An ethnic coalition: the Liberal Party of Canada and the engagement of ethnocultural communities, 1959-1974

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dc.contributor.authorFalconer, Thirstan
dc.contributor.supervisorBryden, Penny
dc.date.accessioned2017-11-30T21:11:37Z
dc.date.copyright2017en_US
dc.date.issued2017-11-30
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Historyen_US
dc.degree.levelDoctor of Philosophy Ph.D.en_US
dc.description.abstractDuring the 1960s and 1970s the Liberal Party of Canada sought to engage ethnocultural communities in an effort to win federal elections. The author argues that the Liberal Party’s relationship with ethnocultural communities in Metro Toronto during the 1960s was characterized by indifference. Though it adopted a programme that encouraged the courting of ethnocultural communities, the Pearson-led Liberal Party showed limited interest in recognizing ethnocultural communities as a part of the party’s electoral coalition. The efforts of Andrew Thompson, the Liberal Party’s Ethnic Liaison Officer during the Pearson years, were separated from the rest of party’s organization and campaign structure. Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau ended Pearson’s lost decade and strengthened party bonds with ethnocultural communities. Trudeau welcomed ethnocultural communities to the Liberal Party, declared Canada as multicultural, and distributed patronage to leaders of non-English and non-French communities. This dissertation differentiates between groups and categories, and critically analyzes how people and organizations do things with categories. This dissertation argues that Thompson and the Liberal Party grouped ethnocultural communities as “ethnic groups” and “ethnic voters” in order to simplify diverse and unbounded peoples they did not understand.en_US
dc.description.embargo2019-10-27
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/8821
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectCanadaen_US
dc.subjectPolitical Historyen_US
dc.subjectLiberal Party of Canadaen_US
dc.subjectEthnicityen_US
dc.subjectMulticulturalismen_US
dc.subjectHistoryen_US
dc.subjectAndrew Thompsonen_US
dc.titleAn ethnic coalition: the Liberal Party of Canada and the engagement of ethnocultural communities, 1959-1974en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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