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I'm still trying to figure out Stephen Harper's bold move to close the Canadian embassy in Iran, and now his government's decision to strip over 3,000 immigrants off their fraudulently obtained Canadian citizenship. Most of these "immigrants" are from the Middle East, which is a euphemistic word for saying that they are Muslims.
I think Harper is trying to make Canada safer, and to remove dangerous enemies. But, he is doing it in a straightforward, almost clumsy manner.
Multiculturalism is now the norm for both liberal and conservative leaders. In fact, talking against multiculturalism, and evoking the differences in races, cultures and civilizational backgrounds of people would be tantamount to racism.
I think Harper really does believe in racial harmony, where as long as there are no immediate, violent, elements in an identifiable group of people (through religion, race, etc.) that such a group of people should be able to live without interference with the rest of Canadian society. After all, that is why they came to safe and stable Canada in the first place.
So, an increase in the Asian population in Canada, brought on mainly by immigration, and which will continue to grow over the foreseeable future since Harper is not showing any signs of reducing Asian immigration into Canada, is a good thing for Harper.
1) I don't think he believes that the Chinese will overwhelm Canadian society.
3). He believes that these Chinese immigrants will mix and integrate with the rest of Canadian society and adhere to the mainstream culture (which he would be hard-pressed to define if asked).
3). If there is some cross-over, and Chinese culture surfaces in some cases, that is a good since cultural variety is good for Canada.
4). He believes that the off-spring of these Chinese (whether Chinese, half-Chinese, or any combination), and all other immigrant offspring, will become "Canadian" first, and not refer to their countries of origin for self-identification, since "Canada" is all they know.
5). He believes that with constant "Canadian identity" references, pride in Canada, cultural and historical education of immigrants (and all Canadians), other identities will take the back-burner and will surface only at specially sanctioned cultural holidays and festivals.
6). And since people have the right to follow their cultural roots, then Muslims can be Muslims in Canada, as long as they don't show illegal behavior, like procuring false citizenship cards, or plotting to blow up buildings and people in the name of Allah.
So, it is much easier to close diplomatic missions to the Islamic, nuclear weapon acquiring, Israel-threatening Iran, and to deport criminal immigrants (criminal because of fraudulent behavior), rather than to address the long-term destruction of Canada through stealthy take over by alien cultural groups, who legally enter the country through an already established immigration system.
And here is more hot-of-the press news, from the September 7 Ottawa Citizen:
Stephen Harper’s five new senators [appointed last Friday] reflect ethnic diversityHere are the two new "ethnic" senators:
A former Progressive Conservative politician from New Brunswick, a citizenship judge who fled Vietnam and the first Filipino-Canadian elected in Canada’s largest city are among the crop of new additions to the Senate with the...two making history as the first from their ethnic groups to sit in the Red Chamber.The three others are:
Former Action Democratique du Quebec candidate and economist Diane Bellemare fills a vacant seat in Quebec, while former Nova Scotia Tory cabinet minister Thomas McInnis and New Brunswick lawyer Paul McIntyre fill vacancies in their home provinces.
