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Appendix G: Policy Priorities for Metropolis Phase II

  1. How might public policy enhance the capacity of Canada and of Canadian cities to receive and integrate immigrants, including refugees?
  2. What policies and programs are necessary to ensure the integration of children and youth of immigrant origin, particularly visible minorities?
  3. What is the role for public policy in promoting the social and cultural integration of newcomers and minorities into a multicultural or pluralistic society and what implications does this have for citizenship policy?
  4. What are the language-related challenges and opportunities created by the growing diversity of the immigrant population and how should public policy respond?
  5. How should public policy be directed in order to counter negative attitudes and discrimination toward immigrants and minorities?
  6. How might public policy improve the economic outcomes for immigrants and minorities in the context of domestic economic restructuring, changes in labour demand, changes in immigration sources and growing international mobility?
  7. What are the challenges and where should public policy be directed in order to produce just treatment and safe communities, ensuring equality and fairness within all aspects of the Canadian justice system?
  8. What set of immigrant and ethnocultural policies would best promote the ability of Canada, the provinces and cities to compete effectively in the new economy?
  9. What domestic measures and international relationships need to be in place in order for national asylum and humanitarian policies to function effectively?
  10. What are the public policy challenges in the areas of managing migration flows and integrating immigrants and their descendants that will result from demographic change and globalization, notably economic integration and technological change?
  11. As governance structures are reconfigured, what role should be played by non-governmental organizations in fostering the integration of immigrants and ethnic, religious and other minorities?

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