Canadian Regionalism and Provincialism

The government of Canada contributes to the continuation of regionalism. This government is a parliamentary system with an executive cabinet that can control the House of Commons. The country has a presidential, divided-powers system in which the executive does not control and must negotiate with both houses of Congress. Demographics based in part on geographical differences and climatic differences also contribute to regionalism, for each area in the country has its own identity, its own needs, and its own values to a great degree.

In some degree, the battle over Confederation and specifically over the desire on the part of the Québecois to separate from the Confederation shows how Confederation is a conservative movement. This is so not merely because maintaining the Confederation is conserving the status quo but also becau

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get come from general government funding. In spite of this, CBC programming is largely free of government interference. Private stations affiliate with the government-run network for some broadcasting. The way the electronic media have developed in Canada has been much influenced by the country's geography. This is a vast and sparsely populated land, with less than 7 persons per square mile. Most of the population lives near the U.S. border, so close in fact that 50 percent of the Canadian population can receive television and radio broadcasts from the northern United States. This fact has presented a major problem for the Canadian electronic media because on the whole the people prefer programming from the United States to what is produced in their own country. Canadians are very interested in the media and watch a lot of television. They also listen to a lot of radio, and Canada is one of the few countries where there are more radios than people. Another problem is that people in the northern remote areas are few and far between and so are difficult to serve. The need to serve these people is why there is a mixed service system in Canada. The incursion of American programming has also spurred the government to pro
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