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History of Canada

Introduction

The history of Canada has gone through various events, some of which produced a nightmare for the country and from which the people as well as the leaders are still trying to awake, while making sure that such events do not take place ever again. In this paper, the case of Canadian Aborigines, the legal case of Chaoulli v. Québec and language politics will be studied that have had a profound effect on Canadian history. People who belong to Aboriginal groups have been disappearing from Canada due to lack of facilities being provided to them as they heavily rely on farming and agriculture but unfortunately Government in every era has utterly disappointed them by reducing their means of resources in forms of lands, farming and agricultural based activities, which are only dependent on healthy forest environment. These groups have also been treated unfairly with respect to language status due to political manipulations. The establishment of private and public health care systems also proved to be threatening due to the emergence of insurance facilities availed by Quebecers.

Discussion

Rights of Aborigines

Aborigines left a profound mark on the history of Canada. First, their involvement and then their exclusion from the country was a nightmare for the leaders of that time. These initial nations of Canada including Inuit and Metis were considered as significant figures of that time as they actually formed the cultural and social base for Canada and created its unique Identity. Although their population was small, they exploited a territory larger than these figures indicate. The majority of Canada's First Nations lived by hunting and gathering, a lifestyle that caused the intensive use of resources and a continuous movement in search of new territories to exploit. Near the time of the war of 1812, the main concern of administrators responsible for the Aboriginals was to "civilize" the nomadic hunters by making them farmers (Todd, pp. 10-16). In addition, European immigration had become an invasion, so much so that in 1812, according to some estimates, the Indians of Upper Canada (Ontario) accounted for only 10 percent of the population. From 1850, the designation of lands reserved for the Indians became a milestone treaty; now there are 2300 reserves scattered across Canada. This additional operation led to the disappearance of the herds. At the end of the 19th century, they were no more than a memory, and the Indians were starving. Around the same time, excessive hunting especially of whales and walruses severely reduced food resources for the Inuit (Mainville, n.d.).

Chaoulli v. Québec

In a decision that shook the whole Canada, the Supreme Court allowed Quebecers to contract private insurance to pay for medical care provided by the private sector. This decision opened the door to the creation of a parallel system of health (Maioni and Manfredi, pp.52-56), while a single health care system has been since the 1950s central to Canadian history. In Quebec, the use of this type of insurance was previously prohibited by the Health ...