POLS 2300 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Quebec Act, Telefilm Canada, Interculturalism
20 Nov 2015
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Respect for diversity has become canada"s pre-eminent trait. Recognition of group rights goes back to the 1774 quebec act. From founding nations to multiculturalism: the changing ethnic demography of. Canada was built on the displacement and marginalization of aboriginals and settlement by. *although there were also loyalists and non-loyalists who left america following the war of independence. Languages were french and english and religions were roman catholic or protestant. Charter groups: the founding nations (i. e french & catholic and english & protestant) Partnership of john macdonald and george etienne cartier symbolized those founding nations. First government did not contain anyone who was not from one of these charter groups. Not until the 1960"s royal commission on b and b did the two nation image get any criticism. *ukranians demanded recognition of canada as a multicultural society, not a bicultural one. Achieved in the 1971 multiculturalism act along with the creation of the new federal ministry of state for multiculturalism.
