TORONTO—The French president, the German chancellor, and the British prime minister have expressed widely publicized doubts about multiculturalism. Disparaging multiculturalism is not new and some Canadians, especially Quebecers, find fault with it. PQ MNA and former Cabinet minister Louise Beaudoin castigates it as "not a Quebec value" and Gérard Bouchard, co-chair of Quebec's commission on "reasonable accommodation," rejects it as a "non-starter" in his province. Multiculturalism, according to acclaimed novelist Neil Bissoondath, encourages the isolation and stereotyping of cultural groups while sociologist Reginald Bibby decries it as "mosaic madness."

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