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Critical Analysis Directions Purpose: the purpose of this Critical Analysis assignment is to offer you an opportunity to connect current events in Canada with Canadian history. You will apply the experience you have already gained in this course to conduct research and connect that research with our course content. You will also apply the experience you have already gained in this course to use the APA@Conestoga format for creating in text citations and a references page to show your research and your use of course content. Instructions: · On October 21, 2019 there was a general federal election in Canada. The election campaign officially began on September 11, 2019. Using a variety of sources (listed below), research one of the election issues (listed below) to trace how it was discussed and debated during the election. You may find it helpful to extend your research back to the earlier months of 2019 in terms of your research on the current day election discussions and debates. · Next, research the history of your chosen election issue using the online Canadian Encyclopedia. You can access it here: https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en. · Review our course content in order to connect your chosen election issue and the history of that issue you discovered in your encyclopedia research to specific course content. · You will be asked to answer specific questions (see below). Write your assignment in essay format, using carefully edited sentences and paragraphs, following APA@Conestoga format for essays such using Arial font, size 12, double spacing, headings and sub-headings etc. · Number each answer to match the questions and use headings and subheadings in your essay to identify where you are answering each of the specific questions. · You do not need an overall introductory paragraph or a concluding paragraph. · Your essay should be 4-5 double spaced pages of the actual paragraphs answering the questions. This page count does not include your title page or references page. · Use as many paragraphs as you need to answer each question, keeping in mind the page parameters and the rubric expectations. · You will be marked on thoroughly answering all questions, showing that you made clear links to our course content and conducted appropriate research. Do not rely on long direct quotes directly from our course content or from your research. Instead, answer the questions in your own words, showing you read and understood the course content and the research you conducted and that you have carefully reflected on the materials. Consider that paraphrasing and sparing use of very short direct quotes can be much more effective than long direct quotes. But remember that even when you put things in your own words, you still need in text APA@Conestoga citations. · When you mention, paraphrase or quote content from our course or from your research you WILL need APA@Conestoga in text citations. At the end of your essay, on a separate page, you will need an APA@Conestoga formatted References page where you will list all the sources you used, listing each source once. Divide your References page into two sections- Course Resources and Outside Resources. See resources under Content- “APA@Conestoga Resources” in the table of contents for how to format your in-text citations and your references page entries. · See the Rubric for the Critical Analysis Assignment for further guidelines on how to be successful in this assignment. Note: please add paragraph or page number for in text citation (APA@ Conestoga in text citation) and connect the course content in unit 4 B: with the encyclopedia research. Election Issues: (choose one) a. Indigenous peoples (many possible issues here- be specific) b. Trade c. Immigration d. Quebec e. Religious Tolerance f. Federal/Provincial relations g. Transportation h. Multiculturalism i. Relationship with United States j. Environment/Natural Resources k. Military Suggested Research Sources: (use as many of these as you wish, striving for balanced and broad research) Some of the online newspaper/magazine sources are increasingly "hiding" content unless you are a subscriber. You are NOT expected to pay for access to resources for assignments. · Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) https://www.cbc.ca/news · The Globe and Mail newspaper https://www.theglobeandmail.com/ (you may find some articles/links are “locked” for paid subscribers only, but there is still a large amount of freely accessible articles here that will help with your research). · The Toronto Star newspaper https://www.thestar.com/ (you may find some articles/links are “locked” for paid subscribers only, but there is still a large amount of freely accessible articles here that will help with your research). · Maclean’s Magazine https://www.macleans.ca/ · The National Observer https://www.nationalobserver.com/ · Global News https://globalnews.ca/tag/federal-election-2019/ · CTV News https://www.ctvnews.ca/ · National Post https://nationalpost.com/ · Our library has an excellent database of newspapers/magazines which you can access here. https://lib.conestogac.on.ca/PressReaderLogin Critical Analysis Questions: 1. Current Day Issue- Identify your chosen election issue from the list above. Explain, using your research, how this issue was discussed and debated throughout the election. Show a broad spectrum of perspectives—not just what the election candidates had to say but other voices as well. You WILL need APA@Conestoga in text citations to your research material in this answer. 