Launch of Canada Barometer International Association for the Study of Canada Jack Jedwab November 6,...

Launch of Canada Barometer International Association for the Study of Canada Jack Jedwab

November 6, 2008

The Survey commissioned by the Association for Canadian Studies and conducted by the firm Leger Marketing between September 9th and 11th, 2008 via web panel. Most questions were the same as those conducted for Eurobarometer in its survey ‘Discrimination in the European Union: Perceptions, Experiences and Attitudes’ Fieldwork February – March 2008 Publication July 2008

The launch of the survey results is designed to introduce a new series of surveys that the ACS will be conducting in partnership with Leger Marketing under the title the Canada Barometor that will be issued four times per year beginning this week and where possible will include international comparative data and analysis. The results will also be employed under the auspices of a second new initiative launched this week, the creation of the International Association for the Study of Canada (IASC)

A division of the Association for Canadian Studies (ACS), the International Association for the Study of Canada (IASC) is a think-tank that will promote bilateral and multilateral exchange of knowledge between Canada and other countries on issue of mutual concern and interest. It will pursue its mandate by organizing forums, generating publications and engaging in partnerships on social research

The Migrant Integration Policy Index (MIPEX) measures policies to integrate migrants in 25 EU Member States and 3 non-EU countries. It uses over 100 policy indicators to create a rich, multi-dimensional picture of migrants' opportunities to participate in European societies. MIPEX covers six policy areas which shape a migrant's journey to full citizenship. Results for Canada were provided by the ACS. Overall Canada ranked 6th on the index

Canada's anti-discrimination framework ranks third after Portugal and Sweden. It would attain best practice on definitions and concepts if the law forbade religious- and racially-motivated public insults. Canada reaches best practice on fields of application like 9 other MIPEX countries. The law protects victims from racial, ethnic, religious or nationality discrimination in employment, education, social protection, health, housing and other areas. Although enforcement mechanisms protect complainants from victimization and provide a wide range of sanctions, NGOs (specifically, legal entities with a legitimate interest in promoting equality) cannot bring forward a case without a specific victim, even for cases of systemic discrimination. Canada and SE are the only MIPEX country where equality policies have achieved best practice (see box).

