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a) the process of immigrant and minority integration is working better in Canada than in other countries; and
b) the multiculturalism policy plays a positive role in this process.
(Citizenship and Immigration Canada / The Current State Of Multiculturalism in Canada and Research Themes On Canadian Multiculturalism 2008-2010, http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/pdf/pub/multi-state.pdf)
This logic is reminiscent of how swimming in Lake Ontario (Toronto Beach) was handled a few years ago. Deemed too toxic to swim in, the government raised the danger threshold for Lake Ontario, and with no change in toxicity levels the lake was suddenly “safe” to swim in.
Immigrants in Canada have traditionally voted Liberal. Notwithstanding that so-called diverse-culture communities outnumber the English and French communities in Canada, their representation in government institutions is low.
Two months ago we could have blamed Harper. The newly elected Prime Minister has essentially maintained the status quo.
The Italian-Canadian community in Canada, for example, constitutes approximately 15% of the Canadian population. Yet not one Italian-Canadian Member of Parliament has been selected to Trudeau’s cabinet out of total number of twelve.
As Lysiane Gagnon stated in her November 11, 2015 Globe and Mail article: “’A cabinet that looks like Canada!’ Prime Minister Justin Trudeau exclaimed as he introduced his ministers. But this was false on several counts. A cabinet that includes no one of Italian or Chinese origin, a cabinet without Arabs, a cabinet without a single black person – while Sikhs (who comprise about 1.4 per cent of the Canadian population) hold four cabinet posts – is not a true portrait of Canada.”
TVO’s Steve Paikin also questioned Trudeau’s Perfect Cabinet: “In some respects, it is a bit shocking. The Italian-Canadian community has always demonstrated overwhelming support for the Liberal Party of Canada… Let's remember, putting a cabinet together is almost by definition an impossible undertaking… Satisfying every constituency is a hopeless task. Nevertheless, the absence of any Italian presence in a Liberal cabinet is noteworthy.”
As Paikin explains, there has been some backlash to the criticism: “Another Liberal with whom I spoke last night — not an Italian — had less patience for the criticism. This source admitted, yes, Italians are under-represented in this cabinet, but added they’ve been over-represented in previous cabinets… ‘No one complained we had too many Italians back then,’ this source said.”
For the record, at no time in Canadian history have Italian-Canadians constituted a percentage in any cabinet greater than what Italian-Canadian community in Canada would warrant demographically.
The following statistic is also telling. Justice Mary Lou Benotto is the first Italian-Canadian to be appointed to the Ontario Court of Appeal. Year? 2013.
Constitutional lawyer Rocco Galati explained chapter and verse of Canadian Multiculturalism:
"The word "multiculturalism" evokes, in Toronto, images of a sausage-fest on College Street's "Little Italy," or a Souvlaki-fest on the Danforth's "Greek Town," Kebob-fests on Gerrard Street's South Asian Quarter, or any of the other food-fests, dance-fests, and bikini contests, on selected steamy summer days."
But while you eat to the sub-standard musical bands, and their even worse tunes, do not entertain any legal, cultural, or political notions of "multiculturalism." They do not exist.
The political, cultural, and legal parameters of "multiculturalism" come down to this: Anglo-Saxons (philes) and "Pure Wool" Quebecois are a superior animal to everyone else, including native Canadians, and the rest of us can "enjoy" and "celebrate" our "multiculturalism." So, while you are chomping down on a sausage, souvlaki, chapatti, or kebob, during one of these fests, try and digest a bit of politics and law.
In 1982, when the Charter of Rights was enacted, s. 27 was included and it reads:
This Charter shall be interpreted in a manner consistent with the preservation and enhancement of the multicultural heritage of Canadians.
Does this mean a right to public funding of non-denominational schools other than those of the Anglo and Franco majorities? No. The Supreme Court of Canada slammed that door. Only the two superior races have those language rights.
Does it mean funding of hospitals, which serve "multiculturalism"? No. French-speaking hospitals have the right say the Courts, and obviously the rest will be English.
Does it mean any proportionate airtime on the publicly funded CBCs, TVOs, and other public airwaves? Not a chance. You have to struggle for "private" CRTC licenses.
Does it mean representative judicial or civil servant appointments? Burst a hernia laughing at that notion. No more than 1.7% of all upper Federal civil servants are of non-Anglo or non-Franco origin. The federal judiciary is no more racially integrated than was South Africa's under Apartheid. There are no non-white judges at the Supreme Court of Canada, Federal or Tax Courts of Canada. Pushers of multiculturalism will point to the rare, token, too often conservative appointments, which serve the master races, as the opiate of success. The numeric and demographic sobriety and cold turkey tells a different story.
This "multiculturalism" sees the cultural descendants of Caesar, Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Galileo, Meucci, Marconi and Fermi relegated to serving sausage on College Street, and the cultural descendants of Aristotle, Plato, Socrates, the Souvlaki on the Danforth, and the Indo and Arab races, who gave us, amongst other things the zero, mathematics, and our entire western cultural legacy back in the Middle Ages, by translating from Arabic what we had burnt and lost in Latin and Greek, are in turn busy fending off the envelope of "terrorism."
For many Canadians, growing into less is embedded in our Constitution.
Canada is officially less than Canada