Numerous studies all point to the same conclusion: social fragmentation is intensifying and reaching alarming proportions in Canada. It manifests itself in a climate of division that is gradually eroding the social fabric; it is fueled by persistent structural inequalities, as evidenced by the lack of representation among racialized groups, particularly those identified as Black; it is ultimately reinforced by the erosion of social capital and the social crisis of trust, manifested in the deepening of the “us versus them” divide and the rise in acts of hatred toward anything that exists on the margins or outside of “us”: immigrants; people of different religious beliefs, sexual orientations, or skin colors.