Brings together scholars of cultural diversity to address key components of the changing Canadian story: the evolution over time of multiculturalism within Canadian constitutional law and policy; the territorial dimension of Canadian federalism; and the role of constitutional interpretation by the courts in the development of Canada as a multicultural state.

Trudeau as the first theorist of Canadian multiculturalism /Hugh Donald Forbes -- Multicultural rights, multicultural virtues : a history of multiculturalism in Canada / Michael Temelini -- The Canadian model of diversity in a comparative perspective / Will Kymlicka -- The death of deference : the implications of the defeat of the Meech Lake and Charlottetown Accords for executive federalism in Canada / Ian Peach -- Federalism in Canada : a world of competing definitions and views / Marc Chevrier -- Repositioning the Canadian state and minority languages : accountability and the "action plan for official languages" / Daniel Bourgeois and Andrew F. Johnson -- Making international agreements and making them work within a multicultural federal state : the experience of Canada / Hugh Kindred -- New constitutions and vulnerable groups : Brian Dickson's strategies in interpreting the 1982 Charter / Jameson W. Doig -- Whose reality? Culture and context before Canadian courts / Robert J. Currie -- Multiculturalism, equality, and Canadian constitutionalism : cohesion and difference / Joan Small -- Welfare rights as equality rights? Insights from the Supreme Court of Canada / Katherine Eddy.