The Government's Role
“I carry a piece of identification in my wallet based on my ethnicity.” Wab Kinew (Huffington Post, 2016). The outcome of First Nation’s funding for education, and quality health care is based on their ethnicity. There are two forms racism in this country, the rude name calling that is not as bad as it was back 50 years ago, but it still exist in our day and age today. The other form is a more of a silent one that the government performs which First Nations people are born into and are blind too. And they try to keep this on the DL, which is sick. The lack of funding to first nations education. “Indigenous students receiving $4,000 less per pupil in annual funding than every other Canadian kid.” (Huffington Post, 2016). So obviously Canada has a big problem on their hands.
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An unemployment that is twice the national rate, dropout rate of 23% (20-24 year without a high school diploma, not in school), a median income that is $10,000 less than the average Canadian (Canada racism problem, 2015). When the Canadian government does not do anything to improve these numbers, there is obviously something wrong with the way our country is being run. Racism started with the Government's of this continent. With the intentions of trying to kill the indian with in the indian. The residential school era, has caused the children, to be damaged. Not being raised by their parents, they were not taught the proper way to raise a child. The child would also be lost in this knowledge, in raising a child. and be damaged from an im proper uprising so what do they turn to? Alcohol, and drugs, which now we see this in our day to day lives as First Nations people such as High school dropouts, unemployment and low-income to support
Canada is seen as a culture-embracing country, however when it comes to First Nations, Canada falls short. First Nations people face higher rates of unemployment, lower life expectancy, and have fewer high school graduates. These are only three of the many problems that First Nations people face. Although Canada has taken many positive steps toward ending the discrimination to First Nations people, there is and will always be room for improvement.
This quotation is taken from a Hollywood film, but has a tendency to ring true in legal disputes in Canada involving minority groups. Racism as a component in the Canadian societal context has prevented the realization of truth and justice throughout history. For instance, Donald Marshall Jr. endured a wrongful conviction as a result of racism in the criminal justice system. While this dilemma has proved to be most difficult for minority groups to overcome, critical race theory, as implemented by defence lawyers in R.D.S. v. The Queen, has allowed for the realization of racism as truth in Canadian society and provides a
Canada’s treatment to the Aboriginal people and other racial minorities is sadly something that it cannot take pride in, especially after all, Canada is commended globally as an exemplary of cultural variety and has a commendable repute for its liberal anti-racist policy. This essay will prove that today’s government should be held accountable for injustices of the past as first nations people were treated unequal for many years and other immigrants in Canada weren’t recognised and were made to be different and struggle. Canada is recognised for, and prides herself on, the abundant diversity of cultures, ethnic backgrounds, races and beliefs which live inside its borders. Therefore the government should be responsible for ensuring that all its qualities are met with high standard and the Canadian government should facilitate injustices of the past.
In March of 2012, a white power rally in Edmonton drew out a dozen or two members of the Blood and Honour racist group. They were met and peaceably challenged by hundreds of participants in an anti-racism rally, which was "coincidental" (Dykstra). Therefore Canada still does have lurking racism, but in its overt forms it is socially unacceptable. This paper will address the overt forms of racism evident in Canada, which include hate groups like Blood and Honour. However, it is the covert forms of racism and bias that threaten to undermine the social fabric of Canada.
Canadians should feel terrible in the fact that Canadian citizens treat First Nations people terribly, Canadians turn the environment into a vast wasteland and Canada has a horrible economic performance. Firstly, Canadians have treated the First Nations people unfairly. This is evident in the fact that Canadian citizens would take children in First Nations tribes and put them in residential schools where they would be assimilated even though that’s recently cancelled now Canadian still don’t give the First Nations peoples a lot of rights and stick the First Nations people in reserves with horrible living conditions. This is important because Canadians don’t even see First Nations Peoples as equals which is evident in the way that we treat them.
The history of Canada is the era of where colonization all began towards aboriginal peoples. Over the past decades, aboriginal peoples have been mistreated and misused by the white-Europeans. They have been oppressed by Canadian society that we are known still by today and continue to live under racism resulting in gender and class oppression. The history of colonialism has been playing a big part in the way of how aboriginal people have been constructed and impacted on how aboriginal people are treated and viewed in Canadian Society. They have been dealing with the struggles, inequality, and discrimination that we have been putting them through for over three centuries, we’ve been also failing them with Canada’s racist policies
I decided to pursue the Governmentality, Democracy and Citizenship approach to address the issue I chose to work on, how racism in Toronto affects its education and economy. It is of no surprise to anyone that a person’s life and achievements may depend strictly on his/her skin color. In the following paragraphs, I discuss how racial discrimination has changed over the past fifty-four years, and how the different coloured populations have reacted to these changes.
