scholarly journals Federal-Provincial Relations and Conservatism in the Canadian West

Federalism-E ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-75
Author(s):  
Connor Molineaux
Keyword(s):  
Political Culture ◽  
Federal Government ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Recent Decade ◽  
Western Canada ◽  
Prominent Feature ◽  
Conservative Ideology ◽  
Conservative Policy ◽  
Intergovernmental Conflict ◽  
Canadian Political Culture

Regionalism has been a prominent feature of Western Canadian political culture even prior to Alberta and Saskatchewan joining confederation in 1905. One manifestation of this regionalism is through intergovernmental conflict, particularly jurisdictional disputes between the provincial and federal governments. These disputes have generally seen provincial governments of various ideological leanings cooperate, and yet decentralization–or expansion of provincial jurisdiction–is a position that has largely been advanced by conservatives in recent decade.1Is there an ideological connection between expansion of provincial jurisdiction and conservatism? This essay contends that the conservative ideology particular to Western Canada was uniquely influenced by the dynamic of federal-provincial relations in Canada because of particular features of the region’s brand of conservatism. This essay will demonstrate that ongoing disputes between western provinces–Alberta in particular–and the federal government, particularly over natural resource issues, have reinforced a dynamic of regionalism within Western Canadian conservatism, leading it to become the perennial feature of conservative policy, federally and provincially, that it is today.[...]

THE GENESIS OF CONSERVATIVE IDEOLOGY, DEVELOPMENT TRENDS AND PROSPECTS IN THE POLITICAL REFORM OF MODERN COUNTRIES (ON THE EXAMPLE OF RUSSIA AND FRANCE)

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 38-43
Author(s):  
MARIETA EPREMYAN ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Political Reform ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Political ◽  
Development Trends ◽  
Conservative Ideology ◽  
The World ◽  
Christian Conservatism ◽  
The Future ◽  
Conservative Policy ◽  
Depth Interviews

The article examines the epistemological roots of conservative ideology, development trends and further prospects in political reform not only in modern Russia, but also in other countries. The author focuses on the “world” and Russian conservatism. In the course of the study, the author illustrates what opportunities and limitations a conservative ideology can have in political reform not only in modern Russia, but also in the world. In conclusion, it is concluded that the prospect of a conservative trend in the world is wide enough. To avoid immigration and to control the development of technology in society, it is necessary to adhere to a conservative policy. Conservatism is a consolidating ideology. It is no coincidence that the author cites as an example the understanding of conservative ideology by the French due to the fact that Russia has its own vision of the ideology of conservatism. If we say that conservatism seeks to preserve something and respects tradition, we must bear in mind that traditions in different societies, which form some kind of moral imperatives, cannot be a single phenomenon due to different historical destinies and differing religious views. Considered from the point of view of religion, Muslim and Christian conservatism will be somewhat confrontational on some issues. The purpose of the work was to consider issues related to the role, evolution and prospects of conservative ideology in the political reform of modern countries. The author focuses on Russia and France. To achieve this goal, the method of in-depth interviews with experts on how they understand conservatism was chosen. Already today, conservatism is quite diverse. It is quite possible that in the future it will transform even more and acquire new reflections.

Regional geochemical study of the Slave Point carbonates, Western Canada

1969 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 247-268 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. M. Cameron
Keyword(s):  
Discriminant Function ◽  
Element Distribution ◽  
Western Canada ◽  
Prominent Feature ◽  
Reef Facies ◽  
Geochemical Study ◽  
Facies Change ◽  
Devonian Age ◽  
Multivariate Discriminant ◽  
Significant Chemical

A regional geochemical study of the Slave Point Formation within an area of 35 000 square miles (~90 000 km2) in the subsurface of western Canada was made to relate chemical variation to facies change. Core and cuttings samples were obtained from 90 wells drilled for petroleum. The Slave Point Formation is a relatively uniform and pure calcitic limestone of Middle Devonian age. A reef facies, dolomitized in places, is developed along the margin of the carbonate shelf with a shale basin. These dolomites produce natural gas from several fields.R-mode factor analysis methods have been used to help interpret the element distribution. There are slight, but significant, chemical differences between limestones occurring close to dolomites and gas discoveries and limestones distant from these features. The principal differences are a smaller content of magnesium and strontium held in solid solution in the calcites and less clay minerals and pyrite in limestones occurring close to gas discoveries. These differences, which are related to dissimilar conditions during deposition and diagenesis, are used to form a multivariate discriminant function separating the two groups of limestone. This discriminant function is used to classify the different limestone sections. Sphalerite (with galena and quartz), a prominent feature of the unit, occurs principally in the dolomites along the margin of the shale basin.

Separation calls will grow in western Canada

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Federal Government ◽  
Western Canada ◽  
Federal Election ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Climate Policies

Significance As attention turns again to non-COVID-19 issues, discussion of ‘Wexit’ -- the possible separation of Alberta and Saskatchewan from Canada -- will resurge. Separation calls grew after the October 2019 federal election reinforced a sense that the federal government is deaf to both provinces’ concerns and interests. Impacts Saskatchewan and Alberta will create new provincial institutions to lessen their federal reliance. Eastern and central voters will keep voting for pro-climate policies, alienating western provinces. Given their different economies and politics, Wexit parties will struggle to make progress in British Columbia and Manitoba. If Alberta and Saskatchewan’s economies worsen, the Wexit narrative of disenfranchisement could strengthen.

From Constitutionalism to Legalism: Trial by Jury, Responsible Government, and the Rule of Law in the Canadian Political Culture

1989 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Romney
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Political Culture ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Common Law ◽  
The State ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Responsible Government ◽  
Constitutional Thought ◽  
Canadian Political Culture

The influence on the Canadian political culture of two conflicting tendencies in common-law constitutional thought,constitutionalismandlegalism, merits attention. By constitutionalism, I mean a particular response to the apprehended infringement of civil rights and liberties by the state: an appeal to standards of state conduct that are supposedly sanctified by long usage, implied contract, or both. By legalism, I mean the justification of alleged infringements by invoking the lawfulness of the authority by which such actions are taken. These definitions deviate from common usage, but they serve to represent a dichotomy within common-law constitutional thought that has been crucial to the development of the English political culture and of cultures derived from the English.

Highways, heroes, and secular martyrs: the symbolics of power and sacrifice

2011 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
TINA MANAGHAN
Keyword(s):  
Political Culture ◽  
Political Community ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Canadian Culture ◽  
Canadian Political Culture

AbstractThis article examines the subtle and not so subtle shifts in Canadian political culture that have taken place in, through and alongside the so-called ‘return’ of the Canadian warrior. It begins from the contention that while the racialised dimensions of the post 9/11 Canadian security state have been well analysed elsewhere, the gendered dimensions have not been fully explored. This article explores the re-emergence of a sacrificial imaginary in Canadian culture through an examination of seemingly irreconcilable accounts that have emerged of the Canadian security state – one that reads ‘Canada’ through the story of the torture and repatriation of Canadian citizen, Maher Arar, and one that tells the story of ‘Canada at War’ through the warrior's return. It examines both in terms of the tensions and instabilities they reveal in the Western liberal imaginary and in terms of the ways in which they collectively operate to redefine the aesthetic borders of the Canadian political community. The article argues that the sacralisation of violence which has refound this political community has been enabled by a remasculinised aesthetic that delimits the ‘progressive liberalism’ which animated the Canada of Old – ostensibly in order to protect it.

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