Chapter 3: Reconciling Nationalist Loyalties

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1 Chapter 3: Reconciling Nationalist Loyalties Chapter Issue: How should people reconcile their contending nationalist loyalties? Related Issue #1: Should nation be the foundation of identity? Name:

2 Related Issue #1: Should nation be the foundation of identity? Chapter 3: Reconciling Nationalist Loyalties: How should people reconcile their contending nationalist loyalties? How Do Nationalist Loyalties Shape People s Choices? (Pages 62-68) Loyalty means being firmly committed or faithful to someone or something. What other words are used to describe loyalty? (Middle of page 64) Answer: Look at Figure 3-2 to see what things people can be loyal to. You can publicly show your loyalty to your nation by participating in a national parade or celebration, or how Victoria Callihoo showed her loyalty to the Metis. People will often show their loyalty when we are faced with a choice and required to make a decision. These choices to show our loyalty can range from being easy to something that can require great sacrifice. Some circumstances make it difficult to be loyal than others, especially when being loyal seems to conflict with your own interests. See examples in textbook to examine loyalty more closely.

3 Patriotism and Loyalty (Page 65) 1. What does patriotism mean? (1 mark) 2. What has love of people inspired? (1 mark) 3. What has patriotism inspired? (1 mark) 4. What things have inspired patriotism and loyalty in others? (1 mark) 5. What did Jay Forbes do in 2007? What was the new name he was requesting? Why? (3 marks) 6. Where does this section of highway run? (1 mark) 7. How many signatures were collected by the time the stretch of highway had been renamed? (1 mark) 8. What did Ontario premier Dalton McGuinty say on September 7, 2007? (1 mark)

4 9. List three ways you show loyalty to a friend, group, or to Canada. (3 marks) 10. What is Katimavik and what do the volunteers believe they are doing? (1 mark) 11. What are contending loyalties? Please write out all 4. (2 marks) 12. Look at Figure 3-5 on page 66. Do you think the two statements on the picture represent the same national loyalty or a conflict of national loyalties? Explain. (4 marks)

5 What Choices Have People Made to Affirm Nationalist Loyalties? (Pages 67-71) Read pages 67 and 68 about reclaiming Inuit names and Inuit identity. atanarjuat_documentary_060425/ ?hub=entertainment Read Kiviaq - Championing a People s Rights on page 68 and then respond to the following question below. Please read the following statement and answer the question below in intalics: Many governments assign numbers to citizens. You may have an Alberta health card number, or maybe a social insurance number, or a number that goes with your driver s license? (5 marks) Is assigning numbers to indiviuals in society simply a tool that makes things easier for the government - or is there something disturbing about it? Explain. Assessment of Learning

6 National Loyalties in a Pluralistic Society (Pages 69-71) Nationalist loyalties means a commitment to one s nation. Non-nationalist loyalties means a commitment to other aspects of people s identity. Questions: 1. Why do many immigrants come to Canada? (1 mark) 2. What is cultural pluralism? Provide the answers in the right margin at the top of page 69 and the definition in the paragraph at the top of page 69. (2 marks) 3. What do some immigrants who come to Canada experience in their own countries? (1 mark) 4. What s another name for cultural pluralism? (1 mark) 5. What is so special about Canada in relation to multiculturalism? (1 mark) 6. What do Canadians celebrate and what are we encouraged to honour? What guarantees that we will be able to celebrate and honour this? (3 marks)

7 On page 69, two different arguments about cultural pluralism are outlined and discussed. Below, please describe in point form what Neil Bissoondath says about Canadian multiculturalism: Below, please describe in point form what John Ibbitson says about Canadian multiculturalism: Expressing Non-Canadian Nationalist Loyalties (Page 70) If you have ever moved to a new town or a new school, you may have an understanding of what it feels like to try and fit in into a new environment. This can be true for new Canadians. At first, they want to try and fit in with their new country, but over time, they may begin to feel more comfortable expressing their non-canadian nationalist loyalties. Question for discussion: Should Canada require immigrants to give up their previous nationalist loyalties when they become Canadian citizens? Why or why not? Assessment of Learning

8 Putting Pluralism to the Test (page 70) Canadians are divided over how much immigrants should try to fit into Canadian culture. This debate often focuses on reasonable accommodation. 1. What is reasonable accommodation? (2 marks) 2. Who was Balej Singh Dhillon and where did he come from? (2 marks) Read about Balej Singh Dhillon on page 70 and look at and examine Figure 3-11: Some Understandings of Cultural Pluralism Reasonable Accommodation and Nationalist Loyalties (Page 71) Ever since Confederation, people have disagreed over whether the idea known as reasonable accommodation supports a shared sense of Canadian identity and belonging - feelings that are ESSENTIAL to developing nationalist loyalties. Read on page 71 and write out below what Stephen Harper had to say about what is Canada s greatest STRENGTH. (1 mark) And NOW,...QUEBEC Read the bottom of page 71 in your text to look at how citizens of the province Quebec have dealt with reasonable accommodation concerning new immigrants and how this has become an issue for Quebecers and about how minority communities have expressed a lack of accommodation for their cultural and religious beliefs.

