Erasure in the name of recognition: Canadian multiculturalism and present-day colonialism

Author Biography

• Kathleen Thomas-McNeill

  Kathleen Thomas-McNeill is a master’s student in the interdisciplinary studies program at York University. Her research centres on how official multiculturalism policies—as promoted by the government—handle Indigeneity. That is to say, her research asks how official multiculturalism as a diversity management strategy can really benefit the minority communities of Canada, when the policy documents are encoded with a settler-colonial framework of Indigenous dispossession. The research critiques Canada’s self-image and bridges the ideological gap between what Canada says and what Canada does.