Evidence of Social Problem Outcome
The video below explains the voting rights that were given to Chinese-Canadian citizens after the repeal of the Chinese Immigration Act in 1947. Voting was one of the first major rights that were given to Chinese-Canadians after the repeal of the Act.
http://www.cbc.ca/archives/categories/politics/rights-freedoms/voting-in-canada-how-a-privilege-became-a-right/correcting-a-racial-injustice.html
http://www.cbc.ca/archives/categories/politics/rights-freedoms/voting-in-canada-how-a-privilege-became-a-right/correcting-a-racial-injustice.html
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Fig. 14: Table of Points System criteria.
The table to the left shows the criteria on which the 1967 immigration act bases immigrant qualifications on. Although this still leans slightly towards Anglo-Saxophone immigrants, with a large section of points being based on English skills, it is a very significant improvement over the complete exclusion 2 decades earlier.
Canada's Minister of Citizenship, the Honourable Jason Kenney, gives a speech on the importance of Chinese immigrants. In this speech, he lauded the bravery of Chinese-Canadians while fighting in World War 2, and also expressed how the repeal of the Immigration Act was a very important "historic achievement."
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The Canadian Multiculturalism Act states that "Canada provides that every individual is equal before and under the law and has the right to the equal protection and benefit of the law without discrimination and that everyone has the freedom of conscience, religion, thought, belief, opinion, expression, peaceful assembly and association and guarantees those rights and freedoms equally to male and female persons...and recognizes the importance of preserving and enhancing the multicultural heritage of Canadians." (9) This shows how Canada recognizes that it is important to not discriminate against any race.