SOSC 1910 Lecture Notes - Canadian Identity, Consciousness Raising, Viola Desmond

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 1910
• Professor: Kerry Taylor

Document Summary

**last 10-15 years that we see legal change around the idea of legal race** Wing challenged the white women"s labour law. When it reached the supreme court of canada it said that yes it discriminates but yes we also think that it"s okay. 1914-1924: saskatchewan took out the words japanese and oriental persons from the act. The result was that the law appeared to be neutral. What they expected was that discrimination was still going to continue in practice even though it was no longer in the legislation. 1924- clun: this was about a restaurant owner in regina who brought an application to get a license to employ white women. At the time the chinese exclusion act was in effect. This created a shortage of now white labour. The application was refused by the city council. He took his case to court and won this court decision was seen ad truly offensive to the legislature of saskatchewan.