[39] On a practical level, a result of the multiculturalism Act was federal funds began to be distributed to ethnic groups to help them preserve their cultures, leading to such projects as the construction of community centres. [40] On November 13, 2002, the government of Liberal Prime Minister Jean Chrétien designated, by Royal Proclamation, June 27 of each year Canadian Multiculturalism
Essay option: Referring to the articles “Unless They Are Kept Alive” and “The Holocaust of First Nation People,” write an essay on the residential school system. Choose one aspect, such as the purpose of the schools, the long-term impact for the students, or the impact on families, as the focus of your paper. The residential school system is a method used by Canadian government to assimilate Native people into the mainstream society. Run by churches, the system is funded in 19th century, where the Canadian government believed it was their responsible for educating Native people. The government claims that education gives the Native children a better chance of success, while the real purpose of the school was to mould their behavior, believes and lifestyle in a particular way.
Historian Alan Gordon begins an informative essay on Jacques Cartier, the “Discoverer of Canada,” with the intriguing statement that this sixteenth century French explorer was “really a nineteenth-century figure”[1]. The author then proceeds to explain this extraordinary statement by describing how Cartier was virtually unknown to Canadians prior to the nineteenth century, which is when Cartier himself was “discovered,” so to speak, by the historians of that era. After a rather exhaustive introduction, Gordon states his premise quite deep in to the essay, which is that he “...will attempt to show how historical heroes are used for political ends”[2]. This is an evocative approach, which Gordon
Water Management in Canada Despite the greatest volume of water resources, both in total and renewable terms among OECD countries, Canada persistently faces two issues: water scarcity and water quality (Sustainable Prosperity, 2011). Since the UN Conference on Environment and Development in 1992, Canadian government has taken a keen interest in developing a comprehensive, coordinated, and sustainable water management system. Accordingly the sustainability ethic in water management circulates around three core principles: practice integrated water resource management; encourage water conservation and the water quality; and resolution of water management bottlenecks. ( Fitzgibbon & Bruce, 2006) In Canada, the federal government has the strongest legislative control over water usage and management (Environment Canada, 2012). The burden of integrating national policies and standards under the sustainability vision falls on the federal government, which has to coordinate the regulative controls of 20 departments and agencies (Environment Canada, 2012).
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The Canadian government is doing its best to help rebuild the native culture through the Truth and Reconciliation Commission which was created to help former students. From residential schools Canada has gained a “this will never happen again” attitude, and from this, Canada has solidified itself as the multicultural country that people view Canada as
This narrative concerns growing up away from one’s father in one of the Indian cultures of the Pacific Northwest. It’s also an intimate view of a nonnuclear family; the author is interested in the family not as a static set of defined relationships but as a social network that adapts to the ever changing circumstances and needs of its members. Roger Jack worked as a counselor and instructor for the American Indian Studies Program at Eastern Washington University. His work has been published in several journals and anthologies, including Spawning the Medicine River, Earth Power Coming, and The Clouds Threw This Light. “An Indian Story” appeared in Dancing on the Rim of the World: An Anthology of Contemporary Northwest Native American Writing
It's situations such as this that makes me not believe in legal obligation to the extent which Socrates does where it's almost absolute. I do agree with him that one should obey the laws of the land that governs them, but only to an extent. While the law may have been beneficial to you throughout your entire life and got you to where you are today, if it were to wrong you, you should be able to defend yourself. Even though I do share the same belief about the soul being more important than the body and it continuing to exist after death, I don't believe all unjust acts ruin the
Primary and Secondary sources- Canada at the Turn of the Century to WW1 Visual primary source, Sir John A. Macdonald, K.C.B. [pic] http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/sir-john-a-macdonald/023013-7020.2-e.html A-Notman, William, 1826-1891. The name I linked previously was the author of this source. He was the photographer and he worked with Sir. John A Macdonald for many shots.
<BR> <br> In Hans Ruesch's novel The Top of the World the author describes the life of the polar Eskimos (Inuits) in depth. The main focus of the novel is to show the differences between their culture and ours, and how the introduction of the white mans customs changed their way of life. The concepts of ethnocentrism and cultural relativism are major themes in The Top of the World. Understanding these concepts is important for a full understanding of the ways people think and behave. <br> The Inuit society at the top of the world is a small one.