POG 320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Color Blindness, Human Capital
4 Apr 2016
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*made incentives for people to want to come to canada* people were given plots of land for primarily farming. *hard to get women to come to canada. Started getting prostitutes to come and wife them up with the bachelor"s. *after race based policy came the points based system (1967). Discriminated or recruited people based on human capital. *medical exams upon entry to canada (if you have or more in medical bills each year you may not be allowed entry) Benefit: creates a more equal footing for everyone (arguable) *if we"re moving from a racist to a colour blind nation that is in fact very racist but cannot say we are racist. New form of colour blindness is potentially more dangerous. We"re saying we"re not racist but through research and statistically, we are still racist.
