Topic: Eliminating Racism
Country: Canada
Delegate Name: Natalie Downs
School: Forest Hills Central High School
Topic page: background guide and all position papers All Canada position papers GLIMUN 2009 committees
1.Canada has been promoting multiculturalism since the 1960’s. The Canadian Charter of Rights encourages equality among all people, and supports integration among Canadian citizens. Twenty-six percent of Canada’s population consists of mixed backgrounds, compared to the United States whose population is only made up of 1.61% of mixed races. Preferential hiring does exist in Canada; this is done in order to create a multiracial working environment in order to overcome racial stereotypes. Racism causes many problems among people; the biggest forms of racism can lead to genocides. But segregation is also a major problem around the world where people of minority races are given lower quality health care and other services simply because of their race.
2.Canada believes that racism must be ended throughout the world, and one way to do that is through teaching people to be accepting of others. One way of doing this is encouraging preferential hiring throughout businesses. This may seem racist but the hope is by introducing employees into a working environment of multiple races people begin to realize that a person’s worth is not based upon the color of their skin. Because of this Canada hopes that the United Nations will support their desire to spread preferential hiring. Canada also hopes that the United Nations will work towards ending segregation, particularly in the case of health care.
3.Canada hopes for most developed countries to support their efforts in ending racism. This is because most developed countries have rights of equality for their own people. Countries like the United States along with Canada grant all people equality and because of that they encourage equality for all people of every nation.
4.Countries who are most likely not to support Canada are countries that are considered the least developed. This is because many lesser-developed African countries tend to be run by wealthy officials. Because of this many high quality services are out of reach to the people because it is not affordable. However, officials who benefit from their wealth have no interest in improving their countries if the change could take a hit upon their lifestyles.
