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As Canadian as apple pie

1995 The title captures more than the content of this 1995 article written by political historian Garth Stevenson of Brock University. It also captures an element which was to prove characteristic of Inroads' approach: kicking sacred cows, in this case the assumption that multiculturalism was something distinctly and admirably Canadian. Stevenson set out his contention as follows:

As concept and symbol, multiculturalism may serve a number of purposes. For Trudeau, Its primary purpose was to undermine and destroy the older ideological symbol of "deux nations." For some allophones and members of visible minorities, it may convey the promise that …