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With increasing numbers of immigrants entering Canada over the past several decades, educators have become more sensitive to the various genres of communication competence and discourse patterns within a given culture. This is especially true for the Aboriginal students struggling to acclimate into Western curricula. The purpose of this study was to explore Aboriginal mothers’ perspectives on language acquisition for their children. Thirty Dene speaking mothers from a northern first nation community were administered a survey in a face to face format. The survey was replicated in part from previous studies on language acquisition of cultural groups in Canada. This paper will describe the challenges in trying to adapt such a survey, including issues of administration, translation, and survey validity and reliability. Challenges in adhering to Western research standards while displaying cultural sensitivity to its participants by way of acknowledging the community’s indigenous knowledge and English as an alternative language (EAL) issues are discussed.
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The overall recent development of Canadian foreign policy suggests that Canada has kept some elements of its foreign policy intact while substantially changing others. Particularly, in the area of security, Canada seems to have opted for a doctrine that expresses a certain level of scepticism towards what the multilateral order offers in terms of answers to the specific post-cold war challenges. This study is therefore aiming at understanding which institutional strategy Canada pursues in three different occasions : the elaboration of the anti-personnel landmines ban treaty, the resolution of the political crisis in Haiti, and the United Nations Security Council Reform. The analysis is typically a pattern matching that is based on an analytical grid established by Cooper. This framework allows to identify the nature and the scope of a given country's diplomatic action, Canada's and Australia's typical behaviours being considered as ideal-types. As it mil be possible to witness in each of the cases studied, Canada seems to favour a diplomatic action that breaks with its usual stance to defend innovative solutions, which seek to make use of modes of co-operation that go beyond the scope of already existing major international institutions. This tends to confirm that, notwithstanding a certain commitment towards principles that call for a routine form and a universal scope of action, Canada has recently tried to cast its foreign policy on new bases characterized by heroic and concentrated action. We therefore can conclude that, according to Cooper's parameters, Canada leans in fact towards a position closer to Australia's.