We will see if this thread can get past page 1 with civility.
Salim Mansur has a though provoking article:
Multiculturalism Fails Canada
I know many believe Multiculturalism equals immigration but in fact multiculturalism was a modern ideology that has forced upon us political correctness. Where we have allowed people to bring their small mindedness and keep it under the shield of "tolerance".
He talks about Ujjal Dosanjh Liberal MP for Vancouver South who has confronted, not for the first time, Sikh extremism and how they hide behind multiculturalism to further their extremism and then goes on to discuss how multiculturalism diminishes Canada.
Immigration made Canada multi-ethnic. The success of modern, liberal democratic and multi-ethnic Canada rests upon the indispensable strength, culture and history of the founding peoples — English and French, Protestants and Catholics — and the institutions they built that would take in immigrants from around the world.
Diminishes history
Multiculturalism is a diminution of Canada’s founding history. It diminishes the vitality and largeness of the political culture that has accommodated a multitude of ethnicities within its borders, while it fails in bringing to immigrants — especially of non-European origin — a compensating increase in appreciation for those values that went into building Canada as a model of civility
He talks of Sikhs and Muslims but Irish, Tamils, and others could also be substituted.
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