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Why Canada is not the world’s most tolerant country

Recently, the Legatum Institute in London published the Prosperity Index ranking the world’s top countries within psychosocial categories. Of these, Canada topped the list as most tolerant toward minorities. As interesting as the attempt to quantify factors like tolerance may be, I am skeptical of how realistic such measures are. I tend to think that these studies only sugarcoat uncomfortable truths within Western societies and further facilitate a passive attitude towards the issues of oppression that still plague them. In an attempt to uphold the validity of statistics like these, people trick themselves into thinking there isn’t a problem. The…

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