SOSC 1350 Lecture Notes - Tim Stanley
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Tim stanley, john a. macdonald wanted an aryan" canada (k) The author of this article, tim stanley, wrote about a white supremacist, john a. Mcdonald and his comments to the house of commons. For mcdonald, canada was to remain an aryan race (master race) and the chinese threatened its purity. Sir john a. wanted canada to remain white. He even went so far as to refer to the electoral franchise act of 1885 as my greatest achievement , and spoke favourably on an amendment to ensure that chinese and other non-whites would not be allowed to vote. Here mcdonald introduces race as a defining legal principal of the state. That the very roots of the legal system was based on racism. Actually i was not surprised at all as i already learned about canada"s racial background in other classes. John a mcdonald is just one of the many people that had this opinion about.
