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Canada’s official state policy is, and has been since the Trudeau government of the 1970s, one of multiculturalism. It became firmly entrenched in Canada’s Constitution (Canada Act 1982), and law in 1988 through the Act for the Preservation and Enhancement of Multiculturalism in Canada (also known as the Canadian Multiculturalism Act). One of the many stated objectives of the Act is to “encourage and assist the social, cultural, economic and political institutions of Canada to be respectful and inclusive of Canada’s multicultural character”.