Canadian Human Rights Tribunal Simulation
Overview
Students will learn about the harsh treatment of Canadian immigrants and the selective nature of Canadian immigration policies during the first half of the twentieth century by researching one of the following events:
- the Chinese Exclusion Act
- the Komagata Maru incident
- the SS. St Louis affair
- the internment of Japanese Canadians during the Second World War
Students will then prepare a case that they will present before a mock tribunal of the Canadian Human Rights Commission....