George Brown Was No Happy Multiculturalist

But consider Brown. He began from the same premise: cultural diversity is inevitable. Be he did not celebrate it. He was no happy multiculturalist. He argued bluntly that social diversity is a threat to civil peace. Diversity excites "hostile feelings" among the populace. It shores up political relations of domination and subordination. His argument in a nutshell was that interests in relation to race, religion, and nationality must be excluded from the federal level and "thrown over on the localities."

--Janet Ajzenstat, The Canadian Founding: John Locke and Parliament (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2007), 92.