Multiculturalism? It’s been official federal government policy since 1971. Back then, Canadians used to explain that whereas America was a melting pot, Canada was a salad bowl--whether Italian-Canadians, Ukrainian-Canadians, or Haitian-Canadians, we were all freestanding vegetables linked only by a metaphorical maple-flavored salad dressing slopping around our feet. It has been amazing to me to see how swiftly and unobtrusively the salad bowl thesis has dribbled south of the forty-ninth parallel and virtually eliminated one of the most fiercely held principles of the Republic: E Pluribus Unum. The Clintonian view of the state--as a collection of disparate group identities in need of a strong central government to act as arbiter and distributor of largesse--is quintessentially Canadian.