Module 3: Immigration Policy

Question 1

20%

Answer 1

Percentage of Canadians born outside of its boarders

Question 2

Tactic political elite in Canada practiced to keep out non-Europeans (Indians)

Answer 2

The Canadian elite and politicians at the time argued that Indians were not a great fit to immigrate to Canada because of climate differences between Canada and India.
The elite argued that this would produce drastic cultural differences that would be problematic

Question 3

Why were non-Europeans seen as less appealing for immigration to Canada by the elite and officials

Answer 3

They were seen to be less likely to assimilate

Question 4

Today’s Canada’s immigration policy

Answer 4

Uses a points system that is universally applicable

Overt preference of ethnicity is unheard of

Question 5

African-American immigrants

Answer 5

Were given plots of land to farm that were less desirable than those given to white European immigrants