Multicultiphobia

Table of contents Introduction Multiculturalism 4 Culture 10 Plan of this work 22 Why this approach? 27 PART I: Fin-de-siecle 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 Quebecois 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