2. History- Explain, using your research in the online Canadian Encyclopedia, the HISTORY of your chosen election issue. You can access it here: https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en. Provide both an overall historical context and specifics on the history to your particular election issue. You WILL need APA@Conestoga in text citations to your encyclopedia research in this answer. 3. Analysis- Link your chosen election issue to specific course content (units and topics within units)—how does specific course content help you understand this current election issue better? Be direct and specific. Explain how your election issue has changed over time- linking both course content and your encyclopedia history research. Argue why a careful understanding and analysis of the history of your election issue is important for Canadian voters. You WILL need APA@Conestoga in text citations to any materials you use in this answer such as your encyclopedia research, election coverage research, course content. Unit 4 Part B: Social Challenges: Immigration and Labour (Course Content) Immigration Policy before 1945 Canadian immigration policy was restrictive until well after the end of the Second World War. The first Immigration Act, adopted by the federal government in 1869, was designed to be flexible, allowing politicians to determine policy by discretionary means. Until after the Second World War, governments considered that immigration should further the country’s economic growth and its essentially British character. This meant that white Europeans were welcome but others, such as Chinese and East Indians, were not. This led to barriers such as a Chinese head tax equivalent to the annual wage of a white labourer and direct-passage regulations for East Indians at a time when no ships sailed directly from India to Canada. When hostilities ceased in 1945, Canadian immigration regulations remained unchanged from the pre-war era. Restrictions were still in place, and the doors were still closed to most of the world. Nor was there any great wave of public pressure in favour of immigration of any kind, even from Western Europe. With the end of wartime industrial production and the demobilization of those in uniform, many feared that Canada would slip back into a 1930s-like depression with no room for job-hungry immigrants. But the problem was a shortage of goods not money and, equally important, a shortage of labour not jobs. Watch the videos below and read the linked article Canada: A People's History - Strangers Within Our Gates (below is a video transcript) Winnipeg: the largest city in the west…. Chicago of the north. Charlie Chaplin appears at the Walker, Groucho Marx at the Bijou. By 1911 Winnipeg has the highest percentage of foreign-born residents of any city in Canada. Most crowd into the “North End”, north of the CPR tracks- the “Foreign Quarter”. Conservative Member of Parliament Dr. Thomas Sproule, leader of the Protestant Orange Order voices a common concern. SPROULE: Canada is today the dumping ground for the refuse of every country in the world. Henri Bourassa, leader of the French-Canadian Nationalists once welcomed the immigrants. But not anymore. BOURASSA: It was never in the minds of the founders of this nation ...that one day Canada would become a land of refuge for the scum of all nations. To such an extent that our two founding races would be drowning amidst a flood of intruders. But there are new sounds coming from the pulpit. James Shaver Woodsworth is a Methodist minister – the son of prairie missionaries. He feels it is his duty to improve the conditions of these new immigrants… WOODSWORTH: Ignorance of the language, low standards of living, incompetency, drunkenness, and other evils are … producing conditions as bad as are to be found in the slums of the great cities. Woodsworth preaches the Protestant Church’s new ‘Social Gospel’ which strives for the “Kingdom of God on Earth”. WOODSWORTH: The effort must be not merely to preach to the people, but to educate them and to improve their entire social conditions. Woodsworth moves his young family to the North End – to The All Peoples Mission. His goal he believes is noble – ‘assimilation.’ WOODSWORTH: Our Problem is to Canadianize and Christianize these people. It is a herculean task and we have not begun to appreciate its magnitude or importance much less plan for its accomplishments. For Woodsworth language is the key – The All People’s Mission organizes English kindergartens. He raises funds for a permanent school and starts evening classes for working adults to learn English. WOODSWORTH: If Canada is to become in any real sense a nation, if our people are to become one people, we must have one language. Hence the necessity of national schools where the teaching of English – Our National language – is compulsory. Woodsworth gets to know his neighbours. WOODSWORTH: John Klenbyel and wife and six children, and from 15 to 20 boarders live in four rented rooms. The place is beastly dirty! WOODSWORTH: Michael Yak off and his wife are Russians …Peter, the oldest boy, eight years old, has to go out along the streets and lanes where he can find sticks of wood, empty barrels, for which he gets a few cents to help keep the family. Of course, he does not go to school. In 1909, after two years working and living in the ‘North End’, Woodsworth publishes his views on immigration. Strangers Within Our Gates. Instead of simply teaching his neighbours…. he has learned from them. WOODSWORTH: What does the ordinary Canadian know about our immigrants. He classifies all men as “white men” and “foreigners”. The “foreigners” he thinks of as the men