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Originally Posted by Wormius
If you’re actually an immigrant who believes these things, then why aren’t you adapting to Canada? You keep saying immigrants should adapt to the lifestyle here, but in the same breath you are constantly telling us that we should be more like other countries and change our culture, like not renaming landmarks or having “x” on their passports. There are other places, right? Why not move to the US? Has it crossed your mind that you’re acting in a completely hypocritical manner? You want our country to bend to your whims and believe systems, but keep saying everybody else that moves here should be the ones adapting.
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We are getting slightly off topic here in the American thread when this should be in the Canada Politics thread. That being said, when it comes to mass immigration to the tune of millions in a very short while (Canada) it changes things. For the better and for the worse. This isn't some Canada or American concern, it happens everywhere. Your starting to see huge pushback against mass over tourism cause it's pissing people off.
When people talk about immigration concerns and people fight back with the race card, they usually don't think of what the opposite thing would mean. What would other countries think of mass immigration? Us bringing Canadian values over to other countries and trying to change them?
Are some things I say hypocritical? 100% but so are a lot of people's when it comes to immigration. Just look at the federal government's changed response. As an immigration lawyer said on TV the other day, there are 2+ million people here on work visa's who are expecting residency here. They haven't been putting in the time in Canada just to get stiffed when it comes time to collect a PR card because the Liberals screwed this file up. The backlog is beyond a disaster.
I didn't just make up that bit about Gender X on a Passport. This is an official acknowledgement from the Government of Canada! Canada may issue them but when asked by other countries, there are only 2 choices and nothing more. When you actually see what the travel advisories are for a ton of other countries, you get a sense of how different our culture here and theirs is and why people sometimes butt heads with people over it.
To bring it back to what another poster said. You can be pro immigration and for strong borders. I advocate for high quality immigration, modest numbers, strong integration of Canadian culture and values while allowing and promoting of their own cultural identities.
What we have today is an abomination on this file and it's evident.