I get the impression that Canadian societies may be more tolerant. There are two logics to be reconciled. This point of view, this alterity is not only a Lacanian one. I would say it's so Lacanian. No, alterity is Hegel's word, and in my mind it means that one has to recognize the other in order to bring him in a link with you.
Love is a link, which means recognition of an otherness.
No, even in America it was not the case some years ago, but it is stronger and stronger now. Somebody told me that many new immigrants do not even learn the English language. As for the sake of language I think it's even poorer what comes about when people speak their own language at home and go to school in English. Since they are not taught to read and write in their own language, English expressions get translated directly. Simone de Beauvoir makes a woman the witness of men's intrigues.