Includes bibliographical references and index Contents: Part One: The merits of multiculturalism -- Setting the record straight -- Putting multiculturalism into perspective -- Renegotiating the terms of integration -- The limits of tolerance -- A crossroads in race relations -- Can multiculturalism be extended to non-ethnic groups? -- Towards a more representative democracy -- A truce in the multiculturalism wars? -- Part Two: The unhappy marriage of federalism and nationalism -- Taking nationalism seriously -- Two models of federalism in Canada -- Papering over the differences -- Rethinking English Canada -- The bonds of social unity