Aboriginal Peoples and Multicultural Reform in Canada

This article discusses the multicultural policies in Canada and their impact on Aboriginal people. It highlights the insufficiency of sui generis rights and the need for syncretic multiculturalism. The article covers topics such as the failure of formal equality policies, the recognition of sui generis rights, colonial multiculturalism, demographic changes, and syncretic multiculturalism. The author argues that syncretic multiculturalism promotes a common constitution that provides equal rights to all Canadian people.

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Table of Contents

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Question 1........................................................................................................................................3
Question 2........................................................................................................................................3
Question 3........................................................................................................................................3
Question 4........................................................................................................................................3
Question 5........................................................................................................................................3
Question 6........................................................................................................................................4
Question 7........................................................................................................................................4
References........................................................................................................................................5

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Question 1
The formal equality of the multicultural policies was not able to cover the sui generis
rights of the Aboriginal people that increase dissatisfaction among such people. Moreover, they
also failed in addressing the social, economic as well as political inequalities between the
Aboriginal and settler population that force them to oppose the aspect of Canadian
Multiculturalism.
Question 2
According to this article, the sui generis rights of the aboriginal people are insufficiently
recognized. It is the right of Aboriginal people to protect their traditional culture and equally
treated by the Shognosh people in the working environment or in any place. They have a right to
using the Aboriginal title to the land as well as its resources. They have a mobility right in which
they are free to live and work at any place they choose, enter and live the country freely. Official
language rights as well as Minority Language Educational Rights with multiculturalism
((MacDonald, 2014).
Question 3
British and French are considered as two founding nations of Canada.
Question 4
The colonial multiculturalism is fundamental to believe that the entire citizen in the
country is treated to be equal. The entire citizen can keep their identities as well as can take pride
in their ancestry that has a sense of belongings. The immigrants are free to adopt their

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distinctiveness and will be treated them equal and with full of respects that help in developing a
common attitude towards the country ((MacDonald, 2014).
Question 5
In recent, the demographics of Canada have changed at a greater level. Most of the
population are covered by abnormal peoples that increased to 4 % of the total population as well
as a number of other immigrants from Asia, the Caribbean and the Americas have also been
increased. The population of Europeans Shognosh is now covering under the categories of
minorities that had a population of 46 % in the past. Some of the aboriginal people represent as
racialized minorities that include in new settler who are living on the confiscate the lands of
Aboriginal and continuing the project of colonial ((MacDonald, 2014).
Question 6
It is the term which in comparative religion that majorly refers to the process of a mixture
of religious assorted blending of the beliefs and faith. It represents an aspect of the religious
interaction over time. It implies the mutual respects and understanding that help in exchanging
the values and belief in an effective manner. The syncretic multiculturalism does not concentrate
on the integration of the Aboriginal people in respect to the spiritual, cultural and language
background but majorly focus on creating one society where all the cultures enjoy equal rights
(MacDonald, 2014).

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Question 7
The syncretic multiculturalism changes the integration process of newcomers as well as
change the way of thinking for Abnormal and Shognosh people in a various manner. These are
explained in below points:
 The bonding and relationship between the Crown and Aboriginals exaggerated under the
new syncretic multiculturalism that promoted the creation of a common constitution that
helps in providing equal rights equal rights to the Canadian people.
 One of the assumptions has been developed under the syncretism that all the Canadian
population with including newcomers should uphold the values, belief as well as the
tradition of both Aboriginal and Shognosh (MacDonald, 2014).

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References
MacDonald, D. (2014). Aboriginal Peoples and Multicultural Reform in Canada: Prospects for a
New Binational Society." Canadian Journal of Sociology/Cahier Canadiens de
Sociologie, 65-72