The Racial Institutionalisation of Whiteness in Contemporary Canadian Public Policy

Delores V. Mullings

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The Racial Institutionalisation of Whiteness in Contemporary Canadian Public Policy

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Pages:: 335–343

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9781848881051_033

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Canada is recognised as the forerunner of Western multiculturalism, the first Western country to implement a national multiculturalism policy. Alongside the concept of multiculturalism, Canada has strong human right policies when compared with many other countries where citizens are routinely jailed, beaten or murdered for minor infractions or merely opposing the ideas of ruling parties. However, the demographic composition of historical and contemporary Canada is significantly different; there is an increasing racialised population. This demographic change has exacerbated racial tension while exposure of white-dominated processes and the conceptualisation of white hegemonic disposition in Canadian public policies and institutions. Therefore, white supremacy is maintained through public policies and the normalisation of institutional values based on the ethos of whiteness. The white racialisation of employment, the implementation of ‘diversity’ and the perpetuation of ‘otherness’ through systemic racial discrimination are functions and tools of exclusionary practices that are aligned with the maintenance of whiteness. These processes ultimately support the over-representation of whiteness in public spaces, distort collective realities and racialised representation, and thus render racialised people invisible. This chapter discusses two aspects of whiteness in contemporary Canada: employment discrimination and human rights redress mechanisms in the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal adjudication process. This chapter provides government statistics to substantiate the claim of institutional racial discrimination and demonstrates how public policies designed and implemented to reduce racial discrimination actually uphold the status quo and protect the foundation of whiteness in Canada.

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