Many will agree that the root of the horrendous conducts stipulated in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Report is an old classical racism; but has this classical racism vanished or just done a cosmetic face lift over time? It would be naïve to think that the report in question had any impact on the basis of racism in Canada. Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada may have opened some eyes, but correspondingly, has not and cannot eradicated the source of racism, so as to stop racist based injustices from reoccurring. The probability of repeating such racism stipulated in TRC report looks feeble in today’s Canada, nonetheless a kind of modern racism which is complicated, hard to penalize, and is multi-dimensional, that has developed in the recent years, and needs to be addressed, exists. As defined contemporary racism is the
Augie Fleras explains racism within Canada through the book titled Unequal Relations: A Critical Introduction to Race, Ethnic, and Aboriginal Dynamics in Canada. The topic of focus for this article review will be the “Defining Racism” section, which starts on page 77. In this segment of the book, Fleras focuses on references to racism as being eclectic and diverse in definition rather than singular and unchanging. Fleras then goes on to define the five major themes of racism as categorized by biology, ideology, culture, structure, and advantage. The author goes into depth on each category in order to explain the concepts of these types of racism clearly and coherently. Fleras makes many great points throughout this portion of the textbook; she provides accurate information on the topic and uses multiple sources to support the information given.
//First, the issue of racism has existed in Canada long before it became as ethnically diverse as it is today. Racism began with colonialism and white settlers believing that they were better than the indigenous peoples. The racism that First Nations people face is deeper rooted than that of any immigrant (however, Muslims and Middle Eastern immigrants are beginning to face increasing levels of racism and prejudice). Further, the multiculturalism policies instituted by Canadian government is geared towards the acceptance of immigrants and all cultures and ethnicities, yet as a country we cannot respect those who were here before the “Canadians.” Thus, the multicultural policies geared towards immigration does not deal with the fundamentally institutional racism against one of the most marginalized people groups in Canadian society – First Nations peoples. Moreover, Canada’s multicultural policies “purposefully ignores the structural contexts in which the Canadian society, economy, and polity have developed historically and operate currently. It has adopted a diversity discourse that portrays Canada as a horizontal – not as a vertical – socio-economic and political space.” (Satzewich, 2017, p. 158-9). These policies keep the power with the powerful by
Statistic shows that “ 18 percent of racialized men report experiencing discrimination or unfair treatment when dealing with the police or courts; compared to 5.8 percent of non-racialized men in Canada”(Statistic Canada, 2009). Racism is a specific belief that human race unlikeness put them into different groups and also affect their status in society (J.S. Frideres, February 2006). History of racial discrimination foundation in Canada is long, has many different aspects and begins in 18th century. On that time, European began to colonize territory of today’s Canada and build friendly relationships with native population. They help each other to build new, intelligence society; however, even if colonizers collaborated with aboriginal people, First Nation was, for them, no more than “noble savages”. Then, when time of their partnership had gone, Europeans betrayed indigenous people and put them in a special area with ban to go somewhere else. From that time, racism began to progress
A few years ago in Smalltown, CA a burning cross was placed in the lawn of a visible minority family. Although the media seemed shocked at this explicit racial attack and portrayed the attackers as a group of abnormal, twisted deviants, I was not surprised. As an Asian student who is writing her Sociology honours thesis on visible minorities in Canada, I know on a personal and academic level that racism in Canada does exist. Although explicit racial incidents are not a common occurrence, they do happen. Here at school, a visible minority student left the school when a car sped past her, while the young men inside shouted racial slurs. Two weeks ago The school paper published an article about a group of
This is not the first time Canada has hosted activists fighting for racial equality. The American Civil War, World War II, the Civil Rights movement – we’ve seen it over and over again. Each crisis, obviously, is unique. But they all have to do with structural racism – when the system discriminates against people of colour. Why can’t we solve this issue yet?
Earlier this year, the Quebec minister of immigration, diversity and inclusion, Kathleen Weil, declared that Quebec was going to have a public consultation on systemic racism and discrimination in September 2017(Bellemare). This decision can make us ask the question, is systemic racism currently a problem in the province of Quebec? To properly answer this question, we need to define the term systemic racism. Systemic racism is when racial discrimination has become such a part of a society that it is included in its norms and its system (Oxford Dictionaries) and this puts racial minorities at a disadvantage (Wikipedia). If we use this definition I truly believe that systemic racism is a current problem in Quebec.
Canada is seen by the outside community as an equal, culturally-diverse, and fair society which is open to minorities, no matter the race, religion, gender, or social class. Pierre Trudeau stated his stance on Canada as a fair society during his 1968 Liberal Party Leadership Contest: “The Just Society is one in which the rights of minorities will be safe from the whims of intolerant majorities” (Heath, 2002). Although this quote may put a good image to Canada’s name, many minority groups, namely First Nations, have a significantly lower amount of opportunities compared to their majority counterparts, even though there are higher murder and assault rates contrasting to the majority of Canadians. The Aboriginal peoples of Canada have constantly struggled to thrive in the unmatched society; the population has constantly faced discrimination through the Canadian Government’s attempts to assimilate and conform the culture into the Eurocentric ways of life. Furthermore, the stereotypes that the minorities face in Canada force an unfair image unto the First Nation community, causing possible employers, land or house owners, as well as the general public to have skewed perceptions of the minority groups. Canada is an unfair society, which discriminates against minority bands of people.