Table of contents
Introduction
Multiculturalism 4
Culture 10
Plan of this work 22
Why this approach? 27
PART I: Fin-de-siècle critiques of multiculturalism 32
Chapter One: Classics of multicultiphobia 32
Bibby's Mosaic madness32
Bissoondath's Selling illusions35
Gwyn's Nationalism without walls39
Granatstein's Who killed Canadian history? 45
A Summary of the "Classics"47
Chapter Two: Multicultiphobia: A closer look 52
The primitive ontology of multicultiphobia52
Frozen and monolithic multiculturalism 59
Causality in the classics 65
The lure of the fairy-tale 69
Multicultiphobia and the scourge of political correctness 77
Chapter Three: Multiculturalism in Parliament, 1994-95 82
Bloc Québécois critiques of multiculturalism 83
Reform Party critiques 85 The Liberal response 97
The quality of the Parliamentary debate 103
Chapter Four: Multiculturalism in the News (1995) 108
Methodology 109 Thematic analysis 111
Conclusion 128
PART II: Multiculturalism after 911 129
Chapter 5: Multiculturalism, immigration, security 129
Stoffman and Canadian immigration policy 130
Collacott and the terrorist threat 134
Conclusion 137
Chapter 6: Parliament 2005-06: The ambiguous triumph of multiculturalism 139
Chapter 7: Multiculturalism in the News (2006) 148
Echoes of the "classics" 148
Echoes of 1995 themes 152
Paper-by-paper analysis 154
Conclusion 168
PART III: What do we need to talk about? 169
Chapter 8: Multiculturalism and relativism 169
The problem of relativism170
Relativism 1173
Relativism 2180
Relativism 3184
Conclusion193
Chapter 9: Multiculturalism and society's basic needs 195
Values, or guns and jails? 198
What society do we want?209
What does this society need?210
Conclusion216
Chapter 10: How are we doing? 218
Multiculturalism and the welfare state219
Social cohesion221
Social interaction224
Conclusion232
Chapter 11: Sauce for the goose...? 235
Double standards...?236
... What double standards?237
The solidarity principle241
Religious regulation246
Concluding thought251
PART IV: Update and Conclusion 252
Chapter 12: Immortal Multicultiphobia? 252
Recent multicultiphobia252
The Kenney factor254
A Personal Conclusion 263
How do we need to talk? 264
What do we want multiculturalism to be? 273
Works Cited 281
Notes 336
