Issue 1 (Historical)
A fee imposed on Chinese immigrants to Canada
What is the "Head Tax"?
The law created in response to the influx of immigrants coming to Canada in the early 1900’s
What is "The Immigration Act"?
A program created by the federal government that allows employers to hire foreign nationals on a temporary basis
What is the “Temporary Foreign Workers Program”?
A communication difficulty that many immigrants face when they first come to Canada
What is a “language barrier”?
A law enacted by the federal government which prohibited people of Chinese origin from entering Canada
What is the "Chinese Exclusion Act"?
The exact year the law (from the first question) was created
What is 1910?
The type of system that Canada uses to score immigrants and admit only those who meet a certain threshold score
What is “Point system immigration”?
The most diverse city in the world and the most linguistically diverse city in Canada
What is Toronto?
The exact cost of the fee imposed on Chinese immigrants to Canada at its peak
What is $500?
The continent where most of the immigrants in the early 1900’s came from
What is Europe?
Someone who is not a Canadian citizen but has been given the right to live in Canada indefinetely
What is a “Permanent resident”?
The approximate number of languages spoken in the city from the second question
What is 200 (languages)?
The cost of the fee imposed on Chinese immigrants when the law was initially enacted
What is $50?
Immigrants were required to do this when they moved to Canada so they "wouldn't be an economic burden."
What is paying a fee?
Unfair treatment against a specific group of people stemming from a subconscious prejudice against them
What is “Implicit discrimination”?
Many migrant workers are unaware of their labour rights in Canada due to this
what is lack of language accessibility?
The number of Chinese immigrants allowed to enter Canada between 1923 and 1947
What is 100 people?
The approximate number of newcomers who arrived in Canada between 1902 - 1914
What is 2.85 million people? (2 million or 3 million people works too)
The only international instrument specifically designed to protect the rights of migrant workers
What is the "United Nations International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families"?
Three of the top ten major non-official languages in the city from the second question
What is three of: Cantonese, Mandarin, Tagalog, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Tamil, Farsi, Russian or Korean?