Grade 11 - Origins and Experience: The History of a Canadian ethnic group

Charter of Rights and Freedoms

Analyse ways in which Canadian public policy and/or institutions reflect a recognition of challenges that have faced ethnic communities in Canada (e.g., with reference to the establishment of human rights legislation and commissions, apologies and compensation for the treatment of Chinese and Japanese Canadians, provisions in the Canadian Charter of Rights, anti–hate speech legislation, changes to immigration and/or refugee policy, Afrocentric schools)

Analyse ways in which some social, economic, and/or political issues, events, and/or developments at the provincial and/or local level in Canada have affected ethnic groups, including, where applicable, the selected ethnic group (e.g., Ontario legislation such as the 1951 Fair Employment Practices Act, 1950 amendments to the Conveyancing and Law of Property Act, or the 1962 Human Rights Code; the impact of the Parti Québécois on allophone and anglophone communities in Quebec; the impact of Bill 101 on ethnic communities in Quebec; the impact of Premier Davis’s decision to extend public funding for Catholic schools in Ontario; the creation of Afrocentric schools in some areas; the economic boom in Alberta; the adoption of a motion in the Quebec National Assembly to ban the kirpan). Sample questions: “How important was the establishment of the Ontario Human Rights Commission for ethnocultural minorities in this province?” “What impact has the recent growth of the economies of Saskatchewan or Alberta had on ethnic communities in Canada?”