Canadian Regional Tensions and Cohesion

This assignment examines the various regional conflicts that threaten Canada's national cohesion. It analyzes tensions along fault lines such as language (English/French), political ideology (centralist/decentralist), and cultural identity (Aboriginal/non-Aboriginal). The core/periphery model is used to understand power dynamics and resource distribution within Canada. The discussion also includes the conflict between 'old timers' and 'newcomers,' highlighting how immigration impacts social structures and relationships.

The regional
Geography of Canada

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................2
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4

INTRODUCTION
The entire plant is divided into the three main parts. Which are core, periphery and the
Semi-Perphery. Core is commanding “central” realm, on the other hand, periphery is to be
isolated, dependant, and underprivileged. Semi-Periphery is the combination of both. Such
dominance dependency syndrome highly influences on the economic structures and exchanges,
and on the power exchange. In this report, Canada's geographical area is going to be defined.
TASK 1
Core and periphery are implemented in the geographic models to depict region of
differing economic manufacturing and political power which could be implemented to both intra
and inter-state variations (Core and Periphery Model, 2017). However, core areas are defined as
the engine of economic emergence and are characterised by the updated, technological and
modern manufacturing tools which and most proficient and highways labour (Palmer, 2014).
Under these nations products are manufactured by implementing technologically complicated
tools, wages are high, and the labour force is highly educated and proficient. While on the other
hand, nations such as Cambodia, Bangladesh, and the most of the Sub-Saharan Africa are the
main examples of this periphery, where technology is no more advance, labour intensive and low
skills, and also have low labour rate. Such are highly generalised throughout the nation that
could be the area of core processes and the areas of peripheral processes.
Core Area: Core area means an area which provides favourable geographic qualities which are
providing better transportation and communication opportunities and providing good access to
market.
These areas are developed areas where people resides and getting all things regarding their
livelihoods.
These areas are dominated and privileged in comparison to periphery areas.
Periphery area: Periphery areas are those areas which less developed and weaker states where
there are less opportunities are available in these areas. They become backwards because less
opportunities and many of obstacles such as; lack of technology, government, poor education,
etc.
Measures to convert periphery area into core area
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 Better education; to provide better education opportunities to those areas. Start
campaigns to provide knowledge regarding benefits of education.
 Better Health: Establish new health institutions in such areas and provide free health
check-ups.
 Job opportunities: Establish new venture in those areas and provide new job opportunities
and building of great infrastructure.
 Safe environment; Provide safe environments to the residents of such areas and ensure
safety of them.
British Columbia: A Core area
British Columbia is a core sector because where environment is favourable to reside.
Lots of opportunities are available to the persons to run their livelihoods easily.
Facilities which are available in core area are:
1. Job opportunities
2. better Transportation
3. better communication
4. developed infrastructure
5. Easy available resources
6. Healthy environment
West Canada: A periphery area: West Canada is the area situated in the upper side of Canada
where the climate conditions are not relevant for residing thats why the development of these
areas are null so they are called periphery areas.
Main reasons for becoming an underdeveloped are:
1. unfavourable climate conditions
2. underdeveloped infrastructure
3. lack of Transportation, communication
4. lack of job opportunities
5. lack of better health measures
In 19 century, core procedures are the identified by the industrialised mass manufactured
goods, like- textiles, in place such as Manchester, England. Nowadays, textile manufacturing is a
peripheral manufacture procedure which is so normal in nations of the international south
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(Grubler, 2012). Most probably upgraded technological computer and the financial companies
predominate under the core areas. At the time of emerging concern over spatial and socio-
economic disparities at the territorial, domestic, and the international scales, core periphery
concept consistently to be the most effective scientific and applied relevance. Traditionally, core
periphery disclosures also had an ideological connotation like-in Marxist theory, cores are tends
to achievement peripheries in pursuit of colonial, imperial or the capitalist interests (Yang and
Leskovec, 2014). These are able to identified via geographically, culturally, economically and
politically. Core areas might emerge in regions offering favourable geographic qualities, Under
the most convenient conveyance and communication situations, an ample of endowment with
resources, and also great access to markets. Few cores are fundamentally in historical-cultural
territories of a particular important, while others emerged as an outcome of the political
judgment and administrative policies.
TASK 2
Canada's geography is the core-periphery. There are various factors by which the core-
periphery which could be identified as the ample territorial size, various physical environments,
and the infinite access to resources and the spatial discrepancies of dispersion of the population
and so on. To be the northern nation over the globe, along with the vast geographical territory
being situated in Canadian shield and arctic atmosphere, core areas in Canada have the southern
spatial bias. At the end, uses of the rich agricultural resources led to the emergence of a Prairie
settlement core spurred by vast European immigration. Presently, the emergence of oil and the
natural gas in Alberta has triggered a dynamic growth under this province with the development
of advanced core of the national importance.
Bone evolves four areas of divisions in Canadian society which he argues threaten the
local cohesiveness of the nation (Rombach and et. al., 2014). This has been concluded that the
regional tensions are increasings consistently. Some of the issues are mentioned hereunder:
 Atlantic Canada: Canada is the country which is located in the northern region, which
preventing the producers there from accessing markets in the Central Canada or the
Western region of the country. Producers can not offer products to the local markets due
to the great American tariffs rates. This stalled economic improvement under the
maritime.
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 Prairie Provinces: Farmers were forced to buy expensive machinery from central
Canada.
 The cost of the transporting grain to oversee markets was very high.
 British Columbia: The economy was driven by the exports of fish, timber, and minerals
to overseas locations.
 Territorial North: This is area which was neglected and assumes as a remote wilderness
until resources were found. The federal government subsidized the forming of highways
leading to resources. Bone places a highest concentration on these fualtliness, which
covers: centralised/decentralist. Country's heterogeneous nature often incorporates the
basis of regional quarrels” mainly for the centralist/decentralist faultline. The
core/periphery model is main concept which is mostly referred to entire text. This
represent the core as the focus of power/population, along with the periphery/hinterland
such as the weakly emergence, resource based area (Forster and et. al., 2013).
Area of tension in Canadian society which threatens regional cohesiveness;
1.English/French
2.Centralist/Decentralise
3.Aboriginal/non-Aboriginal
4. Newcomer/old-timers
Newcomer/Old-timers:
=> Old timers These are the original residents of Canada from old time, they have majority in
Canada and get treated from the new comers coming from the different countries because they
are from different religions and have Impact on growth of old Canadians.
=> Due to new comers the work should be divided and manipulation get started inn between the
two communities, old timers and new timers.
=> The monopoly of old timers gets demolished because of new timers because now they don't
demand the as power their will because the substitutes are available.
=> Due to such conflicts between old comers and new comers it getting much serious and takes
the shape of religious fight which results in religious cohesiveness.
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CONCLUSION
From the above mentioned report, this has been concluded that the critics of the global
economy highlighted the model advises that the core has structural benefits which enables it to
control, and even strengthen, its position via unequal exchange of capital.
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REFERENCES
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Rombach, M. P. and et. al., (2014). Core-periphery structure in networks. SIAM Journal on
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Yang, J., & Leskovec, J. (2014). Overlapping communities explain core–periphery organization
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Grubler, A. (2012). Energy transitions research: Insights and cautionary tales. Energy Policy. 50.
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Palmer, F.R., (2014). Modality and the English modals. Routledge.
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