Do immigrants feel Canadian when they come to live here? "I'm worried about that," says Adrienne Clarkson, former Governor General and now head of the Institute for Canadian Citizenship. "I think practically... we have five or ten years to make people feel like they belong or they are going to feel alienated." At a time when multiculturalism has been declared dead in other parts of the world, the question is pressing, but Clarkson sees a solution. In this interview she explains how her organization provides museum passes for recent immigrants as a way of sharing the history of their adopted home. It's a small gesture, but she believes that our own often fractious past has a lot to say to new arrivals today.
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But integration runs deeper than a museum pass say immigration lawyer Lee Cohen and anthropologist Howard Ramos. From their two very different perspectives, they raise questions about what "integration" really means, and even ask whether it is necessary.