ARE YOU A CANADIAN OR A NOVA SCOTIA? I was in a lecture last night and it was on provincial political culture. In discussing ways of measuring participation among people my professor said that a way of measuring is to determine if people in Canada see themselves as Canadians first or as a citizen of the province, in my case Nova Scotia. He then went on to say that a healthy federation is one that has an equilibrium between the two. A federation for those of you wondering is a nation made up of two different, but equal, levels of government. In Canada, that is the federal government and the provincial governments and in the States the federal government and the state governments. So what do you see yourself as? Do you see yourself as a Canadian above all or as a citizen of your province? We also talked about which provinces have the most people that see themselves as Canadians first and which provinces that see themselves as citizens of that province. Among those that see themselves a...
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