POL 129 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Legislative Assembly Of Ontario, Chinese Canadians, Ahmed Hussen
6 May 2018
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Department
Course
Professor
11. Immigrants and Canadian Politics
Social inclusion: political participation and representation
Framework: understanding politics.
Eual ights ut: aaeess of poliy issues that affet iigats elleig ad oppotuity
Motivation?
Awareness of opportunities to participate in politics.
Political parties and elections.
Role of members of political parties:
1. Nominate candidates
2. Select leaders
3. Discuss and propose policies
4. Volunteer in election campaigns to help elect party candidates
Advantages: help elect candidates who, if elected, may form a government
Ipleetatio of patys eletio platfo
Access: MPs/goeet ad oppositio paties.
Disadvantages: Parties win elections, they also lose elections.
Representation of ethno-racial minorities in government.
Goeet y the people, of the people ad fo the people.
Representation: MPs represent constituencies (in Toronto approximately 110,000 voters)
Different interest, wants, needs and expectations.
MPs ae supposed to epeset o at o ehalf of all otes i his/he ostituey.
But goeet MPs deisio-making guided by government policies: role of prime minister and
cabinet.
Oppositio MPs deisio-making guided by party leader.
Representation on the basis of social class, gender and ethno-racial identity.
Gender: 51% of the population but 88/338 (26%) of MPs in the House of Commons.
*Gender balance in the cabinet.
Thno-racial identity: 22.3% of the population but 46/338 or 13.6% of the MPs in the House of Commons
(9.1% in 2011).
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