SOSC 1350 Lecture Notes - Canadian Economics Association, Canadian Identity, Royal Canadian Mounted Police
29 Mar 2013
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Recap from last semester: it is problematic to understand race as biological and cultural: official multiculturalism in canadian public policy and law. Multiculturalism sets up a hierarchy in which the culture (i. e. , white people) is set up above the so-called multiculture (everyone else) Entrenched charter in the constitution was an obsession of former prime minister pierre trudeau since the 1960s, and he finally saw that dream come to pass in 1982. Section 15 is used as a legal tool against discrimination based on sex or race etc. However, sexism and racism in canadian society were not huge concerns of trudeau. Trudeau was not overly concerned with issues related to sexism and racism in canada. Rather, he was concerned with the rise of the quebec sovereignty movement. Multiculturalism, like the charter, didn"t come about because of serious concerns amongst federal politicians about racism in canada; rather, it came about by a way of delegitimizing quebec"s claims to be an important culture.
