POL214Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: English Canada, Identity Politics, Official Multilingualism
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Cleavages: structure of the economy varies across the country, there is also the french-english cleavage, you manage the language cleavage, you don"t solve it. French-canadian nationality: quebec wing of the governing conservative party demanded that the bna act should assign to the provinces control over matters which had cultural connotations, major issue also included protestantism (english canada) vs catholicism (quebec) Territory: these lands belonged to the hudson"s bay company before 1867 and were transferred to canada once confederation was approved. Quebecers looking for job: once living in the us, they tended to lose their native language. Entry of manitoba into confederation 1870 metis leader riel sets up provisional. Events government on the red river, resisted influx of white settlers from ontario. Macdonald agreed to make manitoba bilingual though the population was tiny but riel had to flee to us after white settlers murdered. Province abolished existing separate school funding and in public system no provision was made for french teaching.
