MHR 600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Rosalie Abella, Visible Minority, Economic Integration
30 Nov 2016
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Week 7: race and ethnicity in the workplace. Historically, canada relied upon western europe, especially great britain, as major supplier of immigrants. In the two decades after end of wwii, canada maintained policy of favouring immigrants from. United states, united kingdom and other european countries. In the 1960s, major changes in the canadian immigration policy placed emphasis on educational and occupational skills as criteria for selecting immigrants. Changes in immigration regulations in 1967 resulted in adoption of universal point system for assessing prospective immigrants, irrespective of country of origin or racial background. The term visible minorities received official recognition in 1984. Judge rosalie abella identified this group as constituting one of the four designated categories in the royal commission report on equality in employment, along with aboriginal peoples, women and people with disabilities. According to the 2011 national household survey, the largest groups are south asians (4. 8 per cent), chinese (4. 0 per cent), and blacks (2. 9 per cent).
