The 3rd most negative piece of federal legislation

...... has turned out to be The Official Multicultural Act (1988) passed into law under the Mulroney Conservatives, and the setting up of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal shortly thereafter to enforce it.

As with Official Languages and the Charter, these were brought into being by the majority votes of a Centrist government (ON,QC) and designed primarily for protection of QC as well as to ensure continued political/financial control of the central government over the ROC. Under the guise of accommodation, they have become the platforms of choice for most all linguistic/cultural minorities to further their own narrow interests. While not initially intended to deal with issues of freedom of speech/action, the venues of the federal/provincial human rights tribunals are increasingly finding themselves adjudicating in these areas. Initially it was about "accommodation" - first of all to Francophones and then over time, to newcomers.

Exacerbating this whole Multicultural issue has been the dubious at best, and downright slip-shod policies/decisions by the majority federal governments over the past 3.5 decades in the areas of Citizenship, Immigration, Refugee, and Heritage. These four federal files are in abominable shape and there seems to be no will at the federal level to make much in the way of significant positive corrections. It is time for the provinces to set up their own strategies.

The net situation is that Canadian citizens are finding themselves bound increasingly tighter by a network of legality that has us in a mode of enforced Extreme Political Correctness. The dominant cultures are left with choices to accept/acquiesce or face finding themselves taken to court - provincially, federally, or quasi-judicially - and for the most part, losing if it happens. It is no longer about "accommodation" but rather about push-back in terms of what is/is not "reasonable accommodation".

The West had little or no say in terms of this act/fallout legislation coming into being and was legally compelled to follow along with the implementations or deal with going to court - provincially or even to the SCC. AB resistance to this legislation is apparent as it took until 1996 before Alberta enacted the Alberta Human Rights & Citizenship Commission.

Anyone not following what is happening as regards the whole area of Multiculturalism, particularly in Britain, France, and Denmark, should be. They"get" that multiculturalism has become an abysmal failure and their social fabrics are in the process of being legally shreded. The U.S has not yet "got it" and Canada even less so.

With Toronto/ON having to fight off a major lobby to bring in Sharia Law, it is time that Canadians begin to not only "get it" but start doing something about it. As a province, AB can takes steps to avoid what has been happening in Europe (and it will) but so far, the will just is not there.