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Canada has been declared by the UN to be one of the best countries in the world in which to live - yet to define our identity is like trying to nail smoke to the wall. Canada is a nation of many cultures. There are Canadians from nearly every ethnic background imaginable, be they French or English, or descendent from immigrants from all corners of the world. In 1971, the Trudeau government adopted a policy of multiculturalism within a bilingual framework (McRoberts, 1997). Multiculturalism is here to stay, but is it beneficial to the formation of the Canadian identity? McRoberts points out; the policy can be observed in a very negative light. He goes on to state that "it has been argued that multiculturalism has impeded rather than facilitated the integration of immigrants into Canadian society" (McRoberts, 1997 pg131). However as the evidence will show, the policy of multiculturalism can...

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