Making Middle-Class Multiculturalism

Patrice Dutil interviews Jennifer Elrick, professor of Sociology at McGill University and the author of Making Middle-Class Multiculturalism: Immigration Bureaucrats and Policymaking in Postwar Canada, published by the University of Toronto Press. The discussion covers the origins and intentions of the 1967 reforms in the Lester Pearson government. Elrick also discusses the particular roles of senior public servants in making key decisions on more contentious cases. Their decisions created a new Canada, one far more multicultural than ever before. This podcast was produced by Jessica Schmidt. If you like our work, please consider supporting it: https://bit.ly/support_WTY. Your support contributes to the Champlain Society’s mission of opening new windows to directly explore and experience Canada’s past.