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Should They be Assimilated or not? By Senuda Wettasinghe & Gobhiehan Srirangan Canada is a diverse and multicultural nation. Our immigration system is especially unique and is one of the key elements that creates our country. Canada is mostly formed of people of different backgrounds and religions, and our government is always welcoming new immigrants into Canada. Some may argue that these new individuals should be treated differently and should have modified rights just because of who they…

Why it is great to become a Canadian? Feb 5th, 2016 Cecilia Zhu When the word Canada is present, some of the things show up in people’s mind are the magnificent natural scenery, the famous hockey playing and the cold climate in winter. However, not only these three terms make Canada distinct from the other counties and is considered as one of the greatest countries in the world. Canada has the second largest territory in the world with a long history. The history of Canada covers the period…

1.Canadian negotiators went to Washington Friday to try to negotiate a settlement in the trade dispute. Trade Minister Sergio Marchi thought it was unlikely a settlement could be reached in time to stop the Commons from passing Bill C-55 on Monday. But now there's talk, the bill won't be proclaimed as law if it looks like an alternative agreement can be found. 2.The Canadian government uses a combination of financial ... address the cultural policies designed to promote and protect that…

Former Canadian Minister of Trade, Richard John Cartwright, once said: “every real friend of liberty, will agree with me in saying that if we must erect safeguards, they should be rather for the security of the individual than of the mass”. It was in this spirit that the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms were established over a century later, entrenched in Canadian law. However, in our modern society, there still persists a struggle between two major groups: those who wish to enforce…

A recent study suggests that the meaning of Canadian multiculturalism has changed from being a national identity for all Canadians to being a minority affair (Winter 2015). This argument relies on the concept of socioethnic leveraging whereby two minority groups are constructed against each other by a third dominant one (Winter 2015). In essence, it is a “dynamic set of triangular relations” where the “multicultural we” is constructed as the other against the dominant “us” (Winter 2015). The…

Bonnie Schmidt’s The Greatest Man-Catcher of All : The First Female Mounties, the Media, and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (2011) gives her readers an insight of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) program during the 1970s. She highlights the struggles that women face to get enrolled into the police force. The RCMP in the 1970s was consisted of mostly male and the images that RCMP promoted was masculinized. Meaning, emphasis was placed on what an the valued and traits a male police…

to combat the rising gas prices and renewed oil crisis, the Liberal government created the National Energy Program or NEP in 1980. This program was aimed towards protecting Canadians against the rising oil prices, making Canada able to produce its own oil and reducing Canada’s consumption of oil. Funding was provided to Canadian petroleum companies in order for them to be able to drill for oil in sites that looked promising. These sites included off the coast of Newfoundland and the Arctic.…

The Canadian Charter of Freedoms and Rights of 1982 clearly outlines rights of all Canadians. Part three states that every citizen of Canada has “the right to vote”. Consequently, it was evident that this was not always the case. Certain actions toward Canadian women that have labeled and at times, outwardly stated they were undeserving of certain rights were a reality. The fact that this demeaning behavior existed and was aimed at Canadian women can certainly be considered deplorable and…

impressed with the idea and message behind both of them. The first commercial I watched was “Escalator-Harder to Get Ahead”. Personally, I found that using the escalator to portray his thoughts was interesting. He stated that Harper is just causing the Canadian economy to move backwards due to the benefits he gives the wealthy and how he gives cuts to everything else. Next, he uses the escalator stopping to show that Mulcair isn't going to get our economy anywhere because he is promising more…

and provincial legislatures the power to repeal and amend imperial statues, with one notable exception. Any changes to the Constitution Act, 1867 could only be made by Westminster” The final three essential works of legislation is known as the Canadian bill of rights, 1960; the Canada Act, 1982; and the Charter of Rights and…