"The Making of the Mosaic"

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This paper examines the book by N. Kelly and M. Trebilcock, "The Making of the Mosaic: A History of Canadian Immigration Policy". In particular, it looks at how the title stresses how a metaphorical attitude of a nation in shaping its immigration policy can formulate the way regional and ethnic diversity in the nation is viewed by the nation's population and political apparatus over historical time.

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"Another metaphor, more often used in Canada, is the metaphor of the country as a mosaic. Walk onto any street in Toronto in the Chinatown district and see street signs in Mandarin or Cantonese with no English characters in sight. The existence of Quebec, a French-speaking province that is one of the Canadian nation's economic and tourist powerhouses as well as a potent site of political division, is another powerful testimony to Canada's existence as a functional, or at least semi-functional mosaic of ethnic, regional, and even linguistic diversity. As noted in the "introduction" to this text, its metaphorical concept of immigration is key to any nation's view of its potential for positive forms of diversity."

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