% Widespread % Widespread Total Total Male Male Female Female

Gender Gender 47% 47% 38 38 5656

Language Language 57% 57% 5454 6060

AgeAge 4747 4040 5353

DisabilityDisability 5252 4444 5959

Religion Religion 6060 5353 6868

Sexual Orientation Sexual Orientation 6767 6262 7272

Ethnic Origin Ethnic Origin 7272 6868 7676

Skin Color Skin Color 7070 6666 7373

% Widespread% Widespread

CanadaCanada EU 27EU 27

GenderGender 47% 47% 3636

Language Language 57% 57% --

AgeAge 4747 4242

DisabilityDisability 5252 4545

Religion Religion 6060 4242

Sexual Orientation Sexual Orientation 6767 5151

Ethnic Origin Ethnic Origin 7272 6262

Skin Color Skin Color 7070 --

% Widespread % Widespread French French English English Other Other

Gender Gender 5454 4848 3636

Language Language 6666 5656 5252

AgeAge 4343 5252 3737

DisabilityDisability 5858 5757 3131

Religion Religion 7474 5656 5757

Sexual Orientation Sexual Orientation 7878 6868 5353

Ethnic Origin Ethnic Origin 8282 7171 6666

Skin Color Skin Color 8484 6868 6060

Ethnic Discrimination

Netherlands 79

Greece 76

France 76

Italy 76

Sweden 76

Denmark 75

Canada 72

Lithuania 28

Latvia 27

Poland 23

Sexual Orientation

Greece 73

Cyprus 72

Italy 72

Canada 67

Portugal 65

France 62

United Kingdom 50

Finland 49

Spain 48

Slovenia 46

Netherlands 45

Hungary 45

Romania 45

Age

Hungary 67

Czech Republic 58

Latvia 52

Portugal 51

Slovenia 49

United Kingdom 48

Greece 47

Canada 47

France 46

Italy 46

Religion

Denmark 62

Canada 60

France 57

United Kingdom 56

Italy 55

Netherlands 55

Belgium 53

Sweden 51

Greece 48

EU 42

Spain 41

Austria 41

Poland 27

Ireland 19

Gender

Spain 54

Sweden 50

Italy 49

Canada 47

France 46

Greece 44

Portugal 43

Hungary 38

United Kingdom 36

Czech Republic 36

EU 27 34

In the past 12 months I have personally experienced discrimination

Total French English Other

TOTAL Agree 29 39 27 21

Strongly Agree 10 17 9 6

Somewhat Agree 18 22 18 15

Total Disagree 65% 53 68 69

Somewhat Disagree 21% 28 17 15

Strongly Disagree 44% 26 51 45

In the past 12 months, I have witnessed someone being discriminated against or harassed


TOTAL Agree 41% 45 43 33

Strongly Agree 18% 20 19 13

Somewhat Agree 24% 25 25 20

Total Disagree 50% 46 50 54

Somewhat Disagree 20% 27 17 23

Strongly Disagree 29% 19 33 31


Total 18-24 25-34 35-44 45-54 55-64 65+

TOTAL 1-2 29% 42% 32% 33% 30% 24% 14%

Strongly agree

10% 11% 11% 13% 12% 9% 4%

Somewhat agree

18% 31% 21% 20% 18% 15% 10%

TOTAL 3-4 65% 50% 62% 59% 67% 70% 80%

I don't know

5% 7% 6% 7% 3% 5% 4%

Very widespread

Religion Sexual Orientation Ethnic Origin Racial Identification Age Gender Disability

18 to 2426,4% 27,0% 25,4% 35,4% 12,4% 10,1% 27,7%

25 to 2928,1% 31,5% 35,6% 33,7% 16,9% 15,9% 17,0%

30 to 3430,3% 27,6% 36,3% 32,7% 14,1% 14,6% 14,7%

35 to 3914,7% 26,9% 24,6% 26,7% 10,4% 16,5% 14,8%

40 to 4418,1% 18,8% 16,9% 17,4% 8,1% 8,8% 9,4%

45 to 4917,9% 13,3% 16,6% 17,1% 7,0% 7,0% 9,6%

50 to 5418,2% 22,4% 21,1% 27,0% 12,8% 15,0% 18,4%

55 to 5925,2% 16,1% 22,0% 20,3% 12,6% 9,3% 13,4%

60 to 6418,9% 17,8% 18,9% 17,0% 12,3% 7,5% 5,7%

65 years or older14,7% 19,3% 15,9% 16,5% 11,3% 5,3% 6,4%

Total20,6% 21,7% 22,5% 23,8% 11,5% 10,4% 13,5%


Strongly agreeVery

Widespread Fairly wide-

spread Fairly Rare Very Rare

Gender 19 39 30 11

Age 21 42 24 12

Religion 30 43.5 18 6

Sexual Orientation

38 46 12 2.5

Ethnic Origin

35

52

9.5

1.5

Racial Origin

43 4.5 8.5 1.5

I have friends or acquaintances that are of a different cultural or language background than mine

