Public discussion on recent federal, provincial and municipal elections has increasingly focused on the “rise of the ethnic vote.” Is there a South Asian “ethnic vote” and if so, what is its significance? Are political parties playing a numbers game, or do they really want to hear from new voices? This roundtable of journalists and politicians, brought together in a collaboration between the Centre for South Asian Studies, the Journalism Lab at The Munk School of Global Affairs, and the South Asian Journalists’ Association Toronto Chapter, considered these key questions about emerging electoral logics, the limits and dynamics of political pluralism in Canada today.
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October 20, 2011