Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of majority minority Canadian federal electoral districts


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The result was delete. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 07:07, 2 May 2019 (UTC)

List of majority minority Canadian federal electoral districts

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List which imports a uniquely American political terminology into Canada, where it does not have the same applicability or relevance. "Majority minority" districts in the United States are a specific policy tool that is intentionally used to protect and/or gerrymander (depending on your perspective) minority representation in response to the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and have even been the subject of Supreme Court cases to review their constitutionality -- so it's clearly possible to write a real, substantial article about majority-minority districts in the US, because reliable sources actually write about and analyze them as a thing. In Canada, however, it's true that demographic settlement patterns result a handful of electoral districts in the GTA and the GVRD happening to be "majority-minority", simply by virtue of the fact that Toronto and Vancouver are where a large proportion of Canada's visible minority population happens to be, but there are no active policy or legal rationales mandating their creation, they're not drawn that way on purpose to achieve any specific political objective, and no discernible controversy swirls around whether they should exist or not -- so instead of a real article about a reliably sourceable concept, this can never actually be anything more than a single-sourced list of demographic trivia. As always, Canada does not always need to automatically have its own version of every single article that exists for American politics -- this is a concept which gets discussed and analysed as an actual civil rights matter by reliable sources in the United States, but doesn't have anything like the same meaning or relevance in Canada. So there's no need for Canada to mirror the American list just because it's technically possible to extract some numbers from census data, because the concept simply isn't applicable in Canada the way it is in the United States: it doesn't have the same meaning, purpose, impact, status, controversy or sourceability at all, and amounts to an original research attempt to reverse-engineer a topic that doesn't have any real-world context for it. Bearcat (talk) 15:21, 24 April 2019 (UTC)
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 * Delete I'm not a fan of even the US version of this list but at least there's a relevance to it. Perhaps a "Demographics of Canadian federal electoral districts" article could encompass a wider set of information, but having a list limited to these districts isn't very applicable. Reywas92Talk 18:59, 28 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Seems to be a pointless intersection. Number   5  7  08:47, 29 April 2019 (UTC)


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