Canada consists of many citizens of various socioeconomic backgrounds through immigration. Immigration occurs when people leave their home country to live permanently in a new foreign country (Bloemraad, Korteweg, and Yurdakul 2008). Being a melting pot of different people is a characteristic that makes Canada unique.
The process that Canada currently uses to select its new incoming citizens is referred to as the point system. Based on the statements that apply to the individuals, they accumulate points that help determine the likelihood of the government accepting them as new Canadian citizens. The point system helps to ensure migrant success in Canada based on the skills they currently have and how they can contribute to the …show more content…
Instead of viewing education as a public good, the authors examined education as a product or a service that the country provides. Hence, Canada actively recruits and keeps international students that were educated in the country for its own gain and development (Johnstone and Lee 2014). By doing so, those educated international students would have higher points and a greater chance of becoming Canadian citizens. The article relates to the social phenomenon of increased educated immigrants demonstrating the strategy the state employs to benefit its own country. The country consists of institutions that provide knowledge and skills to students, who in return, are offered citizenship to stay in the country as residents and to utilize their acquired information in the society that originally supplied them with the knowledge back into the national labour …show more content…
Through the data collected, she was able to notice how the public was less accepting of immigrants during the recessions of the 1990s, as a result of people feeling threatened over their economic stability. With the question of whether there was a federal policy of multiculturalism, a graph shows increasing awareness from 1976 until the early 1990s when it dropped, but increased at the end of the decade, where 79% of Canadians stated there was a policy of multiculturalism in 2002. The article provides an explanation of the public view of multiculturalism in Canada, which was the federal policy. The standardization of multiculturalism accounted for the positive idea that it exists and it is also supported by fellow Canadians. By reinforcing multiculturalism, it has become a crucial societal value in Canada. Citizens of the country consider the multicultural policies to be positive, as they are able to see constructive results of multiculturalism (Dasko