{"id":11316,"date":"2016-09-19T20:01:32","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T20:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/immigrationca.staging.wpengine.com\/fr\/?p=11316"},"modified":"2016-09-19T20:02:18","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T20:02:18","slug":"canadas-election-message-xenophobia-unwelcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/canadas-election-message-xenophobia-unwelcome\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada\u2019s Election Message: Xenophobia is Unwelcome"},"content":{"rendered":"

Canada\u2019s recent federal election results prove that most Canadians reject the divisive policies of the conservatives, the former governing party, for its xenophobic policies.\u00a0 Canada was the first country in the world to introduce the 1971 Multiculturalism Policy.<\/p>\n

Although the backlash against multiculturalism has been less influential in Canada than in other European countries, it has not been altogether absent. It is most evident in Quebec, where the debate about \u201creasonable accommodation\u201d and the Quebec Charter of Values is long-standing \u2013 fuelled by a suspicion that multiculturalism has always been a tool to undermine Quebec\u2019s distinct status.<\/p>\n

\"Canada\u2019s<\/p>\n

According to an opinion poll commissioned last spring by the Privy Council Office, a significant majority of people surveyed across the country supported the requirement \u201cthat people show their face during Canadian citizenship ceremonies\u201d. Stephen Harper immediately seized this as a wedge issue and took a hard stand against the niqab. He asserted that his government, if re-elected, would consider banning public servants from wearing the facial covering and similar types of clothing.<\/p>\n

However, as other political party leaders made clear, many dislike niqabs.\u00a0 But if a Muslim woman freely chooses to wear one, it is no one\u2019s business. Multiculturalism is more than just a demographic reality. It is an important approach to ensure social integration. It recognizes that sometimes treating people as moral equals means allowing them to be different.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Canada\u2019s recent federal election results prove that most Canadians reject the divisive policies of the conservatives, the former governing party, for its xenophobic policies.\u00a0 Canada was the first country in the world to introduce the 1971 Multiculturalism Policy. Although the backlash against multiculturalism has been less influential in Canada than in other European countries, it…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":481,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4859,4893],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lactualite-canadienne","category-octobre-2015","category-4859","category-4893","description-off"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/481"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}