This is a nice column and I am pleased the author was able to make choices that hopefully will make her happy in the future and that her family supported those choices.

But there's nothing in that which counter-poses multiculturalism.  
There's nothing in official multiculturalism that demands people keep their culture in the face of  alternatives in Canada.

As so often with these types of writings, I think the presentation would have been stronger if the writer had begun with a brief overview of multiculturalism, at least as she understands it.  We wouldn't have the great diversity of choices to select from if we didn't have diversity to begin with.