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| | Canadian nationalism |
 | | The Tories favoured economic independence and close political ties to the United Kingdom, while the Liberal Party of Canada first favoured free trade, than freer trade (reduced tariffs) with the U.S. and close political relations with the Americans. | | | Canadian customs and values (as well as heritage) are derived mainly from Britain, France, Ireland and the Aboriginal peoples indigenous to the area of North America that would become Canada. | | | Both rebellions failed, but it led to greater reforms in Canada and the creation of responsible government which eventually led to independence in 1867. |
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| | Comparative Politics Study Guide |
| | The Origins of Canadian Politics: A Comparative Approach (1986) | | | New Dimensions of Canadian Federalism: Canada in a Comparative Perspective (1987) | | | Government and Politics in Western Europe: Britain, France, Italy and Germany, 3rd. |
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http://www.vpl.vancouver.bc.ca/branches/LibrarySquare/his/StudyGuides/comparative_politics.html
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| | Dictionary of Canadian Biography |
| | Henceforth Laurier would have a seat in the inner circle of Canadian politics and be considered, moreover, the true successor to Dorion and the real leader of the Liberals in Lower Canada. He remained a minister only a year and a day, however. | | | To the imperialists and the foes of reciprocity, he was a traitor to Canada and the empire. | | | On the keynote of duality and under the distinguished chairmanship of Mowat, the convention brought forth a new program in which unrestricted reciprocity, watered down to satisfy Mowat and a number of other Liberals, was set in the context of developing the countrys natural resources and maintaining a customs tariff to generate revenue for Canada. |
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http://www.biographi.ca/EN/ShowBioPrintable.asp?BioId=41636
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| | Trade and Border Security as Political Issues in Canada by Howard Cody - Maine Policy Review - Margaret Chase Smith Center for Public Policy |
| | Canadians feared that Asian and other investors would locate their operations in the United States rather than Canada to secure the benefits of free trade in both directions. | | | Canadians considered this concession a perfectly reasonable quid pro quo for Americans' guaranteed access to Canada's energy resources and to its banking and investment services. | | | Cody argues that Canadians will not persuade Americans to distinguish between the two concerns and, consequently, that Canadians will eventually accept some sacrifice in national sovereignty in order to maintain the benefits of their current trade and investment relationship with the United States. |
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http://www.umaine.edu/mcsc/MPR/Vol12No1/cody.htm
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| | Dictionary of Canadian Biography |
| | Moreover, he shared Prices early ambivalence toward party politics, as an expression of independence, and this ambivalence ensured the ultimate exclusion of both as outsiders, embittered and unappreciated for their political efforts. | | | At the Reform Convention of 1859 McDougall not only became secretary to the Constitutional Reform Association, but he also revealed statesmanlike qualities by putting forward the compromise resolution that sustained Browns proposal for a federal union of Upper and Lower Canada as a solution to the provinces constitutional quandary. | | | The growing threat, in his view, was ultramontane interference from Lower Canada in the civil affairs of the united province, a fear that would increasingly distort his political perception. |
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http://www.biographi.ca/EN/ShowBioPrintable.asp?BioId=41023
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| | Copyright Reform: The Policy and the Politics |
| | While the U.S. rejected sweat of the brow as a test in the Feist decision, Canadian publishers worked on the assumption that Canadas thinking was more in keeping with that of the U.K. The compilation of unoriginal works requires intensive labour, skill in selection, collation and arrangement of data, as well as financial investment. | | | Publishers have until now felt confident that they had the protection of Canadian copyright in their databases and in the parts thereof. | | | Finally, Tthe Canadian Publishers Council recently submitted a paper on Internet Issues and Considerations of Liability. |
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http://www.pubcouncil.ca/databases0198.html
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| | Reciprocity with the United States of America: Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage |
| | Their position was strengthened by a court decision that Newfoundland could not refuse bait to Canadian fishermen, the only lever which the colony had at its disposal, and by the knowledge that in the last analysis, the British government would support Canada over the reciprocity issue. | | | The issue of "free trade" or reciprocity was first debated during the early 1850s, when it was proposed that Newfoundland should become party to a reciprocity treaty being negotiated between the British North American colonies and the U.S. The treaty was signed in 1854, and Newfoundland signed on the following year. | | | Newfoundland became party in 1873 to the next general agreement with the U.S., the Treaty of Washington (1871). |
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http://www.heritage.nf.ca/law/reciprocity.html
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| | Encyclopedia4U - Progressive Conservative Party of Canada - Encyclopedia Article |
