introduced (1980) In order to combat the rising gas prices and renewed oil crisis, the Liberal government created the National Energy Program or NEP in 1980. This program was aimed towards protecting Canadians against the rising oil prices, making Canada able to produce its own oil and reducing Canada’s consumption of oil. Funding was provided to Canadian petroleum companies in order for them to be able to drill for oil in sites that looked promising. These sites included off the coast of…
There are many extraordinary Canadians that made Canada the great country it is today. As the 15th Prime Minister of Canada, Pierre Trudeau was one of those people. Pierre Trudeau’s beliefs in a strong, united Canada, his contributions in creating a culturally diverse society, created his legacy of creating a new sense of Canadian nationalism, which is what makes him the greatest Canadian. Pierre Trudeau always believed in a Canada that is strong and united, and this was a tricky thing to do,…
20th century Canada has been heavily influenced by French-English relations and its negative impact on Canadian identity. The Conscription Crisis of WWI, the October Crisis, and the Meech Lake Accord, have been the most influential events in 20th century Canada. Canadian identity, when defined by its progression of French-English Relations, changed negatively during the 1920s to the 1930s under the Conscription Crisis of WWI. For instance, when Prime Minister Borden introduced conscription in…
This purpose of this paper is to critically review the theory and practice of SocioDynamic Counselling: an applied constructivist approach for professionals in the helping field. The paper is divided into two sections. Firstly, identifying the founder to this approach then further expanding over the theoretical and philosophical key concepts that support SocioDynamic counselling. The second half of the paper explores and analyses strengths and outcome limitations of this helping approach.…
In this paper, I will discuss the issue of entrenching a charter by how it violates the principles of democracy. I would like to state that sections one and thirty-three are not sufficient enough to overcome this objection. More specifically, the discussion of my argument will mainly focus on how section one guarantees those rights; however there are reasonable limits in which we citizens cannot overpass. I will also focus my argument on how section thirty-three allows governments and…
inherent to all human beings. These rights are defined in the United Nations Human Rights declaration ; these rights are followed because as a nation Canada has pledged to follow these rights. The Canadian Tribute to Human Rights is dedicated to promoting awareness of fundamental human rights without espousing any particular political position. In Canada, it provides the first symbolic focus on human rights and calls…
My redesign of the Canadian Coat of Arms focuses on what makes Canada the beautiful land of freedom that is it. Firstly, I put the Canadian flag as the biggest flag on my design and on top of it the flags of the four territories of Canada. Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick are the flags overtop of the Canadian flag. The idea of this flag is to show that Canada is multicultural and diverse so the best way I felt I could show that was by putting the world overtop of the Canadian flag.…
Topic: This essay will focus on Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau otherwise known as Pierre Elliott Trudeau the 15th Prime Minister of Canada and the controversial issue of, if he met the challenges of his era or if he made things worse for Canada. Pierre Trudeau was born in Montreal, Quebec, on October 18, 1919 to a wealthy bilingual family. Trudeau graduated from university to enter law school in Montreal. As a student he was conscripted to join the Canadian army, he was against…
Canada is one of the four countries in the world that have maintained a federal structure for more than 100 years (the rest are The United States of America, Switzerland and Australia). Like other true federations, Canada has a constitution that gives the legislative body of each of its federated states the exclusive power to adopt and enforce laws in its territory on a large number of subjects. Among the subjects that the Constitution attributes exclusively to "provincial" legislatures are…
including their dying culture. Quebec’s advocacy of political independence from Canada, i.e. nationalism, has been significantly influential in shaping Canadian politics in the past and present. Nationalism has not only heavily influenced culture and politics in Quebec but more importantly has influenced politics in the Canadian nation as a whole. It is safe to say that Nationalism has led to various changes in the constitution, some of which are beneficial and some causing controversial debate.…