A - I don't care about thread drift. Like I said that, isn't a thing here.
Which I appreciate. I just think this topic deserves its own thread, so i made one.
B - I lived in Winnipeg for 4 years.
Winnipeg has few non-European immigrants, and virtually no non-Christian immigrants. There's virtually no Muslims in Winnipeg as far as I can see in the statistics (i'm not saying Muslims are bad, im just making a point). It's not the same as living in Toronto or Vancouver or Montreal the last few decades, which has seen huge cultural/demographic changes, where white majorities have turned to white minorities in many cities in these areas. Many people, naturally (tribalism