and questioned the virility of Republican men, has defended Quebec’s right to remove Ms. Ahmed from the classrooms. In a recent TV interview Mallick assured us that “even as a feminist” she believed Quebec had a right to insist that newcomers not isolate themselves from the mainstream and that such action was definitely not a racist act.
It’s only racist, apparently, when English Canada decides it would like to preserve at least a few vestiges of its language and culture— Christmas concerts in our public schools, for example, or a few jobs for unilingual Anglos.
In Quebec it’s pretty clear: If you are going to move there, you’re going to have to become a Quebecer. But if anyone suggests that anyone who immigrates to Ontario or British Columbia must become Canadian and integrate into the mainstream the racist label is quickly slapped on.
But let’s not get sidetracked here.
The issue in Canada is not about race or colour. This has always been a multi-ethnic country and always will be. Only a few cretins and idiots care about race or colour. Thank heavens colour doesn’t matter to anyone with half a brain anymore. Besides, let’s face it, people whose faces look pretty white to me are perpetrating most of the world’s problems these days, including right here in our own country.
Race is irrelevant. Colour is irrelevant.
What is very relevant is the tidal wave of immigrants of all races and colours flooding into our country with no understanding of the obligations placed on citizens of a democracy, no knowledge of English or French, few (if any) required skills and no knowledge of Canadian heritage, history, values, traditions or culture. And—at the risk of sounding even more politically incorrect—it is also true that many immigrants landing on our shores these days have no intention of making this their permanent home and thus have absolutely no loyalty to their community and very little interest in taking part in anything outside their own cultural interests. For many coming to Canada today, this is a place where they hope to make a pocketful of money one way or another before heading back to their native land as a big cheese.
And let us be very blunt and politically incorrect here. Some of the cultures immigrants are fleeing from these days are just plain godawful. Many of those we are supposed to welcome to Canada come from cultures that treat women terribly. Gays, dissidents and heretics are murdered, democracy is unknown and, perhaps most disturbing, many of those flocking to our shores these days have been taught from childhood to fear and hate the West. It is not by accident that there were even reports of dancing and cheering in more than a few American and Canadian streets as the airplanes plunged into the twin towers!
Thanks to our multiculturalism policy, all of these cultures are equal under Canadian law.
And let’s continue to tell the truth. In far too many cases immigrants arriving at our shores today come with the full expectation that they will receive immediate health care, education for a multitude of children, and government support for elderly relatives. Well before they arrive, most are fully acquainted with every social benefit and right available in our country but with no understanding of what their responsibilities might be. You can hardly blame them.
The entire immigration industry—from government officials to the truckloads of immigration lawyers and pretend lawyers making fortunes from it all—falls all over itself to inform newcomers of the golden benefits that are their right to demand. And they do demand!
Google “immigration” and you will stumble across page after page of information apprising prospective immigrants of the services available. From second-language training to welfare, to free legal counsel to free health care. For those in Third World nations it must truly sound like our streets are paved in gold. The land of milk and honey and government largesse.
You will be hard-pressed, however, to find any information concerning what will be expected of new Canadians. In researching this book, I checked out literally dozens of websites posted by immigration agencies and lawyers but never once stumbled across the word “responsibilities!”
All of the problems inherent in those facts are exacerbated by our multicultural policies that not only advise newcomers not to integrate into the Canadian mainstream (except in Quebec), but actively aid and abet ghettoization!
The Floodgates
What few Canadians know is that on a per capita basis Canada accepts more immigrants, refugees, foreign students and temporary workers than any other nation on earth. Far more!
The UK, for example, with a population of about 62 million, accepted 237,000 legal immigrants in 2007 (the last year for which we have figures). That’s roughly the same number of legal immigrants that entered Canada, population approximately 32 million, in that year, which means that every year, on a per capita basis, Canada accepts about twice as many immigrants as the UK.
The Americans welcome about 1.25 million legal immigrants into their giant melting pot each year. Once again, on a per capita basis, about half the number who come to Canada, although it’s no secret thousands more illegal migrants cross the border from Mexico into the southern states. The big difference in the US is that they have chosen the “melting pot” path. Below our border it’s a monoculture—American first, last and always.
Only Australia comes close to opening the floodgates as widely as Canada. With a population of 21 million, some 144,000 new Aussies are welcomed Down Under each year—still well below Canadian figures.
To fully understand the gravity of our situation and where mass immigration is inexorably taking us, we have to examine the numbers. Most Canadians have only a vague idea of how many newcomers we admit to Canada every year. Not only immigrants, but refugees, foreign students and temporary workers as well, all of whom place an increasingly unbearable strain on infrastructure and social programs. The sheer weight of the numbers, as you will see, is staggering.
Only accountants enjoy examining columns of figures, but if we are going to fully comprehend what we are doing to ourselves we must understand exactly what is happening. And in the case of immigration, it is the sheer numbers that pose the most obvious threat. So let’s have a close look at some of the head counts from an historical perspective, keeping in mind these figures apply only to legal immigration from 1860 until 2008, the last year for which we have accurate figures. These numbers include refugees accepted as landed immigrants. They do not include the huge numbers of temporary workers who pour into the country every year, the nearly 80,000 foreign students who are granted admission to our universities each year, and those who claim refugee status and are ordered deported but never leave. Those refugees probably account for at least an additional 20,000 a year!
Canada – Permanent [immigrant] residents as a percentage of Canada’s population, 1860 to 2008
Source: Immigration Overview, Permanent and Temporary Residents, Immigration Canada
The Numbers
In addition to the flood of immigrants entering Canada each year, here are a few more numbers to boggle your mind.
The following figures are from Facts and Figures–Immigration Overview, Permanent and Temporary Residents, a federal government publication. As of December 1, 2008, there were a total of 178,227 foreign students living in Canada (79,509 of whom arrived in 2008 alone), including 42,154 from China and 27,440 from The