Age Language

Total 18-24 25-34 35-44 45-54 55-64 65+ French English Other

TOT 1-2

83% 90% 78% 86% 83% 82% 82% 67% 87% 89%

Strongagree-ment

59% 70% 60% 59% 58% 55% 53% 39% 61% 73%

Some-What agree

25% 19% 18% 27% 25% 27% 29% 28% 26% 15%

I am part of a linguistic, ethnic or racial minority

In the past 12 months I have personally

experienced discrimination

Strongly agree Somewhat agreeSomewhat disagree

Strongly disagree

Strongly agree 12,8% 8,7% 10,5% 10,5%

Somewhat agree 22,4% 28,3% 23,5% 15,4%

Somewhat disagree 23,0% 29,7% 36,6% 19,0%

Strongly disagree 37,2% 29,0% 22,9% 53,2%

I don't know 3,1% 3,6% 5,9% 1,8%

I prefer not to answer 1,5% ,7% ,7% ,2%

Total 100,0% 100,0% 100,0% 100,0%



Strongly agree Somewhat agreeSomewhat

disagreeStrongly

disagree

Strongly agree 13,8% 4,9% 4,4% 5,6%

Somewhat agree 19,4% 21,6% 13,2% 13,9%

Somewhat disagree16,7% 29,7% 35,1% 18,1%


I don't know 2,9% 5,1% 1,8% 4,2%

I prefer not to answer

1,0% ,5% 2,8%

Total 100,0% 100,0% 100,0% 100,0%

I am part of a linguistic, ethnic or racial minority



disagree Strongly disagree

Strongly agree 20,3% 14,4% 21,7% 17,2%

Somewhat agree 28,4% 28,1% 25,0% 23,9%



I don't know 5,1% 7,9% 5,3% 4,8%

I prefer not to answer

,5% 2,2% ,0%

Total 100,0% 100,0% 100,0% 100,0%




disagreeStrongly

disagree

Strongly agree 24,7% 8,1% 5,3% 12,7%

Somewhat agree 24,0% 29,6% 17,7% 19,7%



I don't know 6,0% 7,3% 3,5% 2,8%

I prefer not to answer ,3% ,3% 1,8% 2,8%

Total 100,0% 100,0% 100,0% 100,0%

Do you agree or disagree with the following statements? / I am part of a linguistic, ethnic or racial minority

English In the past 12 months I

have personally experienced discrimination


disagree Strongly disagree

Strongly agree 18,9% 11,9% 8,8% 8,3%

Somewhat agree 34,0% 32,8% 25,0% 14,2%



I don't know 3,8% 4,5% 1,2% ,5%

I prefer not to answer 5,7% 1,5% 1,2% ,3%

Total 100,0% 100,0% 100,0% 100,0%


In the past 12 months I have personally experienced discrimination French

Strongly agreeSomewhat

agreeSomewhat

disagreeStrongly

disagree

Strongly agree 29,9% 8,7% 6,4% 4,5%

Somewhat agree 28,3% 23,9% 8,5% 20,5%



I don't know 2,4% 10,9% 4,3% 6,8%

Francophones with ‘other’ friends more likely to have Experienced discrimination


English In the past 12

months I have personally experienced discrimination Strongly agree Somewhat agree Somewhat disagree Strongly disagree

Strongly agree12,5% 4,4% 3,7%

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Somewhat agree

18,5% 22,3% 14,8% 3,8%

Somewhat disagree

15,1% 21,8% 25,9% 11,5%

Strongly disagree

51,1% 48,9% 55,6% 84,6%

Strongly and SomewhatAgree…

Following do a good job of protecting human rights


The government of

Canada

62 50 66 66

My provincial government

62 60 64 59

The Human Rights Commission

59 63 59 56

The Police do a good job protecting our rights

66% 63% 66% 68%


The government of Canada does a good job of protecting human rights


disagreeStrongly

disagree

Strongly agree 10,5% 8,3% 6,8% 17,1%

Somewhat agree 38,6% 56,1% 57,3% 55,9%

Somewhat disagree31,8% 26,1% 23,0% 14,0%


I don't know 4,1% 4,2% 4,9% 4,1%

I prefer not to answer,4% ,3% 1,3% 1,4%

Total 100,0% 100,0% 100,0% 100,0%


The government of Canada does a good job of protecting human rights


disagreeStrongly disagree

Strongly agree 6,5% 8,3% 6,6% 15,3%

Somewhat agree 37,3% 47,5% 59,0% 55,6%



I don't know 5,9% 2,9% 3,5% 5,7%

I prefer not to answer ,7% ,4% ,3% 1,4%

Total 100,0% 100,0% 100,0% 100,0%

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