Canada: Regional Divisions, Political Preferences, and Public Opinions

The report analyzes the necessity of dividing Canada into regions, highlighting the influence of political ideologies, voting behaviors, and policy preferences. It emphasizes that differences in public opinion and political perspectives, such as those related to religious symbols and oil pipelines, are key drivers of these divisions. Furthermore, the report contrasts the geographer's view of regions, based on scientific and natural features, with the perspectives of the people living in these regions, who may have strong emotional attachments and sentiments. It uses examples to illustrate how these differing viewpoints can lead to clashes and disputes, using Canada as a case study to explore the complexities of regional identity and division.

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Necessity of dividing Canada into regions
There is necessity of dividing the country like Canada into regions because differences in
politics, ideology, voting behaviors, preferences of various policies by citizens, economic
performance, and opinions of people around. Every province gets its power from 1867 act of
constitution. The differences make it necessary to divide the country into provinces as there are
differences in the attitudes of the public. As Canada is land of diversity where high number of
people from other countries reside. In a recent issue, the people residing in various provinces of
Canada claim for different problems. Premiers claim for inequality in their provinces while
Alberta fight against the pipelines (Stein, 2018). Although in Canada, there are no major
differences in geography which could be considered the reason for dividing it into regions but
there are differences of opinions among Canadians that could be considered the major reason for
division of regions of Canada. For example, the Quebeckers do not favor the symbols of
religions while the individuals of other provinces support them. The differences of the opinions
on various issues or policies such as oil pipelines and religions make are the major reason for
dividing the country into provinces (Stein, 2018). There are also differences of political
perspectives of people. Some people prefer one political party over the other. The political
parties use such preferences to fuel their governmental goals. Such differences in the political
ideology among the individuals are used by the political parties for their winning strategies. The
diverse range of opinions, customs, perspectives, and traditions.
Regions defined by geographers are not same as perceived by people
It is not necessary that the regions defined by the geographers are same as the regions
perceived by the individuals who live in them. The geographers define the regions based on
various scientific evidences that include the longitude and latitude where a place lie on the globe.
The regions are defined by various artificial or natural features of the land. The artificial or the
natural features include government, language, religion, wildlife, forests, and climate of the
regions. For example, some of the middle east regions are classified based on the religions
practiced there. It is not necessary that once the geographers defined area, it would be perceived
the same by the people living there. As people have various sentiments and emotions that are
related to the region so that they do not get ready to accept the geographically defined regions by
the government authorities. The non-acceptance of the regions defined by the geographers leads

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to various clashes between the region’s parties. For example, Canada is divided into various
regions based on some geography but still the clashes arise between the people due to the
regional disputes (Terashima, 2016).

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References
Stein, B. (2018). One-Day-Wide’Canada: History, Geography, and Aerial Views at Trans
Canada Air Lines, . Canadian Journal of the History of Science, Technology and
Medicine/Scientia Canadensis:, 19-43.
Terashima, M. (2016). Misclassification errors from postal code-based geocoding to assign
census geography in Nova Scotia. Canadian Journal of Public Health, e424-e430.