SOSC 1350 Study Guide - Final Guide: White Ribbon Campaign, Hostile Work Environment, Assisted Human Reproduction Act
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Contemporary points system: racist laws undermining canada"s status in un, becoming a national embarrassment, no one wanted to leave western europe to come to canada, canada needed people from other parts of the world. Britain recognized, countries consisting of people of color it is less likely to be recognized. Immigration offices, more in britain than africa, for example: vast majority of canada born citizens would not qualify for immigration under point system. Interdependence between lord and peasants: poverty law only concerns unemployed, the poor law (england, 1601, exchange of land for protection, poor were taken care of, cities started to grow, peasants became landless wage workers, poverty grew. Jeffrey amherst and germ warfare against mi"qmac: you will do well to try to inoculate the indians by means of blankets, as well as every other method that can serve to extirpate this execrable race. Amherst"s journal entry (1740s: small pox blankets.