50 Years Of Canadian Multiculturalism: Accounting for its Durability, Theorizing the Crisis, Anticipating the Future
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Is there a future for Canadian multiculturalism as national policy, normative framework, and governance regime in a postmulticultural world of shifting demographics, new mobilities, and multiple identities? In response to a question that evokes both dismay and disagreement, this paper analyzes and assesses the salience and prospects of Canada's official multiculturalism through the prism of a postmulticultural lens. However durable and popular as a diversity governance model, an official multiculturalism is showing signs of crisis since it is no longer theoretically attuned to the demands of a rapidly changing, highly mobile, and diversely complex world. The paper argues that any move beyond multiculturalism as diversity governance is not about rejection or retreat. More accurately, it's about building on multiculturalism's positives while moving positively forward in ways more responsive to new realities, evolving trends, and creative possibilities. This paper also proposes a re-energized multicultural governance model for living together with/in/through a complexity of differences across a global/national/local nexus.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".