POLS 2300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Western Alienation In Canada, Quebec Nationalism, Political Freedom
7 Dec 2016
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Political ideas may take the form of values and beliefs, personality traits, worldviews, and ideologies. Ideologies and world views serve as maps that make sense of social and political reality. Democracy is the foundation of the state. Political culture consists of the dominant values and expectations in the system. Canada"s adoption of the british parliamentary system. Distinctions between canada and u. s. values are threatened. Distinctive collections of values, beliefs, attitudes, identities and orientations held by smaller groups within society. A longstanding sentiment of grievance and exclusion experienced by westerners. Westerners have sometimes seen their region as canada"s internal colony". But the west is not a homogeneous region. Western alienation is linked to insistence on the equality of all provinces and to a populist style of. The political culture of alberta, for example, is quite different from that of saskatchewan or manitoba. politics. Regional divisions have long been among the most prominent features of canada"s political landscape.
