History doesn't happen in spite of, it happens because. The reason multiculturalism was embraced was because there was no foundation for the Canadian identity. Ontario didn't "miss out" on cultural development - it never developed in and of itself. Culture can develop outside of government regulation - in fact, most cultures do. "Culture" that require constant government oversight and support to exist aren't often organic or meaningful, nor very cultural at all.
Canada was New France for 229 years, and effectively a British dominion until 1982. Historical relevancy dictates that Canada's historic identity is an English-French nation. The state plays a crucial and constant role in cultivating culture, in Europe this manifested in the royal courts (London, Versailles, Vienna, Madrid, or papal court in the case of Rome) which shaped much of European culture as we know it today. It is ultimately the state which dictates culture, whether its tribal chieftains, or imperial monarchs.
Japan's culture was dictated by the imperial court in Kyoto for over a thousand years, you simply cannot make such a claim that culture does not require constant government maintenance when you have a username like "kawaii," like do you even know where that originates? It's an off-shoot of miyabi, the aesthetic of the Japanese imperial court, the court ladies were writing in their diaries about cuteness. Sorry I had to go there but a lot of people here seem to be weebs.
Both are poor examples because both countries have tenuous relationships, at best, between their respective ethnic groups. Separatist parties in Belgium, for example, constantly advocate for the secession of Flanders.
I'd rather have English-French tensions than becoming an extension of India, Pakistan, and Africa. Literally please bring back good old fashioned English-French rivalry, I am begging, its much more preferrable than having Indians blasting loud Bollywood music, shooting fireworks, looking ugly, with their literal pyjama clothes, Third World slop, and the stench of acidic poop.
I think that this is a very Canadian thought, in that it ignores every other province that isn't Ontario or Quebec.
As much as I like Manitoba's verdant plains and métis origins, in 1867 they were not even a province, they began as a thinly populated métis region cropped out of Britain's territory, Rupert's Land, and its final borders were redrawn in 1907. A similar story for the rest of the Prairies, and even the Maritimes, Newfoundland itself was a British territory until 1949. Ontario and Quebec dictates and shapes our national identity because it is the historic core of Canada, where Canada itself began as a French and later British province, where the term Canada originates, and where most of the population resides.
If one act was enough to destroy 4 centuries of cultural consensus, then it was not a very strong consensus.
The Great Leap Forward was one act and it destroyed much of China's ancient culture, and they're still recovering from it.
The potency of the muliticultural policy in destroying Canada's English-French consensus cannot be understated, especially for a country that is very young compared to China.
All proponents of Canada not having a core culture can go fuck themselves, Pierre Trudeau simps.
All laws derive from normative standards, and normative standards are dictated by culture. Canada's core culture is English-French as evident by the Quebec Act and British North America Act.
Any and all arguments against this fail because laws wouldn't fucking exist with a core culture, ya dimwits.
Like what do you fucking think happens, you just take a dump and use your shit to make laws? Laws are literally the fucking prime evidence of a core culture, laws cannot exist without a core culture.
When someone says Canada has no core culture, they're retarded fuckwits, laws are literally derived from a core culture.
It's like saying the HUMANS DON'T HAVE WATER even though were 75% water, that's how retarded it sounds.
WE HAVE LAWS THEREFORE WE HAVE A CORE CULTURE.
Here's an equation because de-programming 80 years of "Canada has no core culture" is exhausting:
CORE CULTURE = NORMATIVE STANDARDS = LAWS