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Immigration in Canada: In-Class Written Analysis ResponseEXEMPLARPart A:How did Canada’s immigration laws and policies during the post-war boom years of 1946-1970 highlight how the country wanted to be defined? Response:POSITION/TOPIC SENTENCE: Canada’s immigration laws and policies during the post-war boom years of 1946-1970 highlighted Canada as a nation wanting to define itself as an economic superpower on the world stage. After the war, many servicemen came back to Canada from war torn Europe ready to unlimited jobs and opportunities. Canada had work to do and jobs to offer. For this reason, immigration rates were higher than they had seen since 1910 and the post-Confederation nation building era (Chart 1, Statistics Canada, 2016). This boom in jobs opportunities also corresponded with the move away from agricultural based jobs in rural communities, to mechanized jobs in rural communities. Canada needed people who were skilled in these areas to take its economy to the next level yet did not have all the people it needed to do so within its own borders. Thus, Canada had to look outside its walls and to places where it had not previously looked. Although the majority of immigrants at this time were still from the British Isles, it is in this period where Canada, out of necessity, began to look to other areas of the world. Specifically, the 1950s saw the rise in immigration from Western Europe, Southern Europe and even Southern Asia (chart 5, Statistics Canada, 2016). More and more, Canada was diversifying, but not because it was a country that welcomed the diversity of individual people based upon ethnicity or religion, quite the contrary (Canadian Museum of Immigration, 2017). Canada needed a diverse and skilled labour force to meet the new economic demands. Much like was the case in the early years of agricultural work or laboring on the railway, Canada needed the workers, and seemingly only tolerated the diverse nature of the individuals that came along with it (CBC The National, 2014). Canada’s immigration policy during the boom years of 1946-1970 defined Canada as a nation striving for economy supremacy. ................
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