Canada is a Country of the Descendants of Its French and English Founders
By A Canadian Patriot
As STATS CAN immigration figures show, Canada has had a big change in its sources of immigrants. For example, according to the 1861 Census, most immigrants came from the British Isles. After 1861, a minor change occurred : there were waves from other European countries and the U.S. As Chart 5 on the STATS CANADA site shows, a much bigger change occurred from the 1960’s onward. At that time, there were two major shifts in the source countries of Canada’s immigration: (1) There was a significant decrease in the percentage of immigrants from key western nations – in particular, the British Isles and the USA. (2) There was a big increase in the percentage from Asia, North and Sub-Saharan Africa and Central and South American nations, etc. There was also an increase in the percentage of Middle Eastern immigrants.
The people from non-traditional source countries brought their ideologies, ethnic loyalties, values, cultures, norms, beliefs, and conflicts to Canada. The end result is that in 1871,the percentage of immigrants from the British Isles was 80%. By 1991, that percentage was down to under 20%. In a very biased statement, supposedly-neutral STATS CAN says that this was “an increase in diversity”. The truth is that the “diversity” rhetoric from liberals, leftists and “progressive conservatives” as well as their mainstream media friends has been focused on the belief that there are positive impacts from immigration from non-western nations. What STATS CAN, the Left, liberals and “progressive conservatives” and media ignore or downplay are the significant negative impacts of such a shift. For instance, what benefit to the average Canadian citizen came from this demographic transformation? What is the long term projection for our population composition? If research from Harvard (Putnam) as well as human history is true, when a country has groups of people with increased diversity in ideologies, religions, ethnicities and values, there is a much greater likelihood of conflict, power struggles, etc.
I would add that that the often-repeated slogan, “We are a nation of immigrants” is a deceitful justification for admitting more immigrants. In fact, we are not a nation of immigrants because for most of our history, we have been a nation of mostly European descendants born in Canada. And even by more recent standards such as the 2011 National Household Survey which estimated that the foreign born population was 20.6% of the total population, we were still not a nation of immigrants. We were and still are a nation of people mostly born in Canada with a smaller segment born elsewhere.
One other important point : We keep hearing that we are and have been a “multicultural nation”. That statement implies that Canadians approved of immigration changes. It is utter deceit. In fact, until the 1960’s, we were a nation of two cultures. French and English made up the majority of our country. There were other cultures (ethnic populations), but they were a vast minority. Multiculturalism and the change in the source countries of Canada’s immigrants has been forced on Canadians. None of us were given a chance to vote on it. Worse still, multiculturalism has become a virtual religion. And now the religion of multiculturalism has taken such a hold on Canada, that criticizing it is tantamount to blasphemy. Anyone who dares to question it is seen as the lowest form of life that must be tarred, feathered and locked in a public stockade. Canada was not broken. Why was it “fixed”?
One last point : Our population keeps increasing. And immigration is the key factor contributing to this increase. In the 1960’s, Canada’s population was in the 20 million range. Now, 5-6 decades later, it is over 36 million. Inevitably, breeding of recent immigrants will increase that number. Has this increase improved the relative quality of life for Canadian citizens? I don’t believe it has.
And so why on earth should we continue to support the key driver of this population increase, namely, high immigration numbers? It makes no sense to me. And as much as I keep hearing the rhetoric of the left, liberals and “progressive conservatives”, that we need more immigration to sustain our way of life and our economy, I don’t believe it.Three major federal studies contradict this nonsense and back me up. Moreover, all I see are the downsides. Even the Parliamentary Budget Office says it will cost Canadians $1 billion over 3 years just to cover the costs of the fake refugees at our Eastern border. Remember : Those people arrived because of Trudeau’s virtue-signalling blunder in 2015. That blunder has evolved into accepted inevitability. If Trudeau does nothing, about 50,000 more fake refugees will probably arrive this year.
Furthermore, I see a rise in Asian gang crime, Somalian gang crime, Islamic fundamentalism and the negative impacts of a major increase in populations in our major urban centres. For example, property values in Metro Vancouver and Toronto are out of reach for many of our children. Why are they so high? Because wealthy Asians have speculated with our property. And so, whatever the benefits of immigration, those benefits are vastly outweighed by the negatives, especially if you are a European- descended “Old Stock” Canadian.
It’s time to put the brakes on immigration.