Unsettling Settlers Society: the fractous politics of a settler society: canada, Ch.4

I found it interesting that to this day Quebec hasn’t signed the Canadian Constitutions. It wanted more provincial autonomy and power then what the Federal Government was proposing. I was under the impression that all providence either: all providences had signed the constitution and acknowledged the nation, or had their own providential constitution that reinforced that providence’s identity and values.

In the colonization of Canada, the mindset was British. The new nation took on the British identity, in turn leaving out the aboriginal people as well as the French. The Charelottetown Accord was proposed to help address the rejection on the aboriginal people in the colonization period. This Accord had a “Canada Clause” which expressed the fundamental Canadian values, which included the aboriginals and distinct societies. Thus, creating a 3rd government within the borders of Canada, this allowed aboriginals’ to governor themselves. This Accord was voted down by Canada.

Basically, Canada has a fragmented political culture due to the lack of national unity. Canada’s many races, immigrants, aboriginals and native cultures have distorted the national identity, or lack there of.