Sydney, Australia: Karl Meyer

Canada Dept: These oases are as wildly diverse as the Russian Republic of Tatarstan, Sydney, Australia, and Queens, N.Y. What they all have in common is that all have implemented solutions to accommodate the traditions, religions and cultures of their new migrant populations within the established norms and practices, according to Winnipeg Free Press. Canada is at the forefront of the multiculturalism experiment. As Meyer and Brysac laudably write, Canada was the first nation to institute an official policy of multiculturalism and to establish a federal ministry of multiculturalism and tHIS informative look at successful immigration hubs worldwide explores what New York-based American academics Karl Meyer and Shareen Blair Brysac call "oases of civility." Governments of the western democracies, including Canada, as Prime Minister Stephen Harper has stated, take it as an article of belief that immigrants are necessary to supply a young, vibrant labour force to supplement their aging populations, to maintain the social safety net and to sustain economic growth. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.