Political Science 2230E Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Backtracking, Premiership Of Stephen Harper, Reverse Discrimination
21 Mar 2016
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Scienists commonly avoid the word race no biological diference between people. Change in ideniies began in 1960s as francophones status was upgraded, other minoriies sought increased rights as well. Prior to 1970, general approach was to encourage assimilaion into english canada. Trudeau, 1971 adopted oicial muliculturalism policy, principle of equality. Briish and french immigrants + aboriginals three founding peoples : other naionaliies immigraing post-1867 to openness of north ontario, prairies, bc, large amounts from coninental europe as well as britain and usa. 1879 naional policy laid way for irst dramaic surge of immigraion in the prairies (danes, 1. 4 million between 1910-13, and large waves in both post-war periods: britain as leading source between 1900 and 1965 immigraion policy favoured briish, American, european newcomers who were considered well educated, skilled and able to assimilate. Immigraion act: amended in 1960s to remove discriminatory features as immigraion paterns changed rapidly, asian immigraion was under 2%, now at 50% annually.
