POL214Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Settler Colonialism, Responsible Government, Westminster System
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Pol214 lecture 5 notes: ethnic and civic nationalism. Ethnic conception of nationhood: you are born there, so you are one of them. Civic conception: you live there, so you are one of them (don"t have to be born). Canada is civic; immigration plays a large role on this. Physical occupation and appropriation of political authority and someone else"s land. National policy: strategy to link the country form coast to coast. Settler colonialism aims to replace the culture or language of aboriginal peoples with the colonial society (british settlers infiltration aboriginal heritage). British people trading for fur with the aboriginals. Adoption of common law and influence on political institutions. Laborers were brought in to help build canada (i. e the railway) Sets out a political regime of a country. Outlines relationships between institutions in terms of who has power over whom. Who does what, who has power, and what can be done to limit that power.
