John Ibbitson white he's got to be a mid-boomer at least, right?
What is he talking about. Why is it that people don't see themselves in their sweeping generalizations?
One again Ibittson is showing the world that his POV is as warped as his political bias is obvious.
I don't mind someone holding liberal ideals and arguing in favour of them. I support this. But Ibittson is so willing to pretend that the LPC is a blameless bastion of moral rectitude and the only source of vision in this country that he has no credibility.
As for the comment about Toronto being cosmopolitan.
I reject the inference that this is a result of the immigration factor. My observation and experience is that the growing sophistication in TO is a result mainly of the maturing of the local homegrown industries and arts.
Let's hope Mr. Ibbitson is correct. A coming confrontation between the rural, European Canada and the cosmopolitan diverse Canada will set the stage for a splintering of the nation. Let Vancouver and Toronto have their diversity and old Canada retain its homogeneity and we will soon see who will be the impoverished.
Posted at 2006-01-23 19:14:04 [PermaLink]"Mr Ibbitson seems to be equating two cities, Toronto and Vancouver, that are exceptional in terms of foreign-born population with the future of the country as a whole and its politics."
Look at the trend -- where is the population growth in Canada strongest? And who are those that are causing this growth? So isn't he correct?
As far as doing something about it, here you run up against the seemingly immovable object of racially sensitive political correctness, meaning the very nature of the problem -- that the vast majority of the influx is non-white and so threatens the historic demographic identity/heritage of Canada as a nation -- makes it nearly impossible to solve: I've not seen a political force that can move that object. Note the recent treatment of Jared Taylor in Halifax.