Racial Discrimination In Canada

Racial profiling is the act of selecting targets for criminal investigation not on behavioural merit, but exclusively on markers of personal identity such as race, ethnicity, and religious orientation (Perry, 2011, p.9). In other words, racial profiling is the by-product of subjecting individuals who are from a particular racial community to a higher degree of scrutiny and surveillance by criminal justice system agents when compared to other racial communities (Wortley and Owusu-Bempah, 2011, p.135). One Canadian community in particular has been impacted by racial profiling: black Canadians.

And this solution led to liberal immigration laws that admit 200,000 new immigrants to Canada each year. About 70 percent of recent immigrants to urban Canada are visible minorities; people of color make up nearly 50 percent of populations in Vancouver and Toronto and are the fastest growing communities in Canada’s eight largest cities (J. Y. Yee and G. C. Dumbrill, “Whiteout: looking for race in Canadian social work practice,” inMulticultural Social Work in Canada: Working With Diverse Ethno-Racial Communities, A. Al-Krenaw and J. R. Graham, Eds., pp. 98–121, Oxford University Press, Don Mills, Canada, 2003.) For instance, RBC Financial Group has ensured that 22% of their workforce is comprised of visible minorities (V. Dugale, “The changing color of Canada,” Our Times, vol. 25, no. 5, pp. 24–28, 2006.) Similarly, FedEx has a high proportion of visible minorities (almost 7%) in senior management positions. Its staff represents about 19 nationalities at its Mississauga, Ontario headquarters (R. Robin, “Delivering diversity,” Canadian Business, vol. 77, no. 7, p. 38, 2004.)

The government's first action to battle racial discrimination was the enforcement act of 1870, this act banned racial discrimination in voter registration. It also established consequences for those who interfered with one's right to vote. The government's second attempt to end discrimination was the enforcement act of 1871 which allowed federal oversight at elections if any citizen felt it was necessary. This act came with harsher punishments. The third and final attempt to end discrimination was the Ku Klux Klan act. This made any state official accountable in federal courts for stripping anybody of their civil right or protection of the law.  The KKK act also made several of their ploys federal offenses. This resulted on several hundred

Cultural issues are complicated ones to solve. Sometimes it is even tough to express opinions about them. It is an area where one has had to establish one's bona fides before weighing in. The audience has to be assured that the commentator loves Canada more or at least as much as the next person and is willing to stop at nothing to protect our culture. Trade consultants wanting to mine the cultural field are well advised to have a Can-lit or artistic icon as an immediate family member. Otherwise, they need not even bother hanging up a shingle.

It is the assumption of many that Canada is a nation free of racism. Canadians pride themselves on being culturally diverse and accepting, and on having relatively progressive social policies such as that of universal healthcare. However, there are many ways in which the current and historical policies have expressed explicit racism that have left an already marginalized population with the crumbs of society. A prime example of this can be demonstrated in the mass overrepresentation of Aboriginal youth in care. By the year 2010, there were around twenty-seven thousand Indigenous children in the Canadian child welfare system who were living in some sort of out-of-home care (Chappell, 2014). Although they represented only seven percent of the children in Canada, they made up 48 percent of all children in foster care. (Yukselir & Annett, 2016). This phenomenon is not a recent trend, as it has been occurring since the very creation of modern child welfare in Canada as it is known, and it has its roots deep in Canadian history. This paper will demonstrate a timeline of the events which have lead to this phenomenon in Canada, specifically focusing on the province of Ontario. Important facts which may have contributed to the overrepresentation of this population will be discussed, such as historical methods of colonization in regards to child welfare including the implementation of the residential school system and the Sixties Scoop. Policies that have also had a profound impact,

I would tell my co-workers that I don’t agree with their statement. Being a Canadian makes you just as responsible to help out other Canadian citizens, especially the ones who have been on this land before colonizers. Respect shouldn’t be optional but given to the Native communities who have suffered to make Canada what is known today. Because of certain aspects of Canadian history, past colonialism actions are still prominent today and are affecting Native communities greatly. For instance, the legacy of the ‘Indian princes’ and the ‘squaw’ still remains prominent in our society. Taking the recent case of a featuring Cree writer named Rosanna Deerchild, In 2015, Maclean's documented her experience of facing discrimination. “They call me a

Discrimination occurs everywhere on a daily basis. In Canada, even though we pride ourselves on being “multicultural”, we too show prejudice towards those of different religions, cultures, and skin colours. One of the worst instances of discrimination and prejudice that plays a major role in the lives of many is the implementation of residential schools in the late 19th century. Children were forcibly removed from their homes, and slowly had their culture striped from them through abuse, neglect, humiliation, and even torture. This attempt at assimilation of the Aboriginal people by churches as well as the government left a dark stain on Canadian history.

