note-splicer/
├── requirements.txt                    # Python dependencies
├── Spliced_Notes.json                  # Compiled master notes file
├── Spliced_Notes.txt                   # (Empty) Alternative text format
├── note_summarizer/                    # Core processing components
│   ├── README.md                       # Detailed usage guide
│   ├── requirements.txt                # Component-specific dependencies
│   ├── extracted_notes.txt             # Raw extracted notes
│   ├── spliced_notes_schema.json       # JSON schema for notes structure
│   ├── Spliced_Notes.json              # Component-level compiled notes
│   ├── structure.json                  # Additional structure definitions
│   ├── structure_example.json          # Example structure
│   ├── training_dataset.jsonl          # Training data for fine-tuning
│   ├── Generated_Notes/                # AI-generated structured notes
│   │   └── Module_1/
│   │       └── Module_1/
│   │           ├── Module_1_Part_1.json
│   │           ├── Module_1_Part_2.json
│   │           └── ...
│   └── note_summarizer/                # Scripts directory
│       ├── create_finetune_dataset.py  # Dataset creation for model fine-tuning
│       ├── create_vector_db.py         # Vector database builder
│       ├── extract_notes.py            # Note extraction utilities
│       ├── finetune_lora.py            # LoRA fine-tuning script
│       ├── note_processor.py           # Main note processing script
│       ├── prepare_dataset.py          # Dataset preparation
│       ├── query_rag.py                # RAG query interface
│       ├── run_poli_sci_qa.py          # Political science QA runner
│       └── splice_json.py              # JSON splicing utility
├── src/                                # Source code directory
│   ├── format_notes.py                 # Note formatting utilities
│   └── note_summarizer/                # Alternative script location
│       ├── create_finetune_dataset.py
│       ├── create_vector_db.py
│       ├── extract_notes.py
│       ├── finetune_lora.py
│       ├── note_processor.py
│       ├── prepare_dataset.py
│       ├── query_rag.py
│       ├── run_poli_sci_qa.py
│       └── splice_json.py
├── Lecture Transcripts/                # Raw input data
│   └── Organized_Notes/                # Organized raw transcripts
│       └── Module_1/
│           └── Module_1/
│               ├── Module_1_Part_1.txt
│               ├── Module_1_Part_2.txt
│               └── ...
├── final-notes/                        # Final processed outputs
│   ├── Final Q1 Citations.md
│   └── Final Q2 Citations.md
├── Note_Training/                      # Training data organization
│   └── Organized_Notes/                # Training transcripts
├── Simple_Notes_Organized/             # Simplified note organization
│   ├── Spliced_Notes.txt
│   └── Organized_Notes/                # Simplified organized notes
├── textbook_cleanup/                   # Textbook processing utilities
│   ├── extracted_text cleaned.txt
│   ├── extracted_text.txt
│   └── textbook_cleaner.py
└── vector_db/                          # Vector database storage
    ├── chroma.sqlite3                  # ChromaDB database file
    └── [collection_id]/                # Collection-specific data

Hi, everyone, and welcome to this first official course of Poll 2101, Introduction to Canadian Politics.
So, in this first model, what I want to talk about is, it's a broad theme of the Canadian constitution and the Canadian political community.
So, in many ways, what I want to see is the evolution of Canada over time from what wasn't called Canada at first, but that gradually became Canada in the 19th century.

But before we talk about some of these key moments, constitutional moments, I want to talk about a key element of when we talk about Canadian politics and the political life of Canada.
That might seem obvious, but it's important to always keep in mind, which is that geography matters a great deal in politics, especially when comparing different countries, and territory matters a great deal in Canadian politics.
This is a massive country, really large, you know, it takes the same time to go from Montreal to Vancouver, then Montreal to Paris on a plane.

And so, size matters, why?
Because it created different regional patterns of settlement, different regional interests, very different, just sort of physical geography, okay?
And it also matters because of the distribution of the population that is essentially close to the American border in the south, that also creates an important difference between people who live in the north and people who live in the south in many ways.
But I think really one of the main important differences is the economy, and we're going to get back to that frequently.
The resources are not the same in each region, they have very different economic interests, they have different economic markets, whether it's Asia, in British Columbia, or more closer to Europe, in Eastern Canada.

So that creates significantly different interests, okay?
And that's a great, really important.
And that was this notion of different interests, different territory, or different regions, sorry I should say, is very much related to the importance of resources, natural resources in the history of Canada and in Canadian politics.
And that was a key aspect, and one of the most important scholars of Canadian politics in the 20s, 30s, and 40s, Harold Dennis, who is an economic historian slash political economist, who developed this theory that is called the Staple Thesis Theory.

So what is the Staple Thesis Theory?
It is basically an approach that stipulates that Canada was economically dominated by the export of a series of staples to outside markets, whether first Great Britain, and then the United States.
So that includes fur, fish, later wheat, and today oil in many ways.
So you cannot understand the key aspect of Canadian politics without understanding the fact that the Western provinces, especially Alberta, is so dependent on oil.