Myth # 8 "It's 'hate' to oppose immigration"
Canadians were never consulted about changes to our national immigration
policy. Nor have we ever been permitted to permitted to vote on this issue.
Polls consistantly show that despite years
of propaganda, Canadians are just not convinced that they like, or
want, even more immigration.
The response to this discontent has been the insidious appearance of
op-ed pieces fretting over the cataclysmic possibility of a referendum.
"Referenda further marginalize minorities, lobby groups will become
impotent" and (Eek!) the loathed majority will determine policy -
kind of like a democracy. In one of the most recent polls commissioned
by the immigration department, (as usual, obtained only when the media
resorts to the Access to Information Act) a spokesman for Immigation Canada
said, "the surveys are used for setting his department's communications
strategy and not for setting policy." How gratifying to discover that
our concerns will directly affect the quality of propaganda we see next
year.
What kind of government forces an absolutely fundamental change on
the standing population and subsequently enforces that policy with ever-more
restrictive legislation? Canada reached the hog-wallow of lows when it
decided to demonize 'free speech' to a point where there is something vaguely
suspect about anyone unwise enough to endorse 'the idea of it' usually
qualified by "but of course, there have to be limits".
Why? What kind of truth needs so much protection? A healthy society
with prospects for the future welcomes debate in the spirit of fine tuning
a precision machine. No political party is committed to reforming Canadian
immigration and multicultural policy. It's become a sacred cow NO ONE really
likes to see wandering about and defecating, but saying so is 'racist',
'hatred' or, even worse, 'insensitive'.
Massive, crippling taxation, corrupt patronage appointments, treacherous
acts by faithless politicians, nest-feathering immigration lawyers cashing
in at both ends, all contribute to an oppressive climate of hopeless despair.
All of which seems little enough to demand of us. After all, it's easier
to live on your knees as a slave and face extinction, than it is to stand
up and speak out. Per capita, Canada accepts twice as many immigrants as
does either the US or Australia. Thus, the impact on Canadians is presumably
twice as great, and yet, it is the US and Australia where large, well-funded,
grass-roots immigration-reform lobbies flourish. Is that because of Canada's
government-sponsored climate of moral indignation and intimidation?