1. Canadian Society and Identity PLO Society and Identity
Keep the Americans out, the French in, and make the First Nations disappear.
So do we have anything that is Canadian?

2. P 166 Protecting CDN Culture
1939 National Film Board
1957 Canada Council
1952 CBC T.V.
1968 CRTC (CDN Radio-television Telecommunications Commission)
We don’t want your culture, but we will take your money:
1. Oil %, %
2. Manufacturing over 50%
Don't worry kids, Captain Canada will save you!
What exactly is it we’re afraid of?

3. Meanwhile, Les Canadiens…
P 191
Duplessis and the Union Nationale (Nationalists) run Quebec like the Mafia
1960 The Quiet Revolution - ‘Maitres Chez nous’, but also Separatism and the FLQ
1965 a CDN Flag!?
1969, on advice of ‘Bi and Bi commission,’ Official Languages Act
Oct The October Crisis and The War Measures Act
1976 PQ and Bill 101
Quebec separation Referendums:
--> % vote no, %

4. Meanwhile, we’ve got First Nations…
1876 Indian Act
-Assimilation, reserves,
-P ’s despite War,
Aboriginals still not persons: residential
schools, banning of ceremonies
like the potlatch,cut-off lands
- P right to vote in federal
elections
-1969 White paper vs. Red Paper
-->calls for Self-Government
-1990 Oka and the ‘Indian Summer’
-1998 Aboriginal Title defined (hence,
Land Claims recognized)
-1999 Nunavut - largest treaty ever
Oka Crisis

5. But you know I AM CANADIAN!
See ‘Protecting CDN culture’
P 174
1958 Diefenbaker
‘un-hyphenated Canadianism’
Bill of Rights

6. But you know I AM CANADIAN!P
1965 Pearson
Canadian Flag
1966 Pearson
Canada Pension Plan & Medicare

7. But you know I AM CANADIAN!
P 177
1968 Trudeau
Tudeaumania and a ‘just society’
P official multiculturalism policy
P Trudeau Patriates Constitution w/o Quebec. It includes:
the Charter of Right and Freedoms
An amending formula (7/10 provinces w. 50% of Canada’s population)
The notwithstanding clause
P 201 Note: 1987 Trudeau also comes out of retirement to state
Mulroney’s Meech Lake Accord to recognize Quebec as a
distinct society will create ‘two solitudes.’
Note: If Quebec is a distinct society, why not First Nations?

8. But you know I AM CANADIAN!
Don’t forget:
David Suzuki and Terry Fox and Hockey!
Regionalism
Western Alienation (National Energy Policy) and the Bloc Quebecois.

9. Society and Identity
Canada tried to form a single identity through First Nation and
Canadien assimilation xxx. Women were also forced to the sidelines. But Canada truly became a nation when we accepted that we are our own diverse, and not American xxx, nation and that tolerance and compassion are our greatest attributes xxx.
Note: Can you think of an example where you see xxx?