In typical Steyn fashion, he is making things up.
Entirely different. The French riots were perpetrated by - what's the word? - "youths". The Australian riots were perpetrated by "white youths". Same age cohort, but adjectivally enhanced.
This is simply not true. Who doesn't know the background of the people rioting in France? Every news report I saw stated plainly that they were Arab or north African "youths" rioting. "The rioters were mostly Arab or black," according to Time Magazine.
Anyhow, I don't really understand the anti-immigration stuff myself. Last time I checked the two most immigration-friendly places in the last, say, 150 years have done pretty well. Better than anywhere else possibly.
And Clarkey, how do you propose immediatly immersing someone into the melting pot? Force them to take English lessons? Force them to wear different clothes? Seriously, how would it work?
The way I see it, if someone can't speak English then that's their problem, not mine. If that person can get through life speaking something other than English or French in Canada then what do I care?
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