Dr. Entropy's comment is fine, so far as it goes, but overlooks a few points. While Indians weren't, in most cases, exterminated for their land (although the Beothuks of Newfoundland would argue that point, if any of them had survived) they were and are hardly treated as equals. Several large scale insidious injustices were perpetrated on them, notably the highly discriminatory Indian act, the Residential Schools act, and the notorious Potlatch laws. Most of these have been repealed or amended, but their long term effects remain.

The good Dr's analysis of the French Canadian Quebec situation, is also slightly incorrect, in that it overlooks the fact that during the period before and at Confederation, Quebec francophones were not dominated by agrarian peasants but by a financial elite. In fact, until the rise of elected Quebec sovereigntists in the 1970's many major Canadian financial institutions were headquartered in Montreal.

As to whether Canada's immigration policy is superior, I will not comment. But the influx of immigration from certain regions has led to distinct enclaves in most major Canadian cities. While these may not be ghettoes in the sense that might be found in Detroit or Baltimore, they none the less exist, (Asian and Punjabi in Vancouver, Jamaican in Toronto, etc.) and while they may not be impoverished in most cases, there are distinct social issues that arise. There are, by the way, ghettoes of the Detroit/Baltimore type in Canada. They are usually populated by native indians.

To my knowledge, Canada is the only nation that (A) has sizable minority groups and (B) treats them significantly better than the US. This is due less to any unique Canadian genius than to a series of fortuitous historical events: (1) The fur trade was extrememly important to colonial Canada, so the Indians had to be negotiated with, rather than exterminated for their land (US) or enslaved for their labor (Latin America); (2) The presence of a large French-speaking minority, concentrated in Quebec and holding the balance of power in Parliament, managed to extract significant concessions from the federal government, rising in just one generation from peasant poverty to urban prosperity. By contrast, blacks in the US were dispesed across many different Northern and Southern states by 1965, so they could not form nearly as influential a voting block. (3) Canada has followed a superior immigration policy, discriminating in favor of the wealthy and better educated. Canada also avoids accepting the bulk of its immigrants from any single country, a phenomenon that inevitably creates self-perpetuating ghettos (e.g. Mexicans in the US, Algerians in France). There may be a another country where minority groups are better-off than Canada, but I doubt it.

Canada, by all acounts, appears to handle Minority Issue better than the USA and many other countries. You can start by examining how Canada handled Native Americans in North America compared to the USA. The US shamefully handled affairs with Native Americans, breaking treaties, exterminating them and intentionally infecting them with disease. Canada , by and large handled things much better. Canada is a diverse nation where Asians and people from the caribbean have effectively blended into mainstream society. The country has had a painful process of dealing with French-Canadians, ironically and French as a language. Canadians seem to be generally receptive to minorities.