Immigration, Indigineity and futurity
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Thobani explains that the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism established the English and the French as the "two founding races" of Canada, reproducing the colonial erasure of the many Indigenous nations present on this land before settler colonialism. This use of the words "founding races" re-iterates the country's assumption of the inherent superiority and normality of settlers and their customs over Indigenous law, practice and ethics.
Multiculturalism also asserts Whiteness/English and French Canadian culture as the status quo, othering immigrant cultures and positing them as static and unchanging. I think that Indigenous cultures are excluded from modernity and the future of Canada in a similar way. Both minority groups in Canada are framed by the government and popular culture as "traditional" and unchanging. These stereotypes perpetuate the idea of the White settler as the rational, forward-thinking person, justifying their positions of authority in Canada.