HIS312H1 Lecture Notes - English Criminal Law, Dual Mandate, English Canada
Document Summary
Making aboriginal people immigrants too": a comparison of citizenship programs for. Newcomers and indigenous peoples in postwar canada, 1940s 1960s. Attempts at assimilation: reeducation programs to assimilate newcomers into conformity. Crown countries like canada and australia wanted autonomy/independence from britain but wished to maintain certain british traditions. Had to explore ways of facing their troubled histories of racism towards both immigrants and indigenous peoples, and of mapping a route for full national citizenship and unity. Many mistakes: misplaced assumptions and problematic policies, dci experiment. Programs premised on trope of indian as immigrant. Arguments that we are all immigrants fit the narrative of the federals gvt but not history. Indians and films, false narratives and the true realities. Transfer of power from f to b legally strengthened slavery in canada. Summary: new laws introduced by britain after british victory in canada. French law in lower canada, english law in upper canada, english criminal law was applied to all.
