Canada Identity

The need for human interaction is universal. One way to fulfil this concept is through the action of communication. Throughout the constant developments in history, many desire to establish a unqiue nation that defines their culture. There are many significante factors that contribute to one 's nation 's identity. Through an authority figure, many were able to have a voice in the decisions about their country. This atmosphere of news ideas and voices cherished an expansion in an unique Canadian identity. Canada is a country of duel languages, multiculurlism, and impartiality but it was through the efforts of one man that allowed these components.

Due to Pierre Trudeau 's involvment in immigration, equal oppournities and French-Canadian

To begin with, intitionally being apart of the British Empire, Canada had spectific view on appropite immigrates. Since the early times, discrimiation has greatly affected the immigration policy. Due to factors like various cultural beliefs and religious differences, series of notorious refusals decisions were made; which lead to damaging concequences for those immigrant 's. In particular, the refusal of the ship the St.Louis carrying 930 Jewish refugees in 1939; ultimately sentencing three-quarter of its passengers to death under the Nazi regime. The Chinese head tax was targeted toward the immigrants from 1872; impacting the cause of prohibition of all Chinese immigrants in 1923. In relation to equal rights for each indiviual, Trudeau believed that discrimination and racism should not be allowed when accepting one as an immigrate. In 1976, a new Immigration Act came into law. This act gave more power to the provinces of setting their own immigration laws. Following the critia of cultural and demographic goals and non-discriminatory. List of prohibited individuals was replaced by categories relating to health, public safety, criminality, propensity for violence and fraudulent immigration claims. In addition, it provided a first formal inclusion of refugees as a distinct class of immigrants. Refugees had been determined on a basis resulting in persecuted and displaced persons that did not qualify as refugees could still be allowed entry into Canada in humanitarian grounds. The removal of the restrictions provdies the framework for modern immigration policy. "Visible minorities made up 12.4% of immigrants who arrived before 1971. During the 1970s, this proportion more than quadrupled to 53.0% and further increased to 67.4% of those who arrived in the 1980s." stated by Statistics Canada. Essentially, all aspects of racism are banned from the acceptance of new immigration; providing a equal chance to each