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Canada Dept: Calling Canada a multicultural paradise is simply delusional, says author Lawrence Hill, according to The Chronicle Herald. I detest that idea. I find it quite repulsive. It just not true. Ask a thousand black students in high schools across Canada if they ve escaped the challenges of race and I m pretty sure that 995 of them will tell you absolutely not. I feel that it kind of self-serving and self-congratulatory to talk about a post-racial world and He made his comments prior to a public reading in Halifax last week, in which he was candid and forthright about the state of race relations in Canada. He doesnt agree with Toronto Life magazine high-profile March cover story the feature describes his book Black Berry, Sweet Juice as quaint which proclaims Toronto the first post-racial city and declaring the end of single ethnicity status in the country megalopolis. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.