Plan - United on all issues related to language - Support anglo groups most sympathetic
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Demographic changes
- Ontario grew larger than Quebec - Equal representation no longer seemed fair - Rep by pop (Based on pop size, Quebec pointed out that no one cared when Quebec is the more numerous group)
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Grand Coalition: Mandate
Solve Canadian problem by negotiating wider union with Maritimes - Quebec rouges not in coalition - weaker group in Quebec - Goal is to create a wider Canadian state
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Charlottetown conference
- Intended to discuss maritime union - request to attend and start negotiations - Agree to what would become of the state of Canada (only in 4 days)
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Quebec Conference
- 17 days negotiation - pervasive sense of nationalism - Desperate for agreement - could not convince NFL and PEI - Agreement was between Ontario, Quebec, NS, NB, - Risk for Maritime/ Atlantic representatives
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Confederation Debates: Federal System
Essentially non-negotiable = federal system or nothing - bottom line for Quebec and Maritimes - Reluctantly agreed to by MacDonald Railway construction
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Confederation Debates: Senate
More debate than other issues | - Core of agreement (equal representation of the regions)
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Confederation Debates: House of commons
Rep by pop
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Confederation Debates: Financial Arrangements
- Feds take over debts of the existing colonies possessed | - Fed govt would provide annual grants based on pop
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Confederation Achieved
``` NFL Rejects PEI Rejects (Financial arrangements not good enough, settlement of Land holding issues, patronizing attitude) ```
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Confederation Debate Canada: Pro
-Safety from American Threat -Solution to ungovernable Canadian situation -economic advantages Quebec members who supported it stressed the protection of French Language and culture by creation of provincial govt, that will be all powerful in these matters
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Confederation Debate Canada: Opposition
Dorion and Rouges - Federal govt dominant, insufficient protection of French Language Dunkin - govt misleading the debate - Senate a sham "pretty nonsensical" - Cabinet dominance inevitable - Local govt not sufficiently funded

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