Their Board of Directors are quite diverse in terms of race and ethnicity, in comparison to other institutions that over represent white males. Furthermore, their 150 stories initiative gives an opportunity for people whom are not normally heard in Canadian society a voice. It gives them a platform to share their story and subsequently present our similarities as human beings. The demonstration of our shared identities as human beings is quiet significant as it disrupts the program that has been installed in us, which is to focus on differences and respond to it with fear and loathing (Lorde, “Exceprt from Age, Race, Class and Sex”). Therefore, the Canadian Race Relations Foundation is a crucial step towards the advancement of equity, but falls short in its execution. The organization tends to sustain the status quo than disrupt

        In Canada the road to racism is compared by John Boyko to ladder the first rung being stereotypes. These stereotypes are brought to existence by popular culture such as newspapers, magazines, cartoons, and movies. The next rung is prejudice, which is the belief that stereotypes are true. These beliefs are portrayed in phrases such as, “They are all”; or “Those people”; prejudice only looks at groups not individuals. The next rung is discrimination which is an action based on prejudice. For example an employer not hiring someone because they believe the stereotypes about the group that that person belong to. The next rung that Boyko talks about is sanctioned discrimination. This is where the discrimination becomes entrenched in our laws and practices.  After that the next step is systematic racism, which is seen in laws that promote segregation.  This step leads to the next step, a need to purify the nation through exclusion or expulsion.  And finally that last step, which is genocide, the deliberate extermination of a race. (Boyko; 1998) In this essay I would like to talk about the 5th step in the ladder, sanctioned discrimination. Canada, which prides itself on being a multicultural nation, has a

The purpose of the Canadian human rights act is to prohibit discrimination in public situation based on the number of grounds. Discrimination does not have behaviour intentionally to be against the act. In other word, even if someone responsible for the action/comment that he/she did not mean, it is still discrimination against the law. Discrimination in the work place means an employer/employee has an action or a decision that effect a person in negative/unfair treatment based on grounds. For example, firing a woman from a job because she has mental disability and paying differently between a man and a woman in the same job. People in Canada are from different countries and have multi-culture. Therefore, the Canadian human right act is

In 2001, a gang of homophobic people in Stanley Park, Vancouver beat a man named Aaron Webster to death using baseball bats. They killed him simply because he was gay. This is just one example of how hard life was for many LGBT people in Canada in the past. Some of the reasons for these difficulties were because those who were gay were discriminated against, simply because they did not fit society’s criteria of “normal”. Also, it was illegal to get married to someone of the same sex, until 2005. Lastly, those who were gay had unequal rights, compared to others. The changes in laws since 1969, to a large degree affected the LGBT community of Canada, with the guarantees of equal rights to all without discrimination, and the passing of the civil

I value the bringing up I had as a child, in our household discrimination was frowned upon, be it sexual discrimination or racial discrimination, there was no place for it in our home. We were not tolerant, because this would imply superiority, we were taught that all people are individuals and must be judged by their own merit, not based on categorical assumptions. Racial jokes were not tolerated; neither were misogynistic ones. Being exposed to prejudiced attitudes still makes me uncomfortable. In Canada the Human Rights Act, and various provincial laws, protect workers from discrimination in the work place. My own experience in the construction field has shown me that regardless of

Discriminatory and abusive behaviour towards another based on their race is of national and international concern. Australia has enacted anti-discrimination legislation in all jurisdictions, as well as the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (Cth) [RDA]. They have also ratified international treaties concerning this issue. However, Australia has been criticized internationally for an ‘absence of any entrenched guarantee against racial discrimination’.

Discrimination is defined as any action or speech which negatively impacts an individual for characteristics such as their race, age, disability, or intelligence. The estimated number of homeless Canadians, on a given night, is approximately 35,000. That equates to roughly 235,000 homeless people annually in Canada. In 2011, the employment rate of Canadians aged 25 to 64 with disabilities was 49 percent. The population of Canada in 2016 equals 36 million people. Countless people encounter bias surrounding diverse disabilities and homelessness. People who pigeonhole others according to their perceived worth will have you conclude that the handicapped and homeless are an inconvenience to the day-to-day lives of so-called “normal” people in society.

On average, a Canadian minority makes 81 cents for every dollar a Canadian majority makes (Edward Galabuzi et al.). This shocking fact proves that systemic racism is a continuous problem in our society. “Rooted in a racist foundation, systemic racism today is composed of intersecting, overlapping, and codependent racist institutions, policies, practices, ideas, and behaviors that give an unjust amount of resources, rights, and power to white people while denying them to people of color” (Cole). As this definition states, this form of discrimination can be shown in various forms. White people are the ones that tend to hold most of the power in our province ,and even in our country, which results in a unbalanced political, economical and social nation.