Lecture 7

Question 1

What is meant by diversity?

Answer 1

Diversity refers to characteristics of individuals such as race, culture, ability, age, gender and sexual orientation and more importantly diversified ideas

Question 2

A society formed by diversified individuals is: (4)

Answer 2

more productive
more stable
more sustainable
less likely to become a hegemony (less likely to produce bad ideas like residential schools)

Question 3

The Charter of Rights entrenches the rights of three different specific populations in the Constitution:

Answer 3

The "founding peoples." - who are mainly French and British extraction. Positive, descriptive rights.  (for example, protestant and catholic denominational educational rights & English and French as official languages)
Indigenous Peoples (guaranteed collective rights under the Charter, but the rights guaranteed are "negative" ones, often involving non-interference rather than specific obligations of the state. (eg. Hunting, fishing, right to preservation of traditional language, cultures, ect.)
Other ethnic minorities, who are not specifically named, are protected only by negative, unspecified and undefined rights.

Question 4

Why was Canada’s social policy developed?

Answer 4

To redress specific inequalities (specifically relating to a family or individual’s ability to access income and resources)

Question 5

Canada’s original social policies regarding one’s ability to access income and resources were based on these two principles:

Answer 5

Ensuring that vulnerable populations do not fall below established level of quality of life (eg. LICO)
Acting to effect some redistribution of wealth from those with sufficient recourses to those in need.

Question 6

Until 1967, immigration was restricted to:

Answer 6

“preferred nations”, mainly northern & western Europe

Question 7

In 1967, a new liberalized immigration policy was established - no longer based on source country, but based on:

Answer 7

Characteristics of applicants

Question 8

The natural growth rate in Canada is:

Answer 8

Negative

Question 9

Difference between natural growth and population growth?

Answer 9

Natural refers to those born in Canada, population growth includes immigration.

Question 10

What is a “family class” immigrant?

Answer 10

Someone sponsored by relatives already established in Canada

Question 11

What is an economic immigrant?

Answer 11

An immigrant that fills workforce gaps. (does not include temporary foreign workers.) They come with skills, education, work experience and money.

Question 12

Most (53.3%) recent immigrants live in which province:

Answer 12

Ontario

Question 13

In 2002, Bill c-11 (Immigration & refugee Protection Act), permits 3 basic groups to enter Canada as permanent residents:

Answer 13

Economic, family class & refugees.

Question 14

What is a “convention” refugee?

Answer 14

a person who meets the refugee definition in the 1951 Geneva Convention relating to the Status of Refugees. To meet the definition, a person must be outside their country of origin and have a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion.

Question 15

What is a Refugee claimant or Asylum Seeker ?

Answer 15

a person who has fled their country and is asking for protection in another country. Those who pass screening are eligible for work permits and some provincial and municipal services.

Question 16

How many indigenous language families?

Answer 16

11

Question 17

How many First Nations governments or bands?

Answer 17

600

Question 18

The Indian Act 1876 marked the end of ______ and replaced it with ______.

Answer 18

Indian Self government & federal control over cultural, social, economic & political activities

Question 19

Explain the race to the bottom as it pertains to Indigenous Peoples and the government.

Answer 19

The longstanding disagreement and unwillingness of federal and provincial governments to accept responsibility for Indigenous People’s rights to wellbeing has led to fragmented, underfunded and poorer quality of services for Indigenous Peoples.

Question 20

When was same sex marriage legal in Canada?

Answer 20

2005

Question 21

World Health Organization (WHO) defines disablement as these three dimensions:

Answer 21

Impairment, disability and handicap

Question 22

Disabled & Handicapped committee articulated 3 goals:

Answer 22

Respect & dignity
Empowerment to participate in decision making about their lives and futures
Accommodations providing the means to participate

Question 23

Two basic approaches to disabilities have shaped social policy over the past decades:

Answer 23

THE BIOMEDIAL MODEL:
assumes that an individual “abnormality” can be prevented or improved through intervention
People with disabilities are positioned as “other” and then be considered as having little to contribute to society.
The goal with this approach is to live as “normally” as possible
A FOCUS ON SOCICAL AND ECONOMIC CONDITIONS that impede full participation in social, political and economic life
Focus on sites for state intervention, resulting in the adaption of social and physical environments that act as barriers to participation

Question 24

Social policy overlooks differences relevant to rural, northern and remote areas because it is:

Answer 24

Urban focused

Question 25

___ percent of Canada’s population occupies the North (80 percent of the land).

Answer 25

1%

Question 26

What are hinterland regions vulnerable to? (4)

Answer 26

Economically exploited for natural resources, surges in unemployment, poverty and the consequences of environmental damage when the resources are depleted or no longer valued