Immigration and immigrants are a hard topic to discuss on
many levels, but if we use history as an example for part of it maybe we can
come to some type of common ground.
I came across an obituary where a gentleman’s father had
immigrated to Canada in 1928 and was joined a year later by his wife and three
oldest children. He came from a Polish/German background and came to Canada to
make a better life for his family, which they did. The obituary is his son’s
who was born here in Canada in 1935.
The difference between the immigrants of yesteryear and today
is the changes that are being made to accommodate new immigrants and refugees.
Back then, immigrants in most cases came with nothing but
the cloths on their backs and worked hard to bring their families over who also
then had to work hard to make a life for themselves here in Canada, that or
starve, there were no handouts, grants or health care.
While we have progressed in the last one hundred years and
can help those who desperately need it, those immigrants from the past came to Canada
knowing what they wanted and worked hard to achieve it.
Which was a new start, in a new land, they knew that the
laws would be different and if they were to break those laws it was back to
where ever they came from now, not after hearings and delays. If they broke a
law they were kicked out of our country no “ifs, ands or buts” about it.
In the past they came here for all sorts of change, from
being able to farm land to explore to starting a business, immigrants over the
last one hundred years have tried and succeeded in adapting to Canada’s way of life.
They settled into Canada, not the other way around.
Immigrants came here
because of what Canada offered…a better life. They saw what Canada was about
and wanted to be a part of it, not try to change it. These immigrants became CANADIAN.
They worked hard to
help Canada become a great nation that was known for its generosity, its patriotism,
its kindness and its military stance as PEACE KEEPERS.
But today we are finding new immigrants coming to Canada and
want to CHANGE Canada. They want Canada to be the way their old country is in their laws and
religions. They want Canada to defend their rights but they will not allow us
to be Canadian.
A good example is if you apply for a social benefit in
Saskatchewan you are classed as OTHER if you are Canadian. There is no box to
mark if you are born and raised here in Canada. There is a box if you are a
native, but even if you are 4th, 5th, 6th
generation Canadian…DO NOT say you are a Native Canadian that is a no-no. There
is a box if you are an immigrant, well if your great grandparents have been in
Canada you are no longer classed as an immigrant. Métis and Refugee both have
boxes to check, but alas if you are a born and bred Canadian looking for a “handout”
you are classed as an OTHER as far as the Government of Saskatchewan is
concerned.
Our traditions are questioned, saying “Merry Christmas” is
frowned upon for fear of offending someone other than a Christian and our laws
are being changed to accommodate instead of immigrants learning to adapt to our
way of life. Unlike with past immigrants, new immigrants are the ones who are
changing our society and this is where many people in ALL of North America have
the problem.
So why can immigrants today not adapt to Canadian life like
in yesteryear…because we allow them to change our society. We allow the changes
to happen.
Other countries have allowed these same immigrants into
their countries but have said, “NOPE, these are our laws, these are our
traditions, this is our society…conform or leave.” They either conform or they
come to Canada, where they are allowed to tell Canadians that we are not
allowed to say or do this or that and if we do, we are RACIST.
We are “racist” if we believe that immigrants should be
adapting to Canadian Law and Canadian Ways which are now being changed to say that
we are being racist by saying they need to adapt to Canadian law and Canadian
way.
We do not believe that immigrants should have to give up
their religions or their beliefs. Many of us do however believe that they can
keep it to themselves for instance...
Inequality is flowing deeply for Canadians, Why would it be
ok for a Muslim woman to where a burka, which is not a religious garment, in
government photo ID but I am not allowed to wear a baseball cap? Muslim boys
are allowed to wear a Kirpan to school but my son cannot carry a Swiss army
knife to school...a knife is a knife is a knife. Religious or not, it will kill
someone if it is stuck into them.
Our country is about equality, so women have as many rights
as men, women do not have to hide themselves here in Canada behind clothing,
and with terrorists traveling left, right and center, hiding behind black
clothing from head to toe with only eye slits makes people suspicious. How do I
know you are a woman and how do I know you do not have a huge gun under those
cloths? Trust is a huge thing and when you come here making demands but give
little in return, like getting rid of the demeaning clothing, I am not going to
trust that you have Canada’s best interests at heart.
Our country is about tolerance, we allow religions to build
their temples and practice their religions freely, ALL religions have this
right here in Canada respect that or go back to where ever you came from. Canada
was founded on Christian beliefs, you may not agree with those beliefs and some
of those beliefs may even be outdated, but this is Canada you can take it or
leave it we are not going to change our belief system that has done us just
fine over the last 150 years just because you say so. Pack your bags and head
home if you don’t like the Christian values this country was born from.
Our country is about peace, over the last few decades wars
that are being drawn out in countries overseas have been dragging Canada’s
military into fighting battles. When you come to Canada, you leave that behind
and become CANADIAN, do not beg our government to save your country. You want
to save it, go back and fight for it.
Canada’s military has been known World Wide for its peace
keeping missions, now we are becoming as hated as the American military because
of our interference into other countries ideologies. That interference is from
different causes, one of them being from new immigrants insisting we fight the battle
that is going on in their countries, maybe?
What I do not understand, if it is that important why are
these people not staying and fighting for their country themselves? That doesn’t
sound very patriotic to the old country or the new one. Not something a Canadian
from yesteryear would have done. Many of which went to war against their
neighbors during the World Wars, as CANADIANS.
Some of us Canadians do believe that if immigrants thought
that Canada was great enough to immigrate to then they shouldn’t have the right
to try to change it.
If they truly want to live with the laws and lifestyle that
they came from without the danger, they need to return to their home countries
and fight for their freedom without coming to Canada and changing our society
to suit them.
I am not saying that new immigrants do not work hard or do
not deserve to be here; I am saying that immigrants in the past did not have
things handed to them like grants and loans to help upgrade their education so
they can find better jobs here than they would in their old countries, health
care to pay for medical bills that never would have happened in their old
countries or help bringing family over from their old countries, help to
support those family members and an education for their children.
These are the things that aggravate Canadians, we have to
adapt to the immigrants lifestyles but they get the benefits of being Canadian
and Canada is being changed to suit the majority of immigrants and refugees,
who seem to be coming from the Middle East.
While many Canadians that were born and raised here need to
start being more grateful for what they have, new immigrants need to appreciate
that they are coming to a country that has great qualities, this country does
not need to be changed. They wouldn’t be here otherwise.
If we are going to set a law, the law has to stand for ALL
people, no exceptions. Race and Religion should not come into the picture EVER.
We are all human beings, which is all that matters…not race,
not religion, not sexual orientation…nothing matters but that we are human.
PEACE
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