The ties between B.C. and Blighty aren’t what they were.
The ties between B.C. and Blighty aren’t what they were, even in Victoria, once considered so English that they slapped a Union Jack on the funnel of the Princess Marguerite and lured American tourists here with promises of fish and chips and high tea. No longer is a London accent necessarily treated as less foreign than one from Quebec City.
That’s why the former head of the Inter-cultural Association of Greater Victoria sent letters to every municipal council in the province this month, urging a name change for British Columbia. But that doesn’t mean he can’t challenge people to think about being more inclusive, about creating a climate in which no one feels excluded, as though their citizenship came with an invisible asterisk. If some of us, being the default setting, never had to think much about identity while growing up, others weren’t allowed to escape the hyphens.
Of the close to five million people who now live in B.C., 1.7 million belong to a visible minority, including 550,000 of Chinese, 474,000 of South Asian and 174,000 of Filipino ancestry, along with 61,000 Blacks. Note that Ottawa’s definition of visible minority doesn’t include the 300,000 who identify as either wholly or partly Indigenous.
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