The fallout from a riot in Montreal on Friday afternoon has reverberated across the Canadian news landscape in the days since, with citizens and politicians reacting to the chaos and disturbing signs of overt antisemitism from the event. Though the violence was speedily quelled and widely condemned, questions remain about the state of Canada’s multicultural society and whether it can withstand the mounting internal and external pressures on its integrity and cohesion.

As a routine Nato Parliamentary Assembly meeting took place in the city’s Palai