Multiculturalism Has Failed
German Chancellor, Angela Merkel said it first. She apparently is the only one to have the guts to state the obvious (with anger and claims of bigotry, of course, she now has to deal with) of something that has been showing it's limitations and problems for years now, if not decades already.
Up in Canada, we've had to deal with the government (that's both the Conservative and especially the Liberal parties) bending over backwards to not only"help" immigrants assimilate into Canadian culture, but to help them not to. They are not only given government jobs on a whim, it seems, better than average apartments and tax incentives on homes. Add in the fact that they receive about $2000 when they set up shop here, but they receive more on their monthly government subsidy checks than the average citizen. About $700 more on average.
Nobody is saying they don't deserve a chance to succeed and make a better life for themselves and their families, but to be given government hand-outs while the rest of Canadians that have put into the economy via taxation are more than a little perturbed at this and rightfully so. It doesn't bode well when the rest of your populace has to scrimp and save and be overtaxed, when new Canadians are pretty much waited on hand and foot by the government. This is not bigotry, this is fact. Equality is not treating one segment of the population any better than the rest.
In 2006 Ontario premier, Dalton McGuinty (yes, that is real name) was an inch from giving Muslims in Ontario Sharia law, in which they would govern and supposedly police themselves, much like how natives/Aboriginals do. Not all, but many in Ontario and especially Quebec. If it wasn't for Muslim women crying foul due to their knowledge of how Sharia law treats women in Islam, it would be a reality today.
While it is a different story in the U.S, Thomas Sowell makes it clear that it's not all that together different.
Yes, we can all get along and prosper. We all deserve to have peacful, productive lives. All of us. But, there's more to it than beautiful dresses and exotic food.
Up in Canada, we've had to deal with the government (that's both the Conservative and especially the Liberal parties) bending over backwards to not only"help" immigrants assimilate into Canadian culture, but to help them not to. They are not only given government jobs on a whim, it seems, better than average apartments and tax incentives on homes. Add in the fact that they receive about $2000 when they set up shop here, but they receive more on their monthly government subsidy checks than the average citizen. About $700 more on average.
Nobody is saying they don't deserve a chance to succeed and make a better life for themselves and their families, but to be given government hand-outs while the rest of Canadians that have put into the economy via taxation are more than a little perturbed at this and rightfully so. It doesn't bode well when the rest of your populace has to scrimp and save and be overtaxed, when new Canadians are pretty much waited on hand and foot by the government. This is not bigotry, this is fact. Equality is not treating one segment of the population any better than the rest.
In 2006 Ontario premier, Dalton McGuinty (yes, that is real name) was an inch from giving Muslims in Ontario Sharia law, in which they would govern and supposedly police themselves, much like how natives/Aboriginals do. Not all, but many in Ontario and especially Quebec. If it wasn't for Muslim women crying foul due to their knowledge of how Sharia law treats women in Islam, it would be a reality today.
While it is a different story in the U.S, Thomas Sowell makes it clear that it's not all that together different.
Yes, we can all get along and prosper. We all deserve to have peacful, productive lives. All of us. But, there's more to it than beautiful dresses and exotic food.
posted by Northern Exposer at 04:58
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