Why Canada’s Multicultural Policy Falls Short of the Gospel Ideal: Moving Toward Involvement, Empathy, and Commonness

Sherman Lau. The Canadian government, hospitals, schools, and corporations have already incorporated the Canadian mosaic of ethnic diversity through the policy of multiculturalism. However, unlike these institutions, the multicultural fellowship of Christ’s disciples does not merely serve to be an illustration of inclusion. It is the representation and living testimony of God’s people who amid diversity are intentionally living out kingdom unity in Jesus Christ, evidenced by our commitment to ‘one Lord, one faith, one baptism’ (Ephesians 4:5). Thus, intercultural discipleship in the Canadian multicultural context is achieved when we shift from accommodation to involvement, tolerance to empathy, and co-existence to commonness. As God’s new humanity, we are called out from our ethnocentrism as witnesses to the power of God to redeem and restore broken relationships with him and with one another in a multi-ethnic and multi-faith reality.

Why Canada’s Multicultural Policy Falls Short of the Gospel Ideal