The Challenge of Ethnic Conflict: Canada—From Bilingualism to Multiculturalism

Issue Date October 1993
Volume 4
Issue 4
Page Numbers 69-84
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About the Author

Hugh Donald Forbes is professor of political science at the University of Toronto. He is author of Ethnic Conflict: Commerce, Culture, and the Contact Hypothesis (1997) and is currently working on a book-length study of multiculturalism in Canada.

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