POLI 204 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Canadian Multiculturalism Act, Biculturalism, Social Equality
10 Dec 2017
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On one side, critics from quebec have argued that multiculturalism is an attempt to undermine french culture, by reducing its status from that of. Instead of viewing the policy of multiculturalism as reducing french to the status of other minority groups, they interpreted multiculturalism as elevating all minority cultures to the same rank as that of the. French: they expected that this would lead to complications because other minority groups would request and negotiate for greater institutional powers, just like quebec had been doing. In english, the word nation is often equated with country. It should be referred to as a multinational state rather than a nation-state. Instead, these groups have tried to redefine their involvement in the canadian federation to increase their autonomy. Its right to withdraw from federal programs in provincial justidications has been recognized. What matters here is the political correspondence between the voters and their rerpesentative.
