Ottawa is a natural home to an outfit called the Global Center for Pluralism.
The direct invocation of “pluralism” as an ideal to which societies should strive is a new trend in global affairs.
As other western countries have closed their borders to refugees and asylum seekers in recent years, Canada became more welcoming. It has done so by relying mostly on the openness if its citizens — Canada has a unique system of refugee resettlement that allows groups of private citizens to sponsor refugee families.
Amidst an unprecedented global refugee crisis, Hungary erected a border fence, Australia is deporting people to island prisons, the United Kingdom opted to leave Europe, and the United States capped the number of people admitted as refugees to an historic low. Yet Canada decidedly bucked this trend and has embraced diversity as a source of national pride.
Now, Canada, in partnership with a large global NGOs, is seeking to export these ideals.
Earlier this year, the a newly renovated Global Center for Pluralism opened its doors just a few blocks from the Canadian Parliament.
Read more: UN Dispatch – By Mark Leon Goldberg
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