Our state-sponsored experiment with multiculturalism has been an abject failure. We didn’t need the recent arrests of homegrown terrorist suspects to tell us that.
The fanciful, naive notion by social engineers like former prime minister Pierre Trudeau and the left-lib, pseudo-intellectuals who supported him is that a nation can somehow be forged by weaving together a patchwork quilt of different races and cultures from around the world. The thinking was that all these new Canadians would happily co-exist and build a brave, new Canada, distinct and unique in the world.
Trudeau, a vicious ideologue, despised the notion of the U.S. melting pot (no surprise, since he hated Americans), believing instead that state-sanctioned and funded multiculturalism would be superior to any system in the world.
And so the floodgates were opened, mainly to third world immigrants and refugees, most of whom settled in our larger cities, primarily Toronto. Once here they were supported by generous federal funding programs and encouraged to keep the traditions of the cultures they came from — regardless of how backward and undemocratic.
The hatreds and tribalism of their home countries came with them. The hyphenated Canadian was born. The idea that Canada would ever have a distinct identity was destroyed.
There would be no such thing as a Canadian, just hyphens: people with greater allegiance to their birth nation than this new country that so generously opened its doors to them. Our flawed constitution sealed the nation’s fate.
It wasn’t that way in the past. Before the Liberal governments of the ‘60s and ‘70s, immigrants were told they had to fit in. Work hard. Learn to speak English (or French in Quebec). Obey the law. There was no such thing as government health care, unemployment insurance or welfare, so you either worked or you went home.
Our cities are becoming more and more multicultural and less and less traditional Canadian.
If you think this is going to be an anti-immigration rant, it isn’t. We need more immigrants. I just think we have to ensure the people who come here (and I don’t care from where) have something to offer, share our values of hard work, respect for our laws and our traditions of equality and democracy.
For example, any prospective immigrant who believes women are not equal to men, or supports terrorism and political causes that tolerate it, should not be permitted into our country, let alone be given citizenship.
Our Canada in the past was a distinct presence in the world. We were Canadians without hyphens, a nation respected and envied. Not anymore. The multi-cult vultures have come home to roost and celebrate their presence with gunfire, violence, hatred, intolerance and criminality.
Oh, Canada.
John:
Well said. The media consistently ignores the fact that multi-culturalsim is a failure. To question it's success it seems, is not PC.
Too bad this important message is hidden away in your blog.
Posted by: Allan | July 03, 2006 at 10:42 AM
John, this is an excellent post as is the one preceding it. The only critique I have is for this line...
***If you think this is going to be an anti-immigration rant, it isn’t. We need more immigrants. I just think we have to ensure the people who come here (and I don’t care from where)***
I personally do not think we need more immigrants. What we need is more babies from the native population. The fertility rate, thanks to many liberal social engineering policies, is low in many western nations, including Canada. If people would have more children, we would not be trolling the third world for bodies to support the current Ponzi scheme of welfare and lavish social services. I also proffer that it is this same mass influx of extremely needy immigrants that place a huge financial burden on young people to have more children.
Secondly, not all immigrants are the same. Regardless how this may sound, many new "Canadians" have no idea what it means to be Canadian of old, nor do they really care.
The rest of your post is absolutely spot on, especially the part dealing with Trudeau.
Posted by: John | July 06, 2006 at 08:54 PM