Quebec’s proposed national integration law, Bill 84, has predictably thrown English Canada into a fit. Critics have tried to savage it as an attack on minorities that will stigmatize certain communities.

In reality, Quebec is the only province actively taking steps to ensure the survival of a diverse society in 2025. Given all the Canadian shibboleths and myths about multiculturalism, the backlash to the proposed law is inevitable, but it is ultimately misplaced.