As part of the Coalition Avenir Québec’s ever-growing list of policies aimed at dictating how new Quebecers should act, live and look, a new bill has been added to the mix. Bill 84 — “an act respecting national integration” — aims to define a Quebec integration model the government says will be “distinct from Canadian multiculturalism.”

While announcing the bill, Immigration, Francization and Integration Minister Jean-François Roberge gleefully stated multiculturalism has been relegated to the “limbo of history.”

All I can say is: Good luck with that.

While it’s true that multiculturalism — a policy enshrined in federal legislation in 1988 — is seen by some Quebecers as malicious and aiming to undermine the majority culture and the French language, it’s........

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