ABSTRACT
Over the past few decades, Canada has absorbed a considerable flow of immigrants relative to its population, in contrast to many other Western countries which have sharply curtailed immigration flows. As a result, in Toronto, Canada’s largest metropolis, more than 50 per cent of the population is actually constituted of visible or linguistic ‘minorities’. In Montreal, Canada’s second largest city, more than 50 per cent of the pupils enrolled with the Montreal School Board have at least one parent who was born outside of Canada. One outcome of such large immigration flows is that Canadian society is now increasingly diverse.
