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I grew up in the most "diverse" most "multicultural" part of Halifax. Many immigrants are good people who are just trying to make their own lives better. However, that doesn't change the fact the volume and persistence of the inflow has progressively ethnically cleansed where I grew up of Canadians. Then there is the clashing of cultures like immigrants demanding we stop traditions like singing happy birthday, or the national anthem, or demanding their foreign religions get equal status. The pervasive feeling of being out of place in your homeland when foreigners dominate all the service jobs with thick accents and little effort to even pretend to assimilate. The sporadic welcome sigh of relief when the service worker you interact with is a local and you no longer have to fight through a language barrier in your ancestral home to buy a muffin. Then you have a child and you go to the hospital and every time you feel like a foreigner where you grew up. The nurses are foreign. The doctors are foreign. The other patients in the waiting room are all foreign. Blessedly, you will find the occasional local who is still somehow employed and can rest easy not having language and cultural jargon complicating your healthcare visit. My life is profoundly made worse every single day by immigration. At no point is my life made remotely better. "But we wouldn't have enough doctors" yea we would moron everyone at the hospital waiting room is always a foreigner! Even at a family doctor easily 50% of the waiting room is foreign. Every time. This is all before we consider that they bid up housing prices, they bid down wages, and feckless politicians start kowtowing to foreign voting blocks who want to import whatever foreign customs the largest local group has here. Immigration is not intrinsically bad. Taken as an individual most immigrants are good people. Yet our system as it has existed since 1987 is immoral and only serves to destroy the Canadian people and enrich some corporate big wigs who make money off the labour arbitrage or inflated land values. The only people who support our immigration regime are those who wish to gain power by using the immigrants as voters, the immigrants themselves, or good slaves to a morally depraved merchant class who would sell their own mother for $5.

Assimilation exists and can be used to properly integrate immigrants but for assimilation to work there needs to not only be a small controlled number of migrants, but the state must consciously marginalize the trappings of foreign places. Foreign religions must be marginalized, foreign languages must be marginalized, foreign cultures must be marginalized. If those elements have equal status why would anyone assimilate? It is this fundamental categorical error that dooms "multiculturalism" to the death of a country. A country cannot exist as an arbitrary coalition of disparate ethno-religious identities that hold no bonds of fraternity, no shared common cultural corpus, no unified history. At best the country fractures into a loose alliance of unrelated segregated communities voting to oppress each other as discreetly as possible. At worst, one group becomes large and powerful enough to utterly crush and subjugate the rest. For what reason should the Anglo, or Franco Canadian people risk their oblivion on this? So that Tim Hortons can get cheap labour? Or Shopify now?