Deep Cultural Diversity: A Governance Challenge

Professor Pacquet has done his usual thorough, thoughtful, and relevant job in assessing Canadian public policy. In this book, he looks at Canada's approach to multiculturalism, and argues that it is not serving us well. He examines the role of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which has been used to create numerous entitlements, including several rights of citizenship without any commensurate obligations to Canadian society. There are so many thoughtful ideas in this book, that I wish it were written in a less academic and more accessable style. It definitely requires a post-secondary education and knowledge of Canada's socio-cultural history to understand it fully.