Take a look at: Quality of Life in Canada.
https://www.nbc.ca/personal/advice/immigration/quality-of-life-in-canada.html
Then read: We fail our citizens in Canada – and the UN is onto us.
http://theconversation.com/we-fail-our-citizens-in-canada-and-the-un-is-onto-us-103894
Prepare an essay that addresses the following questions:
• Before you entered university, towards which article would you have tended to agree with
more? Why?
• In regard to the second article, which issues – and the related social determinants of health –
do you think are especially important and at odds with the first article?
• Which interests in Canada would be pushing forward the view of Canada expressed in the
first article. Why would they do so?
• How would it be possible for both these articles to have elements of truth? Hint: For whom
might the first article apply? For whom might the second article apply?
• Which view do you think wealthy people have of Canada, recent immigrants to Canada, and
the average student at York University? Why so?
Sample Solution
