The Pros And Cons Of Multiculturalism In Canada

Canada is a country that is built on people that emigrated from different parts of the world. The policy of multiculturalism in Canada was introduced during 1970’s to make sure people don’t feel obliged to get rid of their identity on entry to Canada (Howard, 1998, p. 133). Canada has a long history of how its immigration policies came to being. Canadian citizenship and began over a hundred years ago with all manners of racism and legal exclusions. However immigration and citizenship policies have since changed and somewhat upgraded since then, in 1982 Canadian leaders introduced the charter of rights and freedoms, the Multiculturalism policy in 1971, and Multiculturalism Act in 1988 to reshape our nations religious, ethnic and cultural beliefs and making it more diverse (Joppke, 2012, p. 855). People can acquire citizenship in three ways by descent, by birth and by naturalization (Macklin & Crepeau, 2010). Immigrants are chosen on different entry categories and variations in the point system (Grant & Sweetman, 2004). In this article we also look at the difference between Canadian citizenship policy and the UK policy to determine the advantages and disadvantages in both (Paquet, 2012). In Conclusion, we will see how one can acquire a Canadian citizenship; we will look at the policies in Canada and the UK and determine which ones better and we will also look at some of the issues in Canadian immigration policy.
Canada is a nation full of biological strangers. It is composed of individuals and families who immigrated during their own lifetime or their ancestors that immigrated to Canada. They all had one thing in common, everyone that immigrated to Canada had to attain a permanent resident status or attain a Canadian citizenship ...

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...ms (Macklin & Crepeau, 2010). People can also acquire a multiple citizenship from Canada through birth or naturalization (Macklin & Crepeau, 2010). There are three issues that arise from Canadian immigration policy, first of all most immigrants settle in the cities therefore not helping the development of rural areas, demographic characteristics of immigrants have changed hence leading to more discrimination in the labour market and thirdly labour market outcomes have been decreasing ( Grant & Sweetman,2004). Some of the immigration policies also affect our economy in various ways. Therefore, some of the Canadian immigration policies do need to be changed such as the point system where they mostly prefer the skilled workers but it is also extremely difficult to get an ideal policy that Canada could follow due to the vast number of immigrants already in the country.