Canada has always been and will always be a country of immigrants and people bring their traditions, culture, food, religion with them. Now there may be some more extreme elements of some cultures that come to Canada (Honour killings being one) that are against our laws, will be punished, and thus will not have the chance to become acceptable in Canadian society. But who is anyone to say that people should be forced to give up any element of their culture within the bounds of our law? I always find there's a latent racism and xenophpia associated with arguments against immigration and multiculturalism - as if because people are bringing traditions from non-white countries they are less valid than the traditions that immigrants were bringing to Canada 50-75 years ago.
Even so, these questions generally only apply to first generation immigrants. The second and third generations basically assimilate into "mainstream" Canadian or North American culture as it is.
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