Multiculturalism failure in Canada

I’m really surprised no one is talking about this in Canada (well, maybe not).  Visible minority unemployment is higher in Canada than in the United States. Statistics Canada reported unemployment by race for the first time ever in 2020.  The table below compares Canada to the United States (Bureau of Labor) for July 2020.

“Men and women of all races are born with the same range of abilities.  But ability is not just the product of birth.  Ability is stretched or stunted by the family that you live with, and the neighborhood you live in – by the school you go to and the poverty or the richness of your surroundings.  It is the product of a hundred unseen forces playing upon the little infant, the child, and finally the man”  (President Lyndon Johnson, Commencement address of Howard University, June 4, 1965).

The United States, a melting pot, commenced desegregation in an effort to end separation of groups with respect to schools, housings and neighborhoods.  Canada did the opposite six years later on October 8, 1971.  Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau instituted official multiculturalism, in effect encouraging segregation by neighborhoods, housing and schools.  And major Canadian metropolitan areas became a patchwork of segregated neighborhoods (schools and housing). 

Fifty years later, if unemployment levels dictate your school, housing and neighborhood, it appears the Canadian policy failed.

copyright: jimosophy inc