Editing Multinational state (section)

=== Americas ===

==== Bolivia ====
{{main|Ethnic groups in Bolivia}}

Since 2010, under the [[presidency of Evo Morales]], [[Bolivia]] has been officially defined as a [[Plurinationalism|plurinational state]], which recognizes the national distinctiveness of various [[Indigenous peoples in Bolivia|indigenous peoples]].

==== Canada ====
{{main|Ethnic groups in Canada|Constitutional debate in Canada}}
Whether [[Canada]] should be described as "multinational" is an ongoing topic in academia<ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://doi.org/10.1017/S0008423901778055|doi = 10.1017/S0008423901778055|title = Canada and the Multinational State|year = 2001|last1 = McRoberts|first1 = Kenneth|journal = Canadian Journal of Political Science|volume = 34|issue = 4|pages = 683–713| s2cid=154802932 |url-access = subscription}}</ref> and popular discourse. The current policy of the federal government is that Canada is [[official bilingualism in Canada|bilingual]]—English and French [[Official Languages Act (Canada)|are both official languages]]—and [[multiculturalism in Canada|multicultural]]. In 2006, the [[House of Commons of Canada]] voted in favour of ''Government Business No. 11'', which states that the [[Québécois people|Québécois]] "form a nation within a united Canada".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspx?Language=E&Mode=1&Parl=39&Ses=1&DocId=2539924|title=Journals No. 87 – November 27, 2006 (39–1) – House of Commons of Canada|website=www.parl.gc.ca|access-date=22 October 2017}}</ref> According to Canadian political philosopher Charles Blattberg, Canada should be seen as a multinational country. All Canadians are members of Canada as a civic or political community, a community of citizens, and this is a community that contains many other kinds within it. These include not only communities of ethnic, regional, religious, and civic (the provincial and municipal governments) sorts, but also national communities, which often include or overlap with many of the other kinds. He thus recognizes the following nations within Canada: those formed by the various [[First Nations in Canada|First Nations]], that of francophone Quebecers, that of the anglophones who identify with English [[Canadian culture]], and perhaps that of the [[Acadians]].<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://www.academia.edu/3084986|title= "Canadian Identity" and "Canadian Identity and Language"|author=Charles Blattberg|publisher=University of Montreal|year=2013|ssrn= 2238333}}</ref><ref name="Blattberg">{{cite book|last=Blattberg|first=Charles|title=Shall We Dance? A Patriotic Politics for Canada|location=Montreal|publisher=McGill–Queen's University Press|year=2003}}</ref>