The concept of faultlines, in other words, offers a useful approach for thinking about and studying the human geography of Canada. In this assignment, each student will select ONE of the four faultlines as the focus for a research paper. Each paper will develop a case study (or particular topic), which illuminates a geographical dimension or dimensions of the selected faultline. The case study should focus on a particular place in Canada where the selected faultline is evident.

For example, a paper might analyze how the immigration faultline in Canada is associated with policies, which have promoted the development of ‘ethnic enclaves’ in cities like Toronto. Or, a paper might evaluate the French/English faultline by analyzing and explaining the comparative electoral success of the Liberal Party and the Bloc Québeçois in various regions of Québec over the past few federal selections. Or, a paper might consider to what extent the politics of gun control is divided between particular rural and urban parts of the country. Case studies may involve questions that pertain to different geographical scales. For example, a paper might consider how the centralist/decentralist faultline is aggravated in a particular place by the liberalization of international trade under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Students have the freedom to choose their own case studies but these should be selected with care, as sources may be more readily available for particular topics. In every case, the selected topics must have a strong geographical dimension. A paper targeting, for instance, the aboriginal/non-aboriginal faultline might look at conflict over hydro development in a particular part of Northern Québec. A paper dealing with the immigration faultline for example, might focus on the development of ‘ethnic enclaves’ in downtown Toronto rather than just the rhetoric of, or changes to, immigration policy over the last 50 years.

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