POG 315 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Equal Protection Clause, Canadian Multiculturalism Act, Visible Minority

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Politics and Public Administration
• Course: POG 315
• Professor: Abbas Gnamo

Document Summary

Lecture 3: ethno-cultural diversity and debate on multiculturalism in canada. The changes in terms of values, priorities and self- image; demographic reality and cultural and ethnic diversity. The adoption of multiculturalism in the 1970s and the change in traditional perceptions of. The debate on the limits of multiculturalism and group rights. Multidimensional in terms of ethnic patterns: uni-cultural-british, anglo saxon dominance 1763, bicultural-french and english charter groups 1963-1968, multicultural-since 1972 official, change of demographics in canada (foreign nations coming and settling in. Canada: response to first nation people being here before everyone else. Canada was never a melting pot: anglo dominance combined with racism and nativism. Postwar immigration, however, went far to change this dynamic. There is no core culture in canada (referent culture) Political and social unrest, government coercion and economic uncertainty underlie an increasing stream of refugee and economic migrants from areas outside western europe.