CRI394H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: British Subject, Victory In Europe Day, British Land

• School: UTSG
• Department: Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies
• Course: CRI394H1
• Professor: Matthew Light

Document Summary

Germany surrendering to powers of soviet union, canada, france etc. Flag british flag (used as official flag of canada) Celebrating triumph of british empire but are in canada, are all white (racist policies) Canada defined by british empire, citizens were british subjects (but excluded certain racial minorities) Reinforcing this idea that canadian identity has emerged out of british empire. Emergence of canadian citizenship outside of british identity (but excluded certain subjects) Review of marshall (developed citizenship as a bundle of different rights- civil, political and social) One small island that manages to take over a large part of the worlds territory. Wwi single legal status that everyone in british empire held (i. e. people in canada, india, Modern citizenship is most similar to after wwii citizenship. A timeline of canadian independence and citizenship policies (background for discussion) Having citizenship of your own is a basic aspect of sovereignty, thus its questionable if you think that when canada was independent.