In addition, the States had socially influenced Canada greatly, in terms of culture. Canada did gain some political independence, hampered by the fact that Canada depended on the United States for much of its social and economic success. Canada’s prime minister, Mackenzie King, did not follow the regular rules set by Britain. Instead he refused to send Canadian troops with Britain to invade Turkey in 1922. (Cranny p.55) Normally, when Britain went to war, Canada would automatically be at war as well, but King took a big step in not following orders from the mother country.
The purpose of this paper is to examine Desmond Morton’s article, “Canada’s Expeditionary Force: The Canadian Continent in South Africa, 1899- 1900.” Mr Morton argues that the nation did not properly take on board the hard lessons learned during the Boer War which left Canada doomed to repeat the same mistakes in future conflicts. He discusses the evolution from a militia force to a structured field force fighting an imperial war and how this was repeated in subsequent wars. All of these challenging aspects, which affected Canada’s effort and contribution, included a “national government deeply and gravely divided” [1] a lack of military focus, and inadequate leadership and a definite lack of required training. Mr Morton argues that Canada’s South African contingent suffered from a lack of leadership. The only experienced leader in the force was Lieutenant Colonel William Otter and although he was at a ripe age of 57, he was none the less the most experienced leader at that time, who gained experience in the Fenian Raids of the 1860’s and the Northwest Campaign of 1885.
Assess the importance of WWI in the development of Canadian identity. WWI as been the first modern warfare with new technology and long range of land and time involved has caused nearly twelve to fifteen million casualties. Canada as one of the Allied Forces had learned the harsh reality of war. Over the four years of the war and four significant battles, Canadian’s population was greatly depleted. Nevertheless, WWI is still an important opportunity and lesson for Canada to develop its own identity internationally and nationally.
To what degree is the Indigenous rights movement in Canada unique to this country, and how is it connected to broader international protests and processes? In the aftermath of World War II as the atrocities of the Jewish genocide came to light, many peoples’ attitudes towards racial intolerance were severely altered. The hitherto held notion that civilized European nations were the standard bearers for acceptable principles of behaviour had taken a huge blow. Japanese violence against the Chinese and the brutal destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the US did much to provide their citizens and politicians cause for rumination too. The culmination to all of this reflection was the United Nations and its consequent Declaration on Human Rights.
“This is a white man’s country and we want it left a white man’s country.” –A W Neill (Krishna, 2009). This quote is a fine example of multiculturalism in Canada. It shows how false the policy of multiculturalism is, although we appear to have a superior image. In 1971, multiculturalism became an official policy of Canada (Mock, 1997). It states that every citizen is able to express their own culture in this country; but that doesn’t necessarily make it multicultural.
Commentary on Current Issue Target recently announced it would close all of its 133 Canadian stores after determining it would not become profitable until 2021. The article titled, “Why Target’s Canadian Expansion Failed” found in the Harvard Business Review, outlines factors leading to this to withdrawal from the Canadian market. Target picked Canada for its global expansion because of its geographical closeness to the US, its mostly English-‐speaking
Labour Market Policy in Canada The working class in Canada is one of the most underrepresented groups in Canadian government. Since 1985 onward, however, the working class has been profoundly affected by severe cutbacks in social spending, privatization, deregulation and the adoption of neo-liberal policies. As the political party most affiliated with the organized labour movement, the New Democratic Party [NDP] is the party most representative of Canada’s working class. The NDP has based much of its party around protecting workers rights to join unions and bargain collectively, pay equity, wage protection, pension protection, and protecting employment insurance, one of the most important concerns of the working class. This paper will explore the ability of the NDP to effect labour market policy through the institutions of the Canadian state.
According to various researchers, Canada seems to lack a national identity when placed on the international map with other countries such as the US and UK, of which, this paper strongly agrees. National identity is extremely significant since it is a distinctive factor of every nation (Hirsch, 2007). If a nation lacks an identity, then it is automatically vulnerable to losing everything else such as culture and religion within it. National identity can be one way of uniting an extremely large group of individuals who share common traditions or ways of life. From a person opinion, a country’s national identity is one of the only forms of groups, which almost everyone is theoretically capable of joining.
OPPRESSION CONCEPTUALIZATION PAPER I believe that privilege is a special opportunity given to a particular person and not everybody. One are of my life that I have experienced a privilege is having the chance to come to Canada. I was born in Ghana and spent my most of my life there until I came to Canada. In a country like mine it is easy for people to die from hunger because there is barely help given to people with needs by the government. It is hard to live in a country like mine if one does not have a stable job to provide for himself.
Honourable Stephen Harper, 1600 90th Avenue Southwest, suite A-203 Calgary, Alberta T2V 5A8 My name is ______, I am writing this letter to address the issue of unreasonable search and seizure and random locker searches in Canadian schools. This issue violates section eight in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms; everyone has the right to be secure against unreasonable search or seizure. This right does include students. There are a number of worthy reasons that these unreasonable searches should be halted in Canada. Firstly, it violates the privacy of the student.