Cultural Importation Incompatible With Canadian Values

"I wouldn't suggest this is some novel condition that we're suddenly grappling with."

"[While the question doesn't appear often in polls, it's not the first time widespread Canadian endorsement of the notion that] there should be a little more of the melting pot than the mosaic [has been expressed by a large proportion of the Canadian public]."

Andrew Enns, executive vice-president, Leger market, research and analytics 

Canada's inimitable prime minister, Justin Trudeau, is extremely fond of expressing a trite little message to critics that "diversity is our strength", despite the increasingly obvious fact that the very diversity with which Canada has invested itself through its hunger for more bodies to populate this vast geographic area so that the workforce can be increased and more productivity can be seen, at the very time when he has himself shut down the operations of energy extraction production resulting in vast  unemployment numbers and a lack of responsible exploitation of natural resources. 

 

In the process overseeing an immigration system that has brought in populations from countries mired in conflict, religious zeal, and cultural traits incapable of integrating into Canada's value system. Canada's very security and that of its various populations from China, India, Africa and the Middle East have brought with them ancient and more recent issues of victimhood and violence. Now, a new poll reveals the extent to which Canadians in general react to these issues of discontent and importation into Canada of religious and tribal aggravations.

Canadians of every colour and derivation responding to a Leger/Postmedia poll have expressed skepticism of the prime minister's little maxim, believing that, given their experiences, that while diversity can have its benefits, it also brings with it problems. Respondents to the poll in the majority endorsed the belief that new immigrants should be encouraged to accept "values and traditions" already established within Canada's culture. And at the same time, discard the cultural identity issues that are "incompatible with Canada's".

A mixed view of diversity's benefits was favoured by 56 percent of respondents who, agreeing that "some elements of diversity can provide strength", nonetheless supported the reality that "problems" and "conflict" can also arise out of diversity. Only 24 percent saw diversity as an unambiguous "strength", while 21 percent characterized it as predominantly "problematical".

51 percent of respondents agreed that Canadian authorities "should do more to ensure newcomers accept Canadian values", and a higher 55 percent endorsed the idea that the country's immigration policy be premised on "encouraging newcomers to embrace broad mainstream values and traditions", leaving behind beliefs "that may be incompatible with that". 59 percent of white Canadians endorsed the "Canadian values" need, while 46 percent of non-whites did so.

 

Of Caucasians, 23 percent endorsed the counter-sentiment that newcomers be encouraged to "maintain and promote their own cultural and religious identities", that was endorsed by 38 percent of non-whites. Large, disproportionately immigrant-led demonstrations calling for the expulsion of "gender ideology" from public school curricula took place two months ago expressing social conservatism among immigrant communities not always synchronized with the various progressive frontiers championed by Canadian authorities. To be fair, many long-time Canadians found little sympathy with the "gender ideology" sentiments.

More latterly, Canadian cities have been gripped by the phenomenon of regular rallies responding to the Israel-Hamas conflict, since the national survey was conducted after the Palestinian Hamas terrorist group invaded Israel to commit an endless orgy of sadistic savagery victimizing helpless Israeli civilians, raping girls and women, mutilating and killing children, women and men and foreign farm workers on farms, in towns and villages and kibbutzim.

The well-attended, and raucous, normalcy-disturbing 'protests' billing themselves as 'pro-Palestinian' have been organized entirely by Israel-hostile groups such as Samidoun, the Palestinian Youth Movement and Toronto4Palestine, all of them on record as approving of the October 7 massacres in Israel, and all calling for the total destruction of the Jewish state. In the process creating a violent, threatening, disruptive chaos.

A few hundred Pro-Palestinian supporters held a rally on the steps of the TMU (formerly Ryerson) Student Learning Centre at Gould and Yonge Sts. on Friday October 20, 2023. Photo by Jack Boland / Postmedia Network

These groups have spared no effort to bring in official speakers who espouse Islamist extremism and using the vocabularies of pro-terror rhetoric, including a speaker in Toronto calling for Hamas to maintain control of the civilian hostages it took into Gaza for concessions forced on Israel. In Montreal an imam leading a street packed with demonstrators called out prayers to "kill" the "Zionist aggressors". The opening question of the survey found 78 percent of Canadians harboured concerns "over how the Gaza/Israel conflict is impacting Canadian communities".

The notion that non-citizens should face deportation "if they publicly express hatred toward a minority group or support a terrorist organization" was backed by 75 percent of respondents to the poll. That is a policy currently pursued across much of Europe, particularly in Germany when last month German Chancellor Olaf Scholz spoke to pro-Hamas rallies by stating his country should begin deporting ineligible migrants "on a large scale". In Canada, no mainstream Canadian political party has expressed similar solutions, as yet. 

 

A majority of Canadians, however rejected the basic tenets of "anti-racism" ideology -- now official federal policy --  which, through agencies like the Canadian Human Rights Commission and the Federal Anti-Racism Secretariat, openly pursue the belief that Canada's institutions are "systematically racist", and can be redeemed only through "deliberate systems and supports" that favour select "equity-seeking" groups.

In particular, the idea that "certain minority groups should be given additional rights and privileges in accordance with notions of decolonization, anti-racism and equity", was rejected by 50 percent of poll respondents, with only 24 percent backing the program.