Multiculturalism has lost its meaning: Michael Bonner for Inside Policy – MLI

August 21, 2025

If multiculturalism is to be of any further use it must be able to tell us both where we came from and where we are now.

All policy first takes shape in the mind. It begins as an ideal: a perfect vision of what can or should be done. But its real expression – adoption and implementation – must always fall short of the ideal. That’s a truism, bordering on banal. Yet Canadian elites are loath to take it to heart, especially when it comes to their most cherished beliefs.

The supreme example of this is the policy of multiculturalism. Perhaps nowhere else is the gap between ideal and reality greater.

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