canada was the first to enact a multicultural
Canadian Multiculturalism Act In a webpage published by the Ministry of Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship (IRC) it is declared that: "In 1971, Canada was the first country in the world to adopt multiculturalism as an official policy."[6] This statement likely refers to the 8 October 1971 announcement of Prime Minister Trudeau in the House of Commons of Canada that, after much deliberation, the policies of bilingualism and multiculturalism would be implemented in Canada.[7] One result of this policy statement was the Canadian Multiculturalism Act' of 1988.