POLS 2150 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: National Energy Program, The Maritimes, Crow Rate
31 Jan 2015
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Theoretical considerations: one way of treating regionalism in canada would be to equate regions with provinces and territories, regionalism can be defined in 4 manners: Geographic approach: regions would be defined in terms of their similarity of physical features and separated from other regions by prominent topographical barriers, allows for change over time, geography leads to common political, social and cultural characteristics. Abstract: fluid social creations that may change over time, imagined communities, people feel that they have much in common with others. Dependency theory: relationship between different spatial entities, some dependent on others, metropolitan hinterland thesis focuses on the relations between the political and economic power of the center and the underdeveloped periphery. Canada is the second largest country in the world in terms of size. The distance between canadians is immensely complicated by divisions caused by physical barriers: transportation & communications systems.
