Montreal Gazette - If we find coherence in diversity our society will be better for it

Op-ed by Roderick A. Macdonald, the F.R. Scott Professor of Constitutional and Public Law in the Faculty of Law, McGill University, written at the invitation of Interculturalism 2011, in the context of the International Symposium on Interculturalism that will take place in Montreal May 25 to 27

"Although Quebec is celebrated as one of the world's most cosmopolitan places, cosmopolitanism has recently come under attack. Some feel that Quebec is changing too fast, its core values being eroded, the richness of its history lost, and social cohesion threatened. The perceived failure of immigrants to assimilate into Quebec society is held up for special criticism. But such criticisms rest on the false belief that there are unbridgeable differences between Quebecers and newcomers - between "insiders" and "outsiders."