CCOT- Contemporary Period- Notes 5: Feminism, Cooperatism, Neolibralism & Aboriginalism

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1 Name: Group: 404- Date: CCOT- Contemporary Period- 5: Feminism, Cooperatism, Neolibralism & Aboriginalism Chapter 4: Culture & Currents of Thought Section4: The Contemporary Period (1867-NOW) Part 5: Feminism, Cooperatism, Neolibralism & Aboriginalism Ideology that promotes and supports An idea that has been promoted in Canada since the late 1800s An idea that is still defended today Many individuals and groups have helped women gain the same rights as men Late : Women were viewed as or run for political offices Needed consent (from fathers or husbands) to do a lot of things Women did not have the same right to education as men for a long time Many fought these injustices Groups also fought for better public health and sanitation for children History & Citizenship Education Secondary IV 1

2 Feminism 1960s onwards Some Demands for: Rights to equal education Rights to involvement in the political sphere Access to a for working women Right to choose (Abortion) People who represented Feminism: Irma Levasseur: first female medical specialist in Quebec : led the womans suffrage movement in Quebec in 1920s and fought to help : fought for the right for women to be part of the Canadian Senate in the late 1920s : First female member of the Quebec government (MNA) Women s right organizations such as the Fédération des femmes du Québec (FFQ, Quebec Women's Fédération) History & Citizenship Education Secondary IV 2

3 How was feminism expressed? Important event: Formation of womens rights groups Literature (pamphlets, magazines, etc.) Women gaining the right to vote in federal and provincial elections Women being elected into political offices (Marie Claire Kirkland-Casgrain) Female led protests raising awareness for poverty in Quebec Bread & Roses March 1995 March to create awareness of poverty in Quebec Organized by Federation des femmes du Quebec (FFQ) Late 1800s-early 1900s techniques were French Canadien farms could not always keep up/buying new equipment was Large to smaller businesses like family run farms History & Citizenship Education Secondary IV 3

4 An economic (sharing) of (money) Management of resources is shared Profits can be shared Example: Les Producteurs de Lait du Quebec different milk producers in Quebec help each other out/ one organization help coordinate buyers, etc. People that represent Cooperatism Started Desjardins bank ( ) Started Desjardins co-op in late 1800s Didn t like unfair loans to farmers in Quebec The Union Catholiques des cultivateurs group of farmers in the early 1900s that shared resources and helped each other market agricultural products Esdras Minville: Quebec intellectual that promoted co-ops in Quebec History & Citizenship Education Secondary IV 4

5 Alphonse & Dorimene Desjardins: Late 1800s tired of banks taking advantage of French Canadien farmers Started first Caisse Populaire in Levis Quebec Farmers could join by investing their money with the Caisse Populaire & saving the money with the organization The organization used the savings accounts of it s members to invest to help modernize the farmer of it s members Profits made after investments would go back to all the members How was cooperatism expressed? were created to allow co-ops to operate in Quebec Cooperative Syndicates Act (1906) The in the province of Quebec (Desjardins, etc.) An economic IDEOLOGY that advocates laissez-faire economics If a company does well GOOD! If a company does not do well TOO BAD, SO SAD! History & Citizenship Education Secondary IV 5

6 Groups that represent neoliberalism: (BIG COMPANIES) Certain political groups (Conservatives in Canada) Advocates of free trade (like NAFTA) Groups that oppose neoliberalism: Socialists: social welfare groups, workers rights groups, environmental groups, etc. How is neoliberalism expressed? Companies prospering/doing well Signing of North American Free Trade Agreement ( ) in 1994 Canada, USA, Mexico can trade certain good/resources with minimal or no tariffs History & Citizenship Education Secondary IV 6

7 An IDEOLOGY that Respect for the needs of First Nations communities within Canada safe places to live, clean drinking water, access to essential services (healthcare) People that represent aboriginalism: Elisapie Issac: Inuit Singer, broadcaster and documentary film director Alanis Obomsawin Abinaki documentary film maker who focused on first nations issues Jean Luc Hervieux Cree artist (painting/sculpture) How is aboriginalism expressed? Aboriginal (, Festivals, Arctic Games) at Parliament Hill in Ottawa Iroquois Confederacy flag / Hiawatha belt First Nations History & Citizenship Education Secondary IV 7

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