The thing is, though, this is a lie. Canada DEMANDS assimilation, they just do it in a quiet, more polite fashion than the Yankees do. You are permitted the surface aspects of diversity, but not true difference, for that would imply autonomy.
Carney: Canada is a mosaic, not a melting pot. And this is the distinction that matters. Because a mosaic doesn't dissolve or blend its pieces. Each is stitched to each and all the pieces hold all. And the beauty is in the arrangement, not in the blending.