Identity politics has been an unintended consequence of multiculturalism introduced in the late 1960s by Pierre Trudeau - when average annual immigration intake was 60,000/year, varying with ups & downs in the economic cycle.  If 'white privilege' was the sin, it was the same group who opened immigration to the entire world. The primary source countries for immigrants to Canada are China, India & the Philippines ... which have fairly homogeneous populations of 1.4-billion, 1.3-billion and 102-million respectively. Much larger than Canada's pop'n of 35.5-million. They have lived their own cultures 'at home' and will be interested in multiculturalism, but some groups may live & promote their own cultures & identities here. Since 1992, immigrant intake has ranged from 250,000 to 300,000 annually (excl 10-yr temp residents, foreign students) ensuring different cultural communities are sufficient to compete for political attention. Politics has evolved to stoke multiplication by division.