| | While the party was historically a powerful force in Canadian federal politics (Canada's first prime minister, John A. MacDonald, was a Tory), today the party is a shell of its former self, holding only 14 of 301 federal seats. | | | The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada is a Canadian political party, active in federal politics and in several provinces. | | | First, economic issues dogged the party toward the end of Mulroney's term as prime minister: Canada suffered its worst post–Second World War recession, unemployment rose to the highest levels since the Great Depression, the federal government faced high and persistent deficits, and a much-hated new tax, the GST, was introduced. |
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http://www.encyclopedia4u.com/p/progressive-conservative-party-of-canada.html
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| | Seminar 99 - Canadas Officer Corps: New Times, New Ideas |
| | Canada’s senior, regular force officer corps has always been shaped by the attitudes citizens and political leaders hold towards national defence and the armed forces and by the traditional beliefs officers assume to be true and reasonable expressions of the world they live in and their place in Canadian society and politics. | | | Many politicians, like most Canadians in 1998, assume that Canada has no national interests that can be achieved through the use of Canadian military power, at least outside Canada. | | | Professor Ørvik, of course, was arguing for an appropriate defence budget to forestall any American response to defend themselves in Canada because Canadians could not or would not do the job. |
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http://www.cda-cdai.ca/seminars/1999/99bland.htm
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| | newsobserver.com WakePol - General Politics |
| | In all, an interesting argument coming from two bloggers who usually call for openness and accountability in local government, and who, judging from their intimate knowledge of City Hall, likely are involved in politics or planning during the day. | | | With the trash from the municipalities already on board, the county would have 85 percent of its goal -- more than enough to begin breaking ground, according to the solid waste manager. | | | Posted at 05:06 pm by Ryan Teague Beckwith in General Politics, County Budget, Education |
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http://blogs.newsobserver.com/wakepol/index.php?cat=24
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| | Graeme Mount, Professor of History |
| | "The Canadian Presbyterian Mission to Trinidad, 1868-1912," in Brian Douglas Tennyson (editor), Canada and the Commonwealth at the Caribbean (Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 1988), pp. | | | "Canadian Investment in Colombia: Some Examples (1919-1939) of Investment Co-operation Between Canadians and Americans," Norte/South: Canadian Journal of Latin American Studies (1976). | | | J.L. Granatstein and Norman Hillmer, For Better or For Worse: Canada and the United States to the 1990s (Toronto: Copp Clark, Pitman, 1991), in Canadian Defence Quarterly, XXI, 5 (Spring 1992), pp. |
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http://www.laurentian.ca/history/gsm.html
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| | Attaché - Vol. 1, No. 1 (Winter 98/99) |
| | French Canadians continued to believe that the best way to assist the Empire was to reduce its external liabilities, and therefore that the physical defence of Canada should be the focus. | | | While Dafoe cites reciprocity as "a desperate expedient by an ageing administration to stave off dissolution," Cook argues that it was, in reality, a clever plan to detract attention from the socially fragmenting naval debate and redirect it to what the Liberals considered a positive step for Canadian autonomy. | | | The casual commentary of several members of the United States government about the benefits of reciprocity as a step towards annexation were quickly exaggerated by the Canadian media, aiding the anti-reciprocity camp. |
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http://www.theattache.org/9901/article09.htm
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| | Commanding Heights : United States Trade Policy on PBS |
| | The approach to trade is liberal; reciprocity with Canada is agreed upon in 1910, but suspended in 1911 due to Canadian politics. | | | Interstate commerce within the U.S. requires rules as well: The Federal Trade Commission is set up in 1914. |
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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/commandingheights/lo/countries/us/us_trade.html
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| | Canadians say "No" to Politics as Usual |
| | The dire warnings of Prime Minister Mulroney and various bank executives that a No vote would lead to economic instability have proved false, as Canada's dollar has risen and interest rates have fallen since the referendum. | | | Populist politics and protest movements are a double edged sword: they can bring needed change in the face of recalcitrant governments, but they can also be sources of reactionary backlash or manipulation by the interests of wealth and power. | | | Mark Cameron is a graduate student in Political Science at the University of British Columbia, and youth representative to the Liberal Party of Canada national policy committee. |
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| | Ideology |
| | Growing almost precisely as the Progressive Conservative party entered its phase of extraordinary success and extraordinary failure was the Western-based party, The Reform Party of Canada. | | | The Canadian dollar is barely in the control of the Canadian government and unemployment is regularly at levels that threaten both government budgets and social insurance funding. | | | The years between the defeat of the Liberal party's proposed reciprocity (a kind of free trade) agreement with the USA in the election of 1911 and the 1970s may be seen, at least in part, as nation-building years. |
