Are lights dimming on multiculturalism?Jan 11, 2014
By Jean-François Lisée
Angela Merkel deemed multiculturalism — the idea that social harmony is best achieved through celebrating our differences — a complete failure in Germany.
David Cameron claimed it facilitated the rise of radical Islam in Britain and called for "stronger societies and identities at home," along with a "much more active, muscular liberalism" that "believes in certain values and actively promotes them."
Last fall, the European backlash against multiculturalism crossed the Atlantic and landed in Quebec, when the governing Parti Québécois proposed the Charter of Values, which sets out a vision of government that breaks sharply with Canada's broader multicultural ethos.
Quebec, of course, with its distinctive religious history, feminist bent and linguistically diverse metropolis of Montreal, has never been reluctant to go against the Canadian grain.
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