Multiculturalism and Identity in Canada: A Case-Study of
Ukrainian-Canadians  by Woods, Eric Taylor  Abstract (Summary)
The thesis provides a political analysis of a position paper on
government programming recently adopted by the Ukrainian
Canadian Congress (UCC) a national ethno-cultural organisation
that ostensibly represents over one million Canadians of
Ukrainian heritage and a historically important player in the
development of multiculturalism in Canada. The impetus for such
an analysis is to explore whether there are alternative policy
directions available to the UCC that could satisfy its mandate
developing and enhancing the Ukrainian-Canadian community while
taking into account the reality that Ukrainian-Canadians
culturally resemble more and more the broader Canadian society.
In a wide-ranging analysis that criticizes both, official
Canadian multiculturalism for falling short in meeting its
commitment to cultural pluralism and the UCC for upholding a
position that relies on a static or retrograde