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Maria Maxwell
Nationalism is striving for a country. This has both positives and negatives and
can help or hinder how we view our country. Our national identity is collection of the
people and places we interact with and the perspective we take from these. The next
Source one is an image of two Royal Canadian Mounted Police Officers (RCMP).
One of the officers is wearing a turban and one is wearing the traditional campaign hat.
different ethnic background, but are working in the same profession, supporting the
same country. The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, adapted in 1982,
ensures that all citizens are given equal rights and freedoms, allowing both genders to
be part of the RCMP. Reasonable accommodation ensures that all people are given
equal opportunities, while still respecting ethnic and religious background. As a nation,
we need to be accepting of all people and respect that all people were created equal
and can work together. In our society today, many people are unaccepting of other
campaign was put up around the campus. These posters do not reflect how Canada
views other ethnicities. People who choose to have racist views, often have a lack of
understanding for that ethnicity.This does not reflect Canadian views. Canada is seen
as a multicultural country that is accepting of all ethnic backgrounds. This source is pro-
nationalism.
“Remember Oka Crisis 1990” are shown above the soldiers. The ideological perspective
going head to head, having the Oka people fighting for their traditional land, and the
Canadian military fighting against them. The Oka rebels felt alienated during this time
and fought to have their land protected. From this event, the Royal Commission of
Aboriginal Peoples was formed, giving the Canadian government more information on
what was going on in First Nation’s society. The report urged Canadians to view First
partnership with Canada. They are political and cultural groups with values and lifeways
expressing regret for Canada’s history of suppressing First Nations culture. The bias of
Source three is a poster image, depicting images of the oil and tar sands and
companies and organizations that support environmental causes. The picture inside the
maple leaf shows open excavation of a bitumen mine. The speech below talks about
how the Canadian government is allowing the Boreal Forest to be destroyed, just to
extract oil. The ideological perspective presented in the source is nationalism. In the
western provinces, we are so loyal to oil, we will go to extreme extents to get it. In the
1980’s, the National Energy Program was created, with the goals of making Canada a
self- sufficient country for energy, to reduce foreign ownership for oil and gas
companies operating in Canada and to protect Canadians against high energy costs by
because the prices of oil had drastically dropped, which was causing companies to do
business in other countries, which caused high unemployment rates. In 1981, Prime
Minister Pierre Trudeau and Alberta Premier Peter Lougheed, agreed to let Alberta
control oil prices and revenue. Following this prices of oil rose, people started to invest
and Alberta became prosperous. Since then, Alberta has become an oil boom province,
with over 149 000 square kilometers of oil and gas mines, producing 175 billion barrels
of oil. In recent years, environmental stewardship and how we can reduce our impact,
has become a prominent topic. Has our need for oil become bigger than our need for
the environment? To what extent are we willing to sacrifice our environment for a
resource that can kill our planet? Our loyalty to oil has, in some ways, taken our identity
as Canadians. The author of this source, has a strong bias that is against oil sands
expanding and is afraid that our Canadian identity is being taken away and we are only
The relationship between all three of the sources is the principle of nationalism.
we adapt and accept people of all ethnic backgrounds as part of the Canadian identity.
Source two demonstrates how nationalist and non- nationalist loyalties compete,
through the Canadian military and the Oka nation battling against each other. Source
three demonstrates how our loyalty to oil is hindering our ability to protect our
environment. Nationalism is the force that pushes us to deeply think about our loyalties
and our values. How we expand and grow as a nation, encompasses the things we