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1979-1980:
60, 000 refugees from Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia allowed into Canada.

Identify force causing change: Changing demographics

Explain:
During this time, Canada was seeing more immigration which led to the changing of demographics, thus causing Canadians to be more open to others

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2010:
Canada signed Rights of Indigenous people.

Identify force causing change: Attitudes of society

Explain:
The progressivism found in Canada led to a change in the attitudes of people, thus leading to Canada to sign the Rights of Indigenous people

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2017:
PM Trudeau apologizes to Residential School survivors after PM Harper did so in 2008..

Identify force causing change: Attidues of society

Explain:
Canada grew more apologizing towards Indigenous people after years of abuse

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2006:
Government apologizes for Chinese Head Tax

Identify force causing change: Attitudes of society

Explain:
2006 was already a time that could be considered as more progressive. Thus, a change in the aittudes of people was seen

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1960:
First Nations people get right to vote..

Identify force causing change: Attitudes of society

Explain:
During this time, it was also the rise of the civil rights movements in the United States, which most likely contributed to a change in the attitudes seen in Canadian society

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2010:
81% of 18-24 year olds hear racist comments especially in B.C., Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba..

Identify the injustice: Stereotyping + Labelling

Concepts of justice:
The law must not discriminate on the basis of irrelevant characteristics

Explain:
Racist comments are discriminatory by nature. In this case, these racist comments most likely refer to irrelevant characteristics such as religion, race, and ethnicity

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2010:
Hate crimes against visible minorities on the rise.

Identify the injustice: Stereotyping + Labelling

Concept of justice:
The law must not discriminate on the basis of irrelevant characteristics

Explain:
Hate crimes are discriminatory by nature, and in this case target minorities most likely because of irrelevant characteristics such as race, ethnicity, and religion

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2009:
Tamil refugees detained on Vancouver Island on suspicion of terrorism.

Identify the injustice: Stereotyping + Labelling

Concept of justice: The law must not discriminate on the basis of irrelevant characteristics

Explain:
The Tamil refugees were labelled as terrorists merely because they were refugees, and most likely of a different race.

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2005:
B.C. Sikh soccer player barred from playing with turban.

Identify the injustice:
Forced assimilation

Concept of justice:
The law must not discriminate on the basis of irrelevant characteristics

Explain:
The Sikh soccer player under discussion is being discriminated against by being subject to forceful assimilation

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2003:
Racial slurs between teens led to the death of Jomar Lanot in B.C.

Identify the injustice: Stereotyping + Labelling

Concept of justice: The law must not discriminate on the basis of irrelevant characteristics

Explain:
Racial slurs are discriminatory by nature.

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2001:
Bill C-36 the Anti-Terrorism Law creates racial profiling at border crossing and airports.

Identify the injustice: Stereotyping + Labelling

Concept of justice: The law must not discriminate on the basis of irrelevant characteristics

Explain:
The consequence of Bill C-36, racial profiling, is done on the basis of an irrelevant characteristic: race

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1947:
Italian-Canadians and German-Canadians considered enemy aliens until this year.

Identify the injustice: Stereotyping + Labelling

Concept of justice: The law must look at extenuating circumstances

Explain:
Although during time Canada was facing Italy and Germany in war, the Italians and Germans found in Canada were most likely ones who fled their country in search for peace, and not spies or agents.

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1942:
Japanese-Canadians are interned and their possessions are confiscated.

Identify the injustice: Unlawful internment

Concept of justice: The law must not discriminate on the basis of irrelevant characteristics

Explain:
To intern Japanese-Canadians unlawfully, and have their possessions be confiscated all merely because they are Japanese is to discriminate on the basis of an irrelevant characteristic: their ethnicity

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1939:
Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi Germany forbidden to immigrate to Canada.

Identify the injustice: Denial of entry

Concept of justice: The law must not discriminate on the basis of irrelevant characteristics

Explain:
For Jewish refugees to be denied entry merely because they are Jewish is to discriminate on the basis of an irrelevant characteristic: their religion.

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1914:
376 Indians on board of the Komagatu Maru denied entry into Canada.

Identify the injustice: Denial of entry

Concept of Justice:  The law must not discriminate on the basis of irrelevant characteristics

Explain:
To deny the Indians on board of the Komagatu Maru merely because they are Indian is an act that discriminates on the basis of an irrelevant characteristic: their ethnicity

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1895:
Asians prohibited from voting in British Columbia.

Identify the injustice: Denial of voting rights

Concept of justice: The law must not discriminate on the basis of irrelevant characteristics

Explain:
To deny Asians the right to vote in British Columbia is to discriminate merely because they are Asian.

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1885:
Chinese Immigration Act established a head tax of $500 if a Chinese man wanted to immigrate to Canada.

Identify the injustice: Denial of entry

Concept of justice: Justice must be impartial

Explain:
Other immigrants, predominantly European, did not need to pay a head tax and were thus not subject to the same treatment. In other words, the law was not impartial

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1884:
Potlatch banned. This is a feast among Indigenous people where possessions are given away to display wealth or enhance prestige.

Identify the injustice: Forced assimilation

Concept of justice: Justice must be impartial

Explain: The fact that only the Indigenous had traditional practices banned shows the lack of impartiality.

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1876
Indian Act and Residential Schools: Indigenous children separated from families to go to school where they are made to learn English, abandon their religious beliefs. They experience abuse at hands of their teachers.

Identify the injustice: Forced assimilation

Concept of justice: The law cannot discriminate based on irrelevant characteristics

Explain:
To separate Indigenous children from their parents and forcefully try to assimilate them is an injustice as the indigenous population was subject to discrimination based on irrelevant charcteristics: their ethnicity.

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1872
Indigenous people and Chinese-Canadians forbidden to vote.

Identify the injustice: Denial of voting rights

Concept of justice: The law cannot discriminate on the basis of irrelevant characteristics

Explain: The denial of voting rights is not in alignment with the fundamental concepts of justice, and is therefore an injustice. To deny Chinese-Canadians and Indigenous people the vote to right is discriminatory by nature.

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1749
Enslaved Africans arrive in Canada.

Identify the injustice: Segregation

Concept of justice:
The law must not discriminate on the basis of irrelevant characteristics

Explain:
Africans who arrived in Canada were discriminated against on the basis of the colour of their skin.