L'identité multiculturelle au Canada depuis les années 1990 : de la consolidation à la mise en question?

In this paper, I argue that the conflict between Canada's linguistically defined founding nations helped to consolidate multiculturalism as part of Canadian national identity in the 1990s. As a side-effect -- or condition -- of this consolidation, multiculturalism abandoned the language of groups and was redefined in liberal-individualist terms. As such, it was unprepared to reintegrate the claims for group rights and parallel institutions that reemerged on the political scene in the early 2000s. Today, it looks as if Canada is joining -- albeit as a latecomer -- the widespread trend of countries that are redefining their national identities yet again in terms of (one) shared culture and community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]