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  2. Canadian Multiculturalism Act - Wikipedia

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    The preamble of the act declares that, WHEREAS the Constitution of 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 ...

  3. Multiculturalism in Canada - Wikipedia

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    Monument to Multiculturalism by Francesco Pirelli, in Toronto [1]. Multiculturalism in Canada was officially adopted by the government during the 1970s and 1980s. [2] The Canadian federal government is widely credited as the initiator of multiculturalism as a political initiative for managing diversity, rooted in constitutional liberalism, particularly due to the public emphasis on related ...

  4. Ethnic origins of people in Canada - Wikipedia

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    The 2020 General Social Survey revealed that 92% of adult Canadians said that "[ethnic] diversity is a Canadian value". [15] About 25% of Canadians were "racialized"; [2] By 2021, 23% of the Canadian population were immigrants—the "largest proportion since Confederation", according to Statistics Canada.

  5. Canadian ethnicity - Wikipedia

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    The decline in Canadian ethnic origin responses in 2021 is largely due to changes in the format of the ethnic origin question in the census. Each census questionnaire between 1996 and 2016 included a list of examples of ethnic origins to enter, all with "Canadian" as the first example listed, except in 1996 when it was the fifth example.

  6. Demographics of Canada - Wikipedia

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    Statistics Canada projects that visible minorities will make up between 38.2% and 43.0% of the total Canadian population by 2041, [77] [78] compared with 26.5% in 2021. [ 79 ] [ 3 ] Among the working-age population (15 to 64 years), meanwhile, visible minorities are projected to represent between 42.1% and 47.3% of Canada's total population ...

  7. Canada immigration statistics - Wikipedia

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    Since confederation in 1867 through to the contemporary era, decadal and demi-decadal census reports in Canada have compiled detailed immigration statistics. During this period, the highest annual immigration rate in Canada occurred in 1913, when 400,900 new immigrants accounted for 5.3 percent of the total population, [1] [2] while the greatest number of immigrants admitted to Canada in ...

  8. West Asian Canadians - Wikipedia

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    According to Statistics Canada, West Asian Canadians are considered visible minorities and can be further divided by nationality, such as Lebanese Canadian or Iranian Canadian. As of 2016, 1,011,145 Canadians had West and Central Asian geographical origins, constituting 2.9% of the Canadian population and 16.6% of Canada's Asian Canadian ...

  9. Section 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms

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    Under the heading of "Equality Rights" this section states: 15. (1) Every individual is equal before and under the law and has the right to the equal protection and equal benefit of the law without discrimination and, in particular, without discrimination based on race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, sex, age or mental or physical disability.