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In nine pages this paper examines how politics has evolved in Western Canada since the 1930s, taking into consideration the economic insecurities and social divisions that exist within British Columbia and the prairie regions of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba, with political parties and social reforms among the topics discussed. Ten sources are listed in the bibliography.
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File: TG15_TGwcanpol.rtf
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Canada remain, but because of the social and populist activism that have always been popular in British Columbia and the prairies of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba, political parties are regarded
a powerful instrument to counter alleged Western government underrepresentation and to demand social reform. For the Westerners, political parties are viewed as a way to gain access into a
government system they believe largely ignores their grievances. The regional alienation concept that has historically characterized the West has since the 1930s continues to shape the perception of
insiders and outsiders regarding western Canada. This alienation - whether genuine or imagined - along with the differences that have long existed between the provinces themselves, fuel the economic
insecurities that persist to this day. In their book The Collapse of Canada? Banting, Dion, and Stark (1992) observe, "Beyond shared grievances with central Canada, however, there is little in
the way of a common culture or collective interest that unites outer Canada and distinguishes it from the rest of the country."1 A characteristic urban example of the western
Canadian experience can be found in Winnipeg, Manitobas capital and largest city. Its history has been described as "one of contractions," as the Winnipeg frontier once prospered in Anglo
capitalist wealth, but when immigrants, predominantly from Eastern Europe, began relocating to the city during the twentieth century, the struggles for jobs and against disease awaited them.2 Throughout the
1930s and thereafter, Winnipeg - like many western towns - began being undermined by simmering ethnic tensions. This has been a major cause of western Canadas economic disparities, with
the residents of British ancestry generating higher incomes than their immigrant counterparts. These ethnic struggles inspired "labour and social activism and progressive political thought and organization."3 Even though
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