POLS 1400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Corporatism, Social Partnership, Canadian Bar Association
23 Jan 2017
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Two major trends emerged in canada in the 1970s a significant increase in immigrants from asia, south america and africa and growing political activity with post-material movements such as feminism, environmentalism and consumerism. These two trends have shaped what canada is today. Without the change in immigration trends, urban centres such as toronto, Montreal and vancouver would not be the multicultural mosaics they are today. Without the change in focus to new political concerns, certain rights and freedoms may not have been extended to more traditionally marginalized groups in society. Canadian political institutions have accepted and adapted with these changes in canadian society. Trudeau government in the 1970s and legislation updated by the mulroney government in the late 1980s. The entrenchment of the charter of rights and. Freedoms in the patriated 1982 canadian constitution changed the political environment in canada, providing many groups with a new political vehicle to achieve rights-based goals and objectives.
