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Originally Posted by Nouvellecosse
I agree that it's different, but i don't agree that the differences are particularly relevant. I suppose what it comes down to is that i fundamentally reject the idea of governments or majority groups regulating cultural differences beyond areas of functional necessity.
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This is okay as a personal position but you're talking about your view, not politics and the plurality of views out there. We are in a democracy and different people will have a different sense of what they're comfortable with. If they get shut down by a technocratic or moralistic view of how their concerns aren't valid, they will tend to find new political outlets. See the US, which violently shifted from Democrats who denied concerns about immigration (some racist, some valid, some not) to a president who actively promotes racist policies for political gain. It would have been better for the Democrats to engage with the concerns.
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With the current points system, it's difficult to impossible to get in without speaking either official language.
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I think this was falling apart a bit with temporary status ("TFW") and family unification. The explanation that immigration always goes well in Canada so we shouldn't worry about it has weakened somewhat. I think we should separate support for immigration or tolerance of or affinity toward cultural diversity from support for any specific policies.
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