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In 1965, sociologist John Porter selected class, race, ethnicity, and time of immigration to Canada as variables and performed a statistical analysis based on census information collected by Statistics Canada over several decades (Porter 1965). Based on his findings, he described Canadian society as a vertical multicultural mosaic.
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Sium, B. (2014). Parent Involvement in Education. In: How Black and Working Class Children Are Deprived of Basic Education in Canada. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-593-9_6
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