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Affirmative Action In Canada

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...been an official goal of every national government since it was first promulgated in 1971, but it arose as a philosophy somewhat earlier, in response to the initiative of the Liberal regimes of Lester Pearson and Pierre Trudeau to make Canada an officially bilingual country (Gibbins & Ponting, 1986). In a bid to appease Quebec nationalism, they adopted policies that boosted the influence of the French language and the role of French-speakers within the federal government. By definition, these policies challenged the traditional notion of an English-dominated Canadian character. They also fostered the historically-in-accurate myth of Canada as a union of two equal "rounding peoples." Other ethnic groups predictably bristled at the implicit suggestion that anyone who was neither English nor French was second-class, so the Liberals adopted multiculturalism as official government policy too (Gibbins & ponting, 1986). But from what I have read and learned, to the social theorists who developed the policy, it was more than a mere cushion for ethnic minorities. In fact, multiculturalism was a key element of what one political scientist whom I read about calls the "ersatz...

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