Political Science 2230E Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: National Energy Program, World Oil Market Chronology From 2003, Central Canada
7 Mar 2017
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Regional differences serve as a source of political mobilisation. Sub-communities can frame political issues in their regional issues. Political demands begin to be made in the name of that community. Each province has very different histories that tends to explain things such as their political orientation today. (e. g. lots of. American immigrants in alberta, which can explain their neo-liberalism: economic discontent, the national economy was constructed in a way that serves central canada. To this day, westerners don"t believe that they are being treated equally. They believe they don"t get their fair share of what they bring to the canadian economy: example of national policy of 1879 (tariffs). Tariffs placed on manufactured goods coming into canada (e. g. us tractors). Raised the costs of goods to consumers, which was problematic in the west because their economy was based on agriculture, not manufacturing. This was because in 1881 the federal government entered a contract with the canadian pacific railway (cpr).