9 How Can Nationalist Loyalties Create Conflict (Pages 72-76) Sometimes, people can be loyal to more than one nation and their nationalist loyalties can exist without conflict. If you are a new Canadian citizen, for example, you might feel a strong loyalty to Canada. Please read the top of Page 72 and then look at why July 1 is considered a day of mourning in Newfoundland as well as a day of celebration. Contending Loyalties and Conflict Contending nationalist loyalties can lead to conflict between peoples. Conflicts can arise, for example, when two peoples want to establish their nation in the same territory. If they cannot settle or resolve their conflicting loyalties, the result may be violence. Israel is an example. Look at Figure 3-14 on page 73 and discuss the meaning of the cartoon. Contending Loyalties in Quebec (Page 76) Questions: 1. What do Quebecois have a long history of? (1 mark) 2. What did the referendum of 1995 force Quebecers to do? (1 mark) 3. What percentage of Quebecois voted in this 1995 referendum? (1 mark) 4. What did the NO side want? (1 mark) 5. What was the margin of victory for the NO side over the YES side? (1 mark) 6. What did these results show to Quebecois? (1 mark)

10 7. What did a 2006 poll of Quebecois find? (1 mark) 8. What did 58% of the responders to the poll say? (1 mark) 9. What did Quebecois want their politicians to do? (1 mark) The Sovereignty Debate (Page 76) 10. What is a Quebecois sovereignists? (1 mark) 11. What do Quebecois sovereignists believe in? (1 mark) 12. What do the Quebecois that oppose sovereignty say? (1 mark) 13. Why are these people sometimes called federalists? (1 mark) Look at Figure 3-19: Two Views of the Debate over Sovereignty on page 76.

11 Answer Questions #1, 2, 3, 4 below. Assessment of Learning. #1) In your own words, explain what contending nationalist loyalties means? (3 marks) #2) Provide an example of contending nationalist loyalties? Describe how serious the conflict is in Canada and/or around the world - or how serious it could become. (3 marks) 3) Explain what Mike Myers means when he says, we re (Canadians) more like celery as a flavour. (3 marks) 4) Explain what Arnold Edinborough means when he says, Canada has never been a melting pot; more like a tossed salad. (3 marks) Total: /12 marks

12 How have people reconciled contending nationalist loyalties? (Pages 77-81) Questions: (Page 77) 1. What does reconciling mean - in the first paragraph on page 77. (1 mark) 2. List the items of reconciliation in the right margin of page 77. (2 marks) 3. What has the Canadian government tried to do to First Nations, Inuit, and Metis in the past? (1 mark) 4. What have governments began to recognize? (1 mark) 5. Where are the rights of First Nations, Inuit, and Metis enshrined? (1 mark) 6. What do many First Nations, Inuit, and Metis continue to struggle with? (1 mark) The Oka Crisis (p. 77) 1. What did a group of Mohawks do in 1990? (1 mark) 2. What was this group of Mohawks goal? (1 mark) 3. What happened on July 11, 1990 and who was killed? (2 marks) 4. What did other First Nations groups do in protest? (1 mark)

13 5. What did the Quebec government do as the crisis deepened? (1 mark) 6. How many Canadian soldiers moved in and what did they do to bring an end to the conflict? (2 marks) 7. When did the protest finally end? (1 mark) 8. What are the names of the two men featured in the picture of the Oka crisis in Figure 3-21? (2 marks) 9. What happened to many of the Mohawk protesters? (1 mark) 10. What did the Federal government do with the disputed land? (1 mark) The Royal Commission of Aboriginal Peoples (p.78) 1. What was a wake-up call for the Federal government? (1 mark) 2. What was set up in 1991 by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney? (1 mark) 3. Who made up the royal commission? (1 mark) 4. Who chaired the royal commission and what did they do? (2 marks)

14 5. What was the question that the commissioner was attempting to answer? (1 mark) 6. What was the groundbreaking five volume report of 1996 called? (1 mark) 7. What did this report condemn? (1 mark) 8. What words were used to sum up the commissioners main conclusion? (1 mark) 9. How did the report urge Canadians to view First Nations, Inuit and Metis? (1 mark) 10. The report said that Aboriginal people are... (1 mark) 11. How long had Aboriginal people lived as nations before the arrival of Europeans? (1 mark) 12. What had they forged as nations? (1 mark) 13. What four principles did the royal commission propose as the basis for renewed relationship between Aboriginals and the people of Canada? (2 marks)

15 Canadian Government s Statement of Reconciliation (Page 79) 1. What did the findings of the Royal Commission lead the Canadian government to do in 1998? (1 mark) 2. What did the government acknowledge? (1 mark) 3. What did the government also admit? (1 mark) 4. What three things had governments in the past done to hurt First Nations, Inuit, and Metis? (3 marks) 5. Read the governments apology on page 79. Can a statement like this be an important part of the reconciliation process or can it have a negative effect? Explain. (3 marks) Land Claims (p.80) 1. What did the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples say about land? (1 mark) 2. What did the federal government s Statement of Reconciliation not mention? (1 mark) 3. What is a land claim? (1 mark)

16 4. What did the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples identify as the most intense conflicts between Aboriginal and non-aboriginal people? (2 marks) 5. Who were the parties involved in the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement? (1 mark) 6. When did the dispute begin? (1 mark) 7. Why did the dispute begin? (1 mark) 8. What did the project do? (1 mark) 9. How long did it take to settle the dispute? (1 mark) 10. What do you estimate to be the percentage of the province of Quebec covered by the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement? (1 mark) 11. Look at Figure 3-27 on page 80. Why do you think it takes the so long for the Canadian governments to settle Aboriginal land claims? (2 marks) Read the rest of page 80, starting at On June 29, together as a class.