Please answer 2 of the following 3 questions. You may use outside sources to

help you answer the questions if you wish. You should aim for 5-7 pages or

approx. 3 pages per question. Any reference style is fine. Please try to give as

much detail as possible in your answers. Details can be policies, dates, leaders,

theories, authors, political parties, historical events, referendums, interest groups,

etc.

1. Canadian politics, it is said, constitutes both consensus and conflict. How

well does our parliamentary political system manage these two aspects of

our politics?

2. Does our parliamentary political system in Canada work well with our

federalism? Or is there an inherent tension between the two? Do we miss

seeing anything in Canadian politics amid the constant interplay between

these two institutions?

3. Political culture and political economy are clearly foundational in Canadian

politics. Discuss this sentence with reference to one or more of our three

founding pillars in Canada, as Peter H. Russell sees it: Indigenous

Canadians, French Canadians, and English Canadians.