Inviting immigrants into Canada and then insisting this country's culture and traditions must be diminished to accommodate them is like inviting people to your house for dinner and repainting the living room because you're afraid the guests won't like the colour scheme. You wouldn't do that. You'd say, "This is my home and this is how I decorated it." Period. That's what Canada — and most recently, Quebec — needs to do.Well said! Except that immigrants aren't really invited into Canada. They're given the opportunity to be admitted to Canada as immigrants. Getting a permanent residence visa takes at least a couple years and costs about $1500 per adult. So it's hard to imagine anyone willing to launch this lengthy and costly process without taking his time to look up Canada in the encyclopedia to find out at least the basic facts about the country he'd like to move into.
And it would be reasonable to assume that if a prospective immigrant chooses to proceed with the application - that also means he chooses to accept Canada "as is". he is welcome to contribute to Canada's cultural mosaic but he can't demand any preferential treatment just because he's different, let alone trying to reshape Canada so it looks more like the country he chose to leave in the first place.
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