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Institutionalized regionalism

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Amending formula now: requires provincial equality 
-FMC: provincial equality 
-Senate 4 regional 
-Supreme Court 
Quebec
Ontario
West
Atlantic
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Underlying regionalism

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socio-demographic differences
-economic differences 
-history/govt activities/ formative events
-provincial assertiveness
attitudinal distinctiveness
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Atlantic political culture

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tradition
conservative
dependent
alienation
parochial

Forgotten about - left behind by the impulsive rush towards materialism in the rest of Canada - Bellamy

Only through govt favours that there is going to be economic progress

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Ontario political culture

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  • Canadian nationalist
  • progressive and conservative
  • complacent/satisfied
  • north distinct
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Western Political Culture

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  • Western Alienation
  • Populist
  • Change oriented
  • socialist
  • rural myth
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Western Alienation

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Growing sense of frustration that federal policies and actions are being made w/o respect to constitutional divisions of authority, or even respected to the principle of cooperation

the feds have tried to work their way into areas of clear provincial responsibility

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attitudinal basis of regionalism

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regionalism within the political system reflects regional divisions within the underlying society has become less tenable over time

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North

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3 territories: Nunavut, NWT, Yukon

  • limited constitutional status
  • limited senate representation
  • no Supreme Court or amendment rule
  • distinctiveness
    • distance and isolation
    • rural
    • aboriginal share of pop
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Continentalism

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Relations with U.S

  • important factor in confederation
  • ongoing issue of integration
  • Robert Thompson “the U.S. is our best friend whether we like it or not
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Relations with U.S: Economic

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Economic

  • trade
  • investment & ownership
  • financing
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U.S Relations: cultural

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proximity to border
US television
US popular culture

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U.S Relations: Defense and Security

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Defence from U.S
Security alliances
Border and immigration issues

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Canada’s political environment: contemporary challenges

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Aboriginal
Multiculturalism
Gender

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Issues relating to indigenous peoples

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Roots of over 40,000 years 
-4-5% of Canadian pop
-First Nations, Inuit, Metis 
only 60% on reserves 
Indian Act: Nations had their own traditional governing structures and protocols
  • elections held every 2 years
  • The enforced European election process injected confusion and undermined and destroyed traditions

-Some maintained their hereditary chief tradition so have both hereditary and elected chiefs

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Indian reserve

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Exclusive use of an Indian band
Band members possess the right to live on reserve lands and band administrative and political structures are frequently located there

Reserve lands are not strictly “owned” by bands but are held in trust for bands by the crown

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Pan Canadian Indigenous Organizations

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Assembly of First nations (AFN)

Congress of Aboriginal peoples

Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (ITK)

Metis National Council

Native women’s association of Canada (NWAC)

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Social and Economic Conditions

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  • Lower income
  • Poverty rates increased
  • Dependency on govt increased
  • Education & grad rates decreased
  • health below average
  • incarceration rates above average
  • Suicide increased
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S.25

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Guarantee of certain rights and freedoms shall not be constituted so as to abrogate or derogate from any aboriginal

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S.35

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Rights of the Aboriginal peoples of Canada, the existing aboriginal and treaty rights of the Aboriginal peoples of Canada and hereby recognized and affirmed

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1897 Meech Lake accord

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Failure to deal with Aboriginal issues a reason for failure

was a series of proposed amendments to the Constitution of Canada

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Charlotte town Accord

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was a package of proposed amendments to the Constitution of Canada, proposed by the Canadian federal and provincial governments in 1992

framework of self govt

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Aboriginal self govt

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an aboriginal right to self govt would have been enshrined in the Canadian constitution

The accord=3rd order of govt analogous to the federal govt and the provinces

POGG - Peace, order, good, govt

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Ongoing Issues

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Land claims

  • pipelines through indigenous territory
  • traditional rights (hunting, fishing, forestry)
  • Indigenous justice
  • Self-govt
  • political process
    • govt negotiations
    • court action
    • direct action: Civil disobedience
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Truth and reconciliation commission 2015: 6 yr project looking into legacy of residential schools

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2008 apology for residential schools from PM

  • goal was assimilation
  • Interviews w/ more than 6500 witnesses
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recommendations RCAP 1996: issues official admission of wrongs
the fed govt had done that w/ residential schools
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recommendations RCAP 1996: : Recognize inherent right of Aboriginal self govt
nothing in the constitution that recognizes the right of the aboriginal
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recommendations RCAP 1996: : dual citizenship for ind peoples
not just citizens | citizen plus- of Canada but also of an indigenous group
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recommendations RCAP 1996:: advisory aboriginal parliament
elected by aboriginal people, and provide advice
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recommendations RCAP 1996:: aboriginal participation in all constitutional talks
veto on changes | no proceed any further with trying to amend our constitution unless aboriginal people were included in discussions
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recommendations RCAP 1996: : more $ for aboriginal programs
more $
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most aboriginal reside in
Ontario
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Multi-culturalism
non-dualistic of a country -conclusion: we are a bilingual country but the notion that we are bilingual country was rejected distinguish us from the U.S (melting pot)
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foreign born
20%
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visible minorities
22%
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political underrepresentation
non europeans underrepresented in legislatures and govt Historical restrictions - voting - immigration
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constitutional recognition
1982 constitution act s.15 - every ind has equal rights, protection, benefits - subject to notwithstanding clause s. 27 - preservation and enhancement of the multicultural heritage of Canadians courts - not much willingness to use this as a mechanism to enforce multiculturalism and prevent discrimination
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gender
- formal political equality - political success - higher the fewer: the rep of women declines as you go up the hierarchy - gender gaps
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Formal political equality
= right to vote = right to run for office = protection s.28 notwithstanding - the rights and freedoms referred to in ti are guaranteed equally to male and female persons
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political success
women more common in NDP and Bloc and Liberal real - More common in hopeless ridings - more common in minor parties
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Structural barriers
Money occupation dominated by women domestic, part time 60% in clerical
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Psychological barriers
social learning sexual division of labor in household sexism
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women in legislatures
Highest in Quebec | Lowest in PEI
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women are more
Progressive
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political culture
broad pattern of values and attitudes that ind hold toward political objects
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dimensions of political culture
orientations towards govt structures and processes - legitimacy - ideology - trust - efficacy
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Source of Canadian pol culture
christianity dominant - Protestantism with strong Catholicism as well - large protestant - united church - largest protestant in the US - baptist
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settlement patterns/fragment theory
cultural baggage of immigrants -settlers who arrived brought fragments of their culture with them, and those fragments have made impact on the political culture
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Formative events
Major political events that have transformed how you think about politics
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nature of economy
idea that a capitalist economy produces a liberal culture (ind and freedom = driving factor)
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Geography
large country. has helped to develop regional sector
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Canadian political culture
``` consensual -violence negative -FLQ democratic liberal -TORYISM, AND SOCIALISM -freedom of the ind, fear of the state spectator cynical ```
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Toryism:
based on a British version of traditionalism and conservatism which upholds the supremacy of social order

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