Canada's survival is due to immigration according to this article.
Being a New World country, it has always been dependant on new bodies entering and making a go of it on the second biggest landmass on Earth. Each new person or group of people have added to the country and, when asked, claimed they were Canadian.
Now, Canada is stop A or B for the culturally lazy or confused. One is only a Canadian when it serves a purpose. The older generations, too weak, lazy or unwilling to say or do anything, will soon be in no position to argue. After all, who are we to demand that the new blood speak the official languages, obey local laws or customs, or even ask they give something to the country that has been so good to ignore their lack of etiquette, education or ability to be useful in any way?
This is how a country dies.
What is wrong with asking that someone, to whom a refuge was given, give back something in return? Is it too much to ask that in official circles they speak either English or French (and it's English by a mile) or that they respect local laws and customs even if they are different from what the new body is used to?
The problem is the existing body of Canadians. Multiculturalism, giving sway to the French or any other group that whines enough, failure to perpetuate its own species and the nearly complete lack of common sense and decency are ways in which Canada is circling the drain. Why should new immigrants- however they entered the country- adhere to any laws or principles if Canadians think it is beneath themselves to go to church, marry, obey its own laws, hold fast to its principles or even call themselves Canadian? Canada is a joke because it will not be what it should be- a country. Multiculturalism might make us feel good about hiding our latent racism or the fact that we have no idea where so-and-so is from but it doesn't make for good public policy. Lingua anglia not lingua franca. It's not an ethnophobic statement but a reality. Shacking up might sound cute but really just shows how the respective partners have an inability to be adults and make a commitment. What- the word of law and God are beneath a couple of people who will ultimately separate because one of them is a cat person? Yes, really mature.
Some may smile quietly to themselves that immigrants are keeping the country alive but that is nothing new. Perhaps they should smile when the country is filled with Canadians, not just people who say they are.
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Just recently a Canadian team of army personnel and RCMP officers are on a mission in the Northern reaches of the Arctic to reclaim Canadian land masses near the border of Greenland. I don't think the real threat to Canada is a group of hunters killing a polar bear. Canadians as a whole can't seem to grapple an ideological threat to our identity.
But what is Canadian identity? We've thrown it away in order to make room for multiculturalism and ethical plurality. We won't take on an identity because that would make us bad like the Americans.
This is EXACTLY the crisis America is facing. And worse, anyone who complains about this is called "right-winger, narrow-minded, intolerant" and a whole litany of insults. It's in fashion now to HATE your country and to be criticized for DEFENDING your country's identity. God, what a upside-down world we live in.
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