Canada and Ukrainian Diaspora

Ukrainian diaspora: At 1.3 million, they are the largest Ukrainian diaspora outside of Russia, whose five million to seven million Ukrainians are either Russified or keep their ethnicity in the closet, according to The Star. Ukrainian Canadians played a prominent role in the 1960s and 1970s in making Canada constitutionally multicultural. And it was their political engagement that prompted Canada to become the first western country to recognize independent Ukraine in 1991 after the collapse of the Soviet Union and Theres the turmoil and division in Ukraine. And theres the tranquility and cohesiveness of Canadian Ukrainians. The one million American Ukrainians are proportionately a much smaller demographic than Canadian Ukrainians, who have also benefited from how Canada functions ensuring the equality and dignity of ethnic groups, as well as their right to maintain ties to motherlands, a tradition dating back to the English and French. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.