1. Chapter 5
Exploring Loyalties

2. Questions to Consider What are contending loyalties?
What challenges arise from having contending nationalist loyalties?
What challenges arise from having contending non- nationalist loyalties?
What challenges arise from having contending global loyalties?

3. What is Loyalty? What do we think of when we think of loyalty?
We can be loyal to people or to causes. Where does loyalty to one’s nation fit in?
Who are some people we are loyal to?
What are some causes we are loyal to?
Are there different degrees of loyalty, and how do we determine them?

4. When Loyalties Conflict
What happens when we hold multiple loyalties that come in to conflict?
Brainstorm some everyday examples of where our loyalties could come into contention?
Do these situations require that these conflicts of loyalty be reconciled?
How do we reconcile these contentions?

5. Nationalism and Loyalty
Nationalism requires loyalty.
Loyalties to different nationalistic ideals are, therefore, prone to conflict.
How might hyphenated identities create conflicts of loyalty?
Why is this potential problem particularly relevant to Canada?

6. Conflicting Loyalties in Canada
French Canadians (Language Loyalties, rise of the ADQ, military loyalty)
Aboriginal Canadians (Meech Lake Accord, loyalty to the land, Inuit issues)
Other conflicts (religious, regional, moral/conscientious, global, humanitarian)

7. Loyalties of French Canadians
Language loyalties p 102
Bill 101- Making French the language of government and the law, work, instruction, business in Quebec.
ADQ Party p 104
Rise in popularity.
2007 election results.
Québec separatism.
Military Loyalty p 105
Conscription crisis of 1917.

8. Loyalties of Aboriginal Canadians
Meech Lake Accord p 107
About more than French rights and status.
The Dene People
Struggle for self-determination.
Inuit Perspectives
Loyalty to the land and environment.
Changes in lifestyle (technology, economy) and resulting conflicts.

9. Other Conflicts of Loyalty
Dual Citizenship
Should MP’s be able to hold multiple citizenships?
How does this result in conflicting loyalties?
Religious Loyalties p 113
Does the Charter complicate matters in Canada?
Hutterites and driver's licenses.

10. Other Conflicts of Loyalty Cont’d
Conscientious Objectors/Ethical Conflicts
Mennonites and military service/taxes
Regional Loyalties p 115
Fort McMurray and Easterners
Where are you from? Do you hold loyalties to that place?
What about local loyalties, among different schools, for example?

11. Global Loyalties International Organizations p 116 Environmentalism
Oxfam and Doctors Without Borders
Environmentalism
Greenpeace and World Wildlife Fund
Alberta’s economy vs. the environment?
Humanitarianism
Should human beings ever be sacrificed for a purpose?
Issues in Haiti

12. Concluding Thoughts
In light of what we have discussed, think again about what your loyalties are? Do they come into conflict? If so, do they need to be reconciled? How might you do this?