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However, the 1991 Census failed to include a question that explicitly asks for "race," despite formal consultation by Statistics Canada and considerable public attention to the issue. The 1996 Census asked a question on the country's visible minority population for the first time. Yet, during the 1996 Census collection, diverse blocks of public opinion threatened to perpetuate societal and statistical ambivalence about asking the question at all. The purpose of this paper is twofold: 1) to document the variations in the Canadian Census with regard to enumerating race; and 2) to show that such variations covary with changing conceptualizations of race and race relations.
Europe was clearly the source for such reinforcements, given King's announcement that Canada did not wish there to be, as a result of mass immigration, any fundamental alteration in the character of the Canadian population. However, in 1962 and in 1967 changes in Canadian immigration regulations opened the doors to non-European groups. These changes, later embodied in the Immigration Act, 1976, replaced the national origins criteria for admission with those emphasizing family reunification and labour market contribution.
How will majority white Canadians react, and will they be up to the demands of the situation? Will they continue to mould a pluralist, multiethnic and multiracial society? The challenges of the 21st century are many. Canadian governmental policy changed in the 1960s, when a Bilingualism and Biculturalism Commission was formed to face the Quiet Revolution in // l8 RACE AND RACISM Quebec. Canada got a new flag and was declared officially bilingual. In 1971 Pierre Trudeau declared Canada bilingual and multicultural, followed by changes in immigration laws favouring acceptance of more immigrants from the Third World, including many refugees.