SOCA01H3 Lecture Notes - Enoch Cree Nation, Peguis, Cultural Genocide
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); ask for help in stores but no irish needed. Minorities can physically look the same as majority but still be treated differently. Irish built much of canada, chinese = visible minority. Chinese experienced overt open discrimination over long periods of time head tax certificate, had to pay head tax to come to canada. There are problems trying to apply minority/majority definitions in canada. Majority/dominant group advantaged in terms of rights (political, civil) & resources (wealth) But majority groups in canada not given any extra rights because. Constitution (trudeau) prohibits inequality as it pertains to rights. Supreme court strikes down inequality based on rights. Except in 1 circumstance 1 minority group that has special rights under. Canadian law, supreme court upholds special rights that other groups don"t have aboriginal people have rights to hunting, fishing, trapping not usually limited by quotas on the amount they can hunt. Minority groups are supposed to have fewer rights than majority groups, but.
