TRUE multiculturalism is not possible?

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Why? Because the ethics behind different cultures of the world would clash.

An example is where immigrant families in Canada perform "honour killings". I'm sorry, "honour killings" is considered murder which is a crime in Canada.

Of course, some would argue that certain "crimes" are not "culture" but it is only masked under the word "culture" and thus is a "perversion" of that word. But then again, the problem is that it depends on who you ask.

So what do you think? Is actual full-blown multiculturalism possible?

I don't know.. I hear you on the Sharia/honor killings in our country though, I really don't like that. I feel many of these people just come to Canada to make enough money to return to their country, and that is why they insist on bringing their offensive customs. Our government is being typically ineffective on the matter in my opinion

All multiculturism is, is a lot of seperate cultures all living on top of each other in the same bit of land.
Whats the point of that?
Individual colours are beautifull and interesting, but if you mix them all up you just get a horiible muddy gray colour.
I think multiculturism is a plan by the worlds real racists in the hope we will all end up fighting each other leaving them to inherit the world.

multiculturalism is to a degree workable if you have multitudinous independent trive - village states. Nothing works with meganations.

In any case, the Green Monkey never evolves.

Probably not. People, in general, are too stupid and impatient.

The trouble with the question is that nowhere is "true" multiculturalism defined. What is implied in this statement?

In my view, the honour killings issue is a complete canard. Multiculturalism does not provide anyone with an exemption from public law. The killing of one's child is a criminal act, and no cultural imperative around so-called "honour" is going to provide a person with a defence at trial for such an act.

Too often, it seems to me, people fail to distinguish between private and public law. Allowing a Jewish couple to resolve the issues of their divorce before a Bet Din or permitting a muslim couple to resolve those issues before a sharia tribunal is a private matter for those couples. We encourage ADR (alternative dispute resolution) in all manner of private law disputes, so why not in matters of family law? The public law need only get involved in order to pronounce a legal dissolution of the marriage, to enforce the agreement made by the couple or to establish a resolution if one or the other of them declines to be bound by the result of the ADR.

If the OP means "true" multiculturalism to mean the importation of hundreds of different systems of public law into Canada, then clearly he is answering his own question. There is no point asking if the ridiculous is possible and then observing that it is not.