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| | \'93From Riel to Reform (And a Little Beyond): Politics in Western Canada.\'94 }{\plain \ul \tab American Review of Canadian Studies}{\plain 31 (2001): 623-638.\par }{\plain \par }{\plain Gibbins, Roger. | | | }{\plain \ul The International Politics of Quebec Secession; State Making and State Breaking in North America.}{\plain Westport: Praeger, 2001.\par }\pard \qj\fi-1680\sl0 \brdrb\brdrdot15\brdrcf0 {\plain \par }\pard \qj\fi-2400\li720\sl0 \brdrb\brdrdot15\brdrcf0 {\plain Mishler, William and Harold D. Clarke, \'93Political Participation in Canada.\'94In MichaelWhittington and Glenn Williams. | | | \'93Canada and the Multinational State.\'94 }{\plain \ul Canadian Journal of Political Science}{\plain 34 (2001): 683-713.\par }\pard \qj\fi-1680\sl0 \brdrb\brdrdot15\brdrcf0 {\plain \par }\pard \qj\fi-2400\li720\sl0 \brdrb\brdrdot15\brdrcf0 {\plain McRoberts, Kenneth, \'93Quebec: Province, Nation, or \'93Distinct Society\'94?\'94 In MichaelWhittington and Glenn Williams. |
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| | Grassroots Politicians: Party Activists in British Columbia. by David Mitchell |
| | The reason offered for the failure of the province's parties to converge towards the political centre is that they are constrained by the attitudes of their activists. | | | Grassroots Politicians is actually a series of studies based primarily on a survey of the opinions of delegates attending the provincial leadership conventions of the Social Credit, NDP, and Liberal parties in 1986 and 1987. | | | Grassroots Politics demonstrates that this image of highly charged, class-based politics needs to be seriously qualified when applied to the British Columbia electorate as a whole. |
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http://www.utpjournals.com/product/chr/744/politicians12.html
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| | Broadview Press: The Politics of Taxation in Canada |
| | The Politics of Taxation in Canada explains the factors that have shaped the evolution of Canadas tax system since the 1960s and the issues that are likely to challenge governments in coming years. | | | Political scientist Geoffrey Hale describes the major elements of Canadas tax system as parts of an economic constitution that affects the daily lives of Canadians as much as the political constitution that defines the powers and limits of governments and the rights of citizens. | | | It outlines the nature and objectives of Canadas tax system, the organizational and institutional structures that define and control it, and the political processes that enable politicians to manage policy changes subject to competing pressures from voters and organized interest groups. |
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http://www.broadviewpress.com/bvbooks.asp?BookID=263
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| | Greenwood Publishing Group I1 |
| | Appendices give directories of Canadian Studies Associations, Canadian Studies Centers and programs outside Canada, Canadian Studies Centers in Canada, and important journals and periodicals. | | | The partially annotated bibliography is organized into 14 topical chapters--focusing on the major themes involved in the study of Canadian politics. | | | These themes include such topics as the Canadian constitution and legal system, federalism, public policy, regional and local politics, English Canadian and French Canadian political culture, political parties and interest groups, executive and legislative institutions, the administrative process, foreign policy, defense politics, strategic studies, free trade, environmental issues, human rights, and international aid. |
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| | Political Parties and Elections in Canada (Federal) - Les élections et les partis politiques au Canada (Niveau fédéral) |
| | "...a group of women and men, more than 300 nation wide, who are deeply concerned about Canadian politics and we have formed a multi-partisan action committee devoted to the still-bold idea that more women must be elected to every level of government in Canada | | | Under subsection 424(4) of the Canada Elections Act, parties must submit these returns within six months after the end of each fiscal period. | | | "...it appears that Canada could afford its public health care system at lower levels of taxation by running the system more efficiently and by shifting resources away from other public services that are inefficient or of lower priority. |
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| | List of political parties in Canada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Socialist Party of Canada (in Manitoba) 1904-1922, 1932, 1945 | | | In contrast with the political party systems of many nations, Canadian parties at the federal level are often only loosely connected with parties at the provincial level, despite having similar names. | | | From approximately 1898 to 1905, political parties were active, however, legislative government was eliminated when the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan were created out of the heavily populated area of NWT. |
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| | These lectures ouline the Charter of Rights and Freedoms in Canada arguing that the Charter, on close inspection, reveals a very interesting picture of the model of Canada envisioned by its framers. | | | This lecture outlines some major arguments regarding what Canadian political culture is exactly and examines a number of explanations referring to various forces that have shaped its development including the fragment thesis, formative events, and political economy. | | | This lecture examines the increasing social pluralization of Canada and the growing politicitization of ethnicity. |
