ecial treatment for the disabled, racial minorities, ethnic minorities migrating to Canada from within the Commonwealth and across the face of the globe and women as a privileged and protected class as well (Canada and the World Backgrounder, 5).
The issue becomes even more transparent when one examines sociological and political science journals. For example, Angela Aujla (41), writing in Canadian Woman Studies, described at some length the difficulties encountered by second generation South Asian Canadian women in the context of a dominant culture "which categorizes them as visible minorities, ethnics, immigrants, and foreigners -- categories considered incommensurable with being a 'real' Canadian, despite the promises of multiculturalism." Without in any sense denigrating the lived experiences of South Asian Canadian women as a collection of ethnic minorities in a predominantly Caucasian country, the fact of the matter is that Canada has created many policy structures that actively embrace multiculturalism which, in the Canadian context, "is a government-sanctioned system essentially for the protection and promotion of the various cultures making up the Canadian mosaic" (Robertson, 99).
The problem that Canada faces now, according to Cole Harris (193), is that it is "an evolving human geography that has nurtured difference
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