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Canada today faces challenges that were not foreseen when the Multiculturalism policy was first adopted in 1971, and serious doubts have been raised about whether the policy can be adapted or updated to deal with these new realities. Even those who supported multiculturalism in the past have wondered whether it is time now to move to a ‘post-multicultural’ approach, and to give multiculturalism “a dignified burial.”1
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Kymlicka, W. (2015). The Three Lives of Multiculturalism. In: Guo, S., Wong, L. (eds) Revisiting Multiculturalism in Canada. Transnational Migration and Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-208-0_2
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