THE BATTLE OVER MULTICULTURALISM
Does it help or hinder Canadian Unity?

  The Battlelines in politics...

• "Multiculturalism is the Canadian reality. It is the underpinning
  of our common values. It is central to our unity and our identity
  as Canadians."
  Liberal Secretary of State Hedy Fry

  "We all want the right to retain our roots, but what we have is
  Trudeau 's enforced multicultural scam and the costs have
  been excessive."
  Progressive Conservative/Former Independent MP Jan Brown

  With muliculturalism, "the whole dialectic of two founding peoples
  with their own language and culture was submerged and diluted
  in this ocean of other languages and cultures."
  Bloc Québécois MP Christiane Gagnon

  Since government funding began, "many communities have divided.
  Friction and animosity have developed. Dependency on the state,
  on government handouts, has been created."
  Reform MP Cliff Breitkreuz

  "It is time the Liberal government took a stronger stand in defending
  multiculturalism...they should stand up to the right wing pressures
  and stand up for Canadian values."
  Former New Democrat MP Simon de Jong
  

  The Battlelines among other Canadians...

• "Aside from addressing the usual political considerations,
  multiculturalism came into being in order to open minds that for
  too long had been closed."
  Irving Abella, Historian, Toronto

  "Ethnocultural diversification of Quebec and Canadian society
  is not only irreversible, but it also fundamentally changes
  the way we live."
  Fo Niemi, Equality rights advocate, Montreal

  "Canada is a rare example of people of different cultures and
  languages democratically united in a single country...(this) has
  made Canada one of the most fortunate countries in the world."
  Geoffrey Pearson, Former Diplomat, Ottawa

  "Am I less Canadian because I also speak Cantonese and
  read the Vancouver Sun, the Globe and Mail, and the Chinese
  Ming Pao and Sing Tao papers daily?"
  Lilian To, Immigrant services director, Vancouver

  Employment equity is less a program dedicated to rooting out
  racist practices than it is a belief that Canadian society is
  (almost) irredeemably racist and that the labour market should
  be re-ordered along clientalist lines.
  Nathan Greenfield, Algonquin College, Ottawa.

  Firms' first export markets tend to be those which are
  psychoculturally closest to them - that is having similar cultural,
  legal and language characteristics.
  Jonathan Calof, International business professor, Ottawa

  "Despite all the apparent differences in cultural background,
  heritage and skin colour, we have far more in common: pursuit of
  freedom, democracy, and human rights, and the love of Canada."
  Joseph Wong, Harmony Movement, Toronto