Chapter 3 Flashcards
(20 cards)
Nationalist Loyalties: Loyalty
-commitment
-allegiance
-devotion
-fidelity
-faithfulness
•loyalties are dynamic
Nationalist Loyalties: Patriotism
- love of ones country or nation
- nationalist loyalties may, but rarely, demand extreme sacrifice
Nationalist Loyalties: Contending loyalties
- loyalties that compete
- may be easy or difficult to resolve
Affirming Nationalist Loyalties: First Nations
-Assembly of First Nations
•an association of the leaders of FN governments
•goal is to protect rights, treaty obligations, ceremonies and claims
Affirming Nationalist Loyalties
-taking action to declare a loyalty
•individually and collectively
Affirming Nationalist Loyalties: Inuit
South Baffin Place Names Project
- reclaiming traditional Inuit place names
- approximately 8000 names
Project Surname
- traditionally Inuit had 1 name
- missionary’s had a hard time pronouncing, so names were replaced with Christian names
- 1930s government assigned personal # to all Inuit
- 1968-70 project surname started
- head of house selected surname
- quite often a relatives given name
Affirming Nationalist Loyalties: pluralistic society
Cultural Pluralism
-cultural groups encouraged to affirm, honour, & promote unique cultural identity in a diverse society
Reasonable Accommodation
- a sincere attempt must be made to reconcile religious & cultural practices with the laws of the land
Newfoundland Regimen
-July 1, 1916- Battle of the Somme
•Newfoundland regimen (778) advanced at Beaumont-Hamel
•68 answered roll call the following day(324 killed, 386 wounded)
-Newfoundland celebrates Memorial Day and Canada day on the same day
-compatible nationalist loyalty
Yugoslavia
- violent breakup into different nations
- incompatible nationalist Loyalties
Sovereignists
-people who support the idea of Quebec becoming an independent nation-state
FLQ
-Sovereignists
Quebec Liberation Front-1970’s
•terrorist group
-October Crisis (war measures act implemented)
Parti Quebecois
-Sovereignists
•Rene Levesque
•provincial political party elected in 1976
•bill 101 (Charter of the French Language)
•Referendums on Sovereignty
-1980- 40% yes 60% no
-1995- 49.4% yes 50.6% no
Bloc Québécois
- Sovereignists
- federal political party
- 1993 election won 56 seats and became the official opposition
Federalists
-people who believe Quebec should remain a Canadian province
-Pierre Elliot Trudeau
•Official Languages Act
-promotes and protects both official languages
Reconciliation
- coming to terms with the past
- mending a broken relationship
- resolving differences
- peaceful coexistence
Canadian Aboriginals: Assimilation
-Canadian gov’t policy of assimilation(historically)
-Based on paternalism
•limits person/groups liberty or autonomy for that person or groups own good
Canadian Aboriginals: Charter of Rights and Freedoms
-recognition of treaty rights enshrined in the Charter
Canadian Aboriginals: Oka Crisis
- Golf course on disputed land
- Mohawks(Kanesatake Reserve) set up road block
- police called in(officer killed)
- army called in
- feds bought land and transferred ownership to Mohawks
Canadian Aboriginals: Royal Commission on Aboriginal People’s
-Brian Mulroney
-People to People, Nation to Nation
•condemned bad treatment of aboriginal peoples
•urged Canadians to view FNMI as nations with the right to govern themselves in partnership with Canada
Canadian Aboriginals: Statement of Reconciliation
-expressed regret for Canada’s history of suppressing aboriginal culture & values & weakening the identity of aboriginal peoples
