SOCI 475 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Dual Loyalty, Canadian Arab Federation, Voluntary Taxation
16 May 2018
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Important Note:
Jan, 10th, Wed
Topic four and Topic 10 have switched weeks
-Week four we will be going to a seminar on Ethnic Match
Proposal:
-Half page of the idea and 6 academic references for paper proposal
Introduction: Canadian Ethnic Studies
Historical Overview:
John Porter and the Vertical Mosaic - Looks at social class and power in Canada
● Following this multiculturalism came out in Canada - from the BNA act there became the
recognition of two groups and from here you can expand to more
● Post 1945 - B + B (Dualistic) Commission in the 1960s - a document which was a royal
commission
○ Resulted from the rise of military separatism - FLQ a violent group
● From this other groups saw that they were not represented and spoke up to the
Canadian Government which created another book in this report called the contribution
of the other ethnic groups (volume 4 in the b+b report)
Canadian Constitution and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms
● 1985 it is placed in
● Liberal democratic societies that are becoming increasingly diverse and how do you deal
with this? In CA it is the CoRF
○ Section 2 - Fundamental freedoms
■ Freedom of religion, thought, belief, opinion
○ Section 15: The Equality Section
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■ Every individual is equal in and before the law based on - sex, age, race,
origin etc. in the public sphere
■ This allows fighting against racism - this represents the goal of integration
○ Section 27 - only found in CA
■ Multicultural heritage section
■ Everything is interpreted with the preservation and enhancement of the
charter
○ Maximum participation vs cultural retention - the two objectives
Racism
● Large spectrum *
Lecture: Jan, 17th, 2018
Reading Review:
Burnet and Palmer:
● Showing that many different groups and people have a piece in this country
Thompson/Weinfeld Article:
● Immigration argument
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Document Summary
Topic four and topic 10 have switched weeks. Week four we will be going to a seminar on ethnic match. Half page of the idea and 6 academic references for paper proposal. John porter and the vertical mosaic - looks at social class and power in canada. Following this multiculturalism came out in canada - from the bna act there became the recognition of two groups and from here you can expand to more. Post 1945 - b + b (dualistic) commission in the 1960s - a document which was a royal commission. Resulted from the rise of military separatism - flq a violent group. From this other groups saw that they were not represented and spoke up to the. Canadian government which created another book in this report called the contribution of the other ethnic groups (volume 4 in the b+b report) Canadian constitution and the charter of rights and freedoms.
