POL214Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: I Am Canadian, Blubber, English Canada
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See the schedule on blackboard for the topic to be discussed. In canada, there is a long tradition of discussing our political culturein relation to that of the. In the western world, no other country obsesses about how its national identity is different from its next door neighbour as much as we do. I"m not a lumberjack, or a fur trader and i don"t live in an igloo or eat blubber, or own a dogsled and i don"t know jimmy, sally or suzy from canada, although i"m certain they"re really, really nice. I have a prime minister, not a president. I can proudly sew my country"s flag on my backpack. And that the beaver is a truly proud and noble animal. And it is pronouced "zed" not "zee", "zed"! Still, it"s worth examining for clues about what makes us canadianor, what we think makes us distinctive as canadians.
