Canadian multiculturalism is in rude health and has licked the kinds of problems that crop up in other countries. Haroon Siddiqui explains how.
Multiculturalism is being trashed in Europe. My Canadian view of that is:
a) Europeans are abandoning what they never had; if, by multiculturalism, we mean the official recognition and promotion of the equality and dignity of all groups and cultures, rather than a feel-good policy which celebrates urban cosmopolitan exotica but camouflages the domination of majority mores on minorities – politically, economically, culturally and socially, and:
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