Question content, Scope, Purpose

As has already been mentioned, I think we need to narrow down our research interests to maybe 1 or 2 questions and come up with survey questions that correspond.

I like Lucy's strain of questions on multiculturalism, perhaps we could formulate one research question around that. For example "Does Canada's official multicultural policy enhance immigrant settlement/integration?"

I'm not sure how we could figure that out, unless we draw a link between people who view the policy as important and people who "like" immigrants/ immigrants who have had an easy time settling. This is also kind of tricky, because I don't think a lot of people would answer these sorts of questions negatively.

As for definitions, could we just ask them to identify themselves? I'm sure amount of time in Canada and legal status would be part of the default questions in the beginning, but we could ask them how they identify. I would be interested to see how many people say Canadian, immigrant, other national identity, and how that would correspond with their legal status.