Le pluralisme politique de l’Ouest canadien

Le pluralisme politique de l’Ouest canadien

Regionalism has played a tremendous part in defining Canadian identity in a federation still divided along regional lines. Since the 1870s, Western Canada has often felt left aside from the politically powerful provinces of Ontario and Quebec: this federal lack of interest goes hand in hand with unf...

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Autor principal: Cartigny, Florence
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Idioma:Français
Publicat: Anglophonia Caliban/Sigma 2024
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West Canada
Reform Party
Cooperative Commonwealth Federation
social credit
separatism
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spelling openedition-oai:revues.org:acs_1849 https://doi.org/10.4000/caliban.1849 urn:doi:10.4000/caliban.1849 fr https://journals.openedition.org/acs/1849 2024-01-30T01:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/vphp https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Le pluralisme politique de l’Ouest canadien Anglophonia Caliban/Sigma Presses universitaires du Midi info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2802-2777 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/1278-3331 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/acs Cartigny, Florence West Canada Reform Party Cooperative Commonwealth Federation social credit separatism Regionalism has played a tremendous part in defining Canadian identity in a federation still divided along regional lines. Since the 1870s, Western Canada has often felt left aside from the politically powerful provinces of Ontario and Quebec: this federal lack of interest goes hand in hand with unfair representative power both in the Senate and in the House of Commons.As a result, this politically and economically divergent region has created several political parties. For example, the CCF originated in Western Canada in the 1930s with strong socialist leanings. During the Great Depression, William Aberhart founded the Social Credit which had a long-term influence in Alberta. As for the Reform Party, whose only leader was Preston Manning, it remained a federal party whose original aim was to promote Western issues in Ottawa. Finally, separatist parties came into being with the involvement of Douglas Christie at the head of the Western Block Party.Undoubtedly, Westerners have shown how dynamic involved they could be to see their diversity represented provincially and federally. And yet, political heterogeneity is not always reflected: indeed, it seems that Western Canada is heading from a two-party system to a one-party system where political organizations have different labels or names rather than deep ideological divergences
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topic West Canada
Reform Party
Cooperative Commonwealth Federation
social credit
separatism
spellingShingle West Canada
Reform Party
Cooperative Commonwealth Federation
social credit
separatism
Cartigny, Florence
Le pluralisme politique de l’Ouest canadien
description Regionalism has played a tremendous part in defining Canadian identity in a federation still divided along regional lines. Since the 1870s, Western Canada has often felt left aside from the politically powerful provinces of Ontario and Quebec: this federal lack of interest goes hand in hand with unfair representative power both in the Senate and in the House of Commons.As a result, this politically and economically divergent region has created several political parties. For example, the CCF originated in Western Canada in the 1930s with strong socialist leanings. During the Great Depression, William Aberhart founded the Social Credit which had a long-term influence in Alberta. As for the Reform Party, whose only leader was Preston Manning, it remained a federal party whose original aim was to promote Western issues in Ottawa. Finally, separatist parties came into being with the involvement of Douglas Christie at the head of the Western Block Party.Undoubtedly, Westerners have shown how dynamic involved they could be to see their diversity represented provincially and federally. And yet, political heterogeneity is not always reflected: indeed, it seems that Western Canada is heading from a two-party system to a one-party system where political organizations have different labels or names rather than deep ideological divergences
author Cartigny, Florence
author_facet Cartigny, Florence
author_sort Cartigny, Florence
title Le pluralisme politique de l’Ouest canadien
title_short Le pluralisme politique de l’Ouest canadien
title_full Le pluralisme politique de l’Ouest canadien
title_fullStr Le pluralisme politique de l’Ouest canadien
title_full_unstemmed Le pluralisme politique de l’Ouest canadien
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