The College of Political Science at the University of Baghdad discussed the ph.D thesis entitled “Managing societal diversity in Canada and Quebec as a model.”
By the student “Ali Abdul Muttalib Sadiq”
The thesis explained the state’s tasks in managing societal diversity to reach the highest levels of political and societal stability. Perhaps the state’s adoption of the federal form and consensual democracy had a positive impact in containing the sub-discrepancies and conflicting manifestations between the components of society, and this is what Canada, which was originally founded on the basis of a federal union, worked on. Between the provinces of Upper Canada, which has an English majority, and Lower Canada, which has a French majority, and in implementation of the recommendations of the British (Durham), the Governor-General of the British colonies in Canada, through the issuance of the Canadian Confederation Act of 1840 AD, and in accordance with the provisions of the British North America Act, Canada was later formed from a union of four provinces linked to the British Crown. In the form of a self-union organized by the Constitutional Act of 1867 AD, which is considered the founding sponsor of Canada in a federal union consisting today of ten provinces with self-administration and broad powers, with three regions supervised by the federal government. The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which was included in the constitutional package of the Constitutional Law of 1982 AD, constituted the first comprehensive statement establishing Human values and democratic rights, and that Canada is a country consisting mainly of two nationalities, English and French, and has two official languages, English and French.
The province of Quebec, which has a French majority and a Francophone culture, feels that treating it as a minority within the framework of federal Canada, which has an English majority and an Anglophone culture, is a devaluation of its political importance and cultural value. This is completely unacceptable to it and a confiscation of its historical and logical right to be treated distinct from the rest of Canada, as it is one of the founders of the federation. The Canadian party is on parity with the English party, and we must proceed to prove that entitlement, even if that requires secession from Canada.
At the end of the discussion, the researcher was awarded a phd degree with a grade of “very good.” We wish all our dear students good luck and success
