ACS 100 Study Guide - Fall 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - World Trade Organization, Wkdn Am, Whaling
12 Oct 2018
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MIDTERM EXAM
STUDY GUIDE
Fall 2018
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ACS 100 – Ideas that Shaped the World
Sept 7 2017 (Week 1)
*Anthropology: “applied philosophy” (on exam)
The Construction of a Narrative
Dialogically
• Part of the construct of a nation is the construction of a narrative
• A story that a nation tells
• In Canada, the US is part of this story: an inevitable result of a complex and fraught geographical,
social, economic and political relationship.
• Narratives are always shifting
o National narratives are constantly changing. They will shift depending on the preoccupations of
society at the time.
*The North Star in “Discovering Canada” reminds readers that Canada is not the US
“Fire and Ice” (by Adams)
• Adams argues for a general trend in indicating cultural divergence between Americans and Canadians
Factors of Divergence
• Religion: Up until 1950s, Canadians polled as more conventionally religious… now the opposite
• Relations to systems of patriarchal authority. “Father knows best” more valued in US
• Violence: Americans perceive violence to be more normal at higher rates than do Canadians
• Risk taking: Commitment to the “American Dream”: Believed to be more likely to take on risky
behaviour
• Friendliness/openness: Silent cowboy, type has emerged as an American archetype.
• Consumption: Canadian are more skeptical of advertising: humour, satire and self-deprecation have
developed as a large part of Canadian ad campaigns
Sept 13 2017 (Week 2)
Key Terms in writing, exams, midterms
1. Sovereign
2. Labor
3. NAFTA
4. Security
5. Trade liberalization-Neo-liberalism
“Enemy Creep”
• Rise of the Corporate Security Complex (2003)
• 9/11 shifted how countries enacted “security” measures
• “Draconian domestic laws” aimed at fighting terrorism reverberated throughout US and abroad
• Mass system of registration and surveillance established
o Less rights, freedoms and civil liberties
o Are enemies if the US enemies of Canada?
“Harmonization” Across Borders
• Barlow says that this occurs “so that Canada can take its place in the global surveillance system” (92)
o Collection and sharing od biographical and biometric data
o Refugee, visa and immigration procedures are harmonized
o Tracking, storing of intelligence
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• Barlow says that profiling necessitated by Homeland Security goes against Canada values
• After 9/11, talks of establishing a North American Border, a “Smart Border”
Threats to Canadian Sovereignty?
*Midterm ques
• C-23 (value of understanding it): Helps us understand/challenge concepts of Canadian sovereignty
• Since the time free trade between countries in North America was presented in 1988, debates of national
sovereignty… more important
• 1989: Free Trade Agreement
• 1994: NAFTA (North America Free Trade Agreement)
What is Sovereignty?
• No consensus on definition
• “The capacity to determine conduct within the territory of a polity without external legal constraint”
• The ability to decide
• Power, the sovereign makes the final decision
NAFTA
• No tax on imported goods between Canada, Mexica, US… cheaper goods
• World’s largest trade zone
• CONS:
• Barriers on harmful products (high fructose corn syrup from US)
• NAFTA has fueled pressures to migrate
• Less tariffs (taxes), allowed for subsidies to be granted to American farmers
o US agricultural goods exported @ lower price, therefore more competition to Mexican farmers
reliant on exports to the US
o Big US firm entered Mexican market
Neoliberal Economic Ideas
1. Privatisation
2. Deregulation
3. Liberalization
Dangers
• Workplace accidents
• Pesticide exposure
• Reporting of illness + healthcare availability
Types of Migrant Worker
“Not legible”: cannot be read
Tier 1: High skilled. Professional
Tier 2: Low skilled, seasonal (agricultural)
Leamington
• SAWP (Canadian Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program) signed in 1966 with Jamaica
o Mexico entered in 1974
o Employers required to provide housing and meals, registration with provincial health + workers
comp plans
• Feat of being sent back home (if illegal)
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