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| | PINR - Economic Brief: U.S.-Canada Softwood Lumber Dispute |
| | Canada receives US$7.5 billion from the trade, accounting for 2.4 percent of its total exports of US$316 billion, of which energy and auto parts have the greatest share. | | | Over the last ten years, Canada has claimed one-third of the U.S. softwood lumber market, with the exception of the period in 1995 and 1996, when there were no U.S. import restrictions and the share rose to 36 percent. | | | The wrangling between Ottawa and Washington over softwood lumber would just be a normal localized trade dispute were it not for the imbalance between the great salience that it has in Canadian politics and its negligible importance in U.S. politics. |
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http://www.pinr.com/report.php?ac=view_report&report_id=361&language_id=1
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| | all relevant items of Canadian subject matter published outside Canada before 1901. | | | Canada, the printed record: a bibliographic register with indexes to the microfiche series of the Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions, Z1365 C36 REF. | | | Diddy Hitchins, Political Science, 786-1582: INTL301 Canada: Intro Survey, INTL302 Canada: Contemporary Issues, INTL303 Canada: Selected Topics, PS312 Nation-State Case Studies, PS321 International Relations, PS413 Comparative Case Study, PS419 Studies in Comparative Politics, PS424 International Law and Organization. |
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| | The Depression in the U.S.--An Overview |
| | The great progress made in labor organization brought working people a growing sense of common interests, and labor's power increased not only in industry but also in politics. | | | The United States joined Canada in a Mutual Board of Defense, and aligned with the Latin American republics in extending collective protection to the nations in the Western Hemisphere. | | | Congress, confronted with the mounting crisis, voted immense sums for rearmament, and in September 1940 passed the first peacetime conscription bill ever enacted in the United States -- albeit by a margin of one vote in the House of Representatives. |
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http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/depression/overview.htm
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| | Democracy - free-definition |
| | Some critics of representative democracy argue that party politics mean that representatives will be forced to follow the party line on issues, rather than either the will of their conscience or constituents. | | | Liberal democracy is sometimes the de facto form of government, while other forms are technically the case; for example, Canada has a monarchy, but is in fact ruled by a democratically elected Parliament. | | | Democracy is related then to the idea of constitutional government, setting limits beyond which a current majority in government may not step. |
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http://www.free-definition.com/Democracy.html
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| | Amazon.ca: DVD: Broadcast News (Widescreen) |
| | The backdrop is the high-stakes world of network television news, and although the technology has changed since the mid 1980's when this was made, the politics and the cut-throat environment are still exactly the same. | | | The setting is the high-stakes world of network television news, and although the technology has changed since the mid 1980's when this was made, the politics and the cutthroat environment are still exactly the same. | | | Some of the characters were actually characatures of some of the ego-driven, compulsive people I have met in the business. |
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http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00000K3CS
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| | Encyclopedia: 2002 in Canada |
| | 2001 in Canada, other events of 2002, 2003 in Canada and the list of 'years in Canada'. | | | Canada wins gold for men's and women's hockey. | | | January 14 - Industry Minister and Liberal leadership hopeful Brian Tobin announces that he is leaving politics. |
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http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/2002-in-Canada
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| | Direct Democracy Canada, We Can Govern Canada Together |
| | We want to reconnect Canadians and especially the younger generations into the democratic process, to give them access to contribute to the governing of this country using the Internet and live town-hall meetings, to participate in taking important decision. | | | Direct Democracy is a form of democracy in which the people as a whole make direct decisions, rather than have those decisions made for them by politicians. | | | It is time for direct democracy in Canada. |
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| | Department of Political Science ..::.. University of Guelph |
| | This survey will include an examination of Canada’s political culture as well as the Constitution and the nation& political institutions, commonly referred to as ‘the machinery of government.’ We will also examine how Canadians do or do not participate in politics by studying political parties and elections, interest groups and the media. | | | A number of supplementary readings that may be helpful in researching your essay topic are available at the Reserve Desk of the library. | | | This course has been designed as a survey course to introduce students to Canadian politics. |
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http://www.uoguelph.ca/polisci/courseinfo/fall2004/pols2300s1.htm
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