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A 5 page research paper that argues that Canada's political parties should do more to involve women and visible minorities. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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listed below. Citation styles constantly change, and these examples may not contain the most recent updates. Minority Involvement in Canadian Federal Political
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parties are the "central players in Canadian politics," as the federal political parties constitute the way in which "Canadians participate in national politics and view their democratic institutions" (Cross, 2009:
249). The Canadian Supreme Court has stated that the "accommodation of difference is the essence of true equality," and this premise lies at the heart of this political system (Kymlicka,
2009: 23). As this statement can be regarded as one of the foundational premises on which Canadas political system is based, it, briefly and succinctly, provides the main argument for
why the federal political parties should instigate strong steps designed to increase the number of women and visible minority candidates in Canada. The term "visible minority" is one
that appears frequently in Canadian political discourse. The term originates with the Employment Equity Act, which defines it as "all persons, other than Aboriginal peoples, who are non-Caucasian in race
and non-white in color" (Andrew, et al, 2008: 8). In other words, "visible minorities" includes "Chinese, South Asian, Black, Filipino, Latin American, Southeast Asian, Arab, West Asian, Japanese and Korean,"
as well as children of mixed heritage (Andrew, et al, 2008: 8). In other words, this term refers to immensely diverse nature of the contemporary Canadian population. While the percentage
of these minorities in the overall population is considerably, research shows that they are underrepresented in political office. In 2003, the Quebec governments Estates-General on the Reform of Democratic
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