Multiculturalism in Canada

Running head: MULTICULTURALISM IN CANADA
MULTICULTURALISM IN CANADA
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Briefly introduce the service/initiative and the specific cultural group that it helps. Discuss
how the ideas in the article relate to course concepts learned so far.
The respective article “India’s Sikh Sensitivities and Canadian Politics” exhibits the reform
policies taken up by the government of Canada to allow or permit a culturally, linguistically and religious
minority group to represent themselves in the federal Canadian parliament (Thediplomat.com, 2019).
The news article discusses about Jagmeet Singh, a 38 year old Sikh lawyer, who was elected as the leader
of Canada’s New Democratic Party, creating history by becoming the first non-white politician to lead
and head such a major political party of Canada. Jagmeet Singh has been elected on the first ballot to
head the New Democratic Party against Justin Trudeau’s Liberals in the 2019 elections in Canada. The
immigrant Sikh community of Canada who originally hails from the state of Punjab, India, consists of
approximately about 1.4 per cent of Canada’s population. Even after reasonable extremist movements in
Canada, Sikhs have retained their power, respect and position in Canada in the arena of professional jobs
such as academicians and politicians as well as business (George & Chaze, 2015).
Describe how the service/initiative in the article helps to create a just and equal Canada,
using specific ideas from the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the Ontario Human Rights
Code, AND the Multiculturalism Act.
The new democrats and the progressive Canadians have made the provisions of nominating and
representing an immigrant community to come forward into the arena of politics so that their voice could
be heard. The provision for ethnic minorities in the government of Canada has been one of the reasons
why Canada is considered to be the most liberal, ethnically and linguistically diverse and least
xenophobic nation in North America (Guo & Wong, 2015).The most remarkable and outstanding
characteristics of Canada is that of “building bridges” between multiple cultures, religion and ethnicity,
surpassing all kinds of bigotry and ethnocentrism which marks Canada different from any other Western
nation or state which are often categorized to be racists and believers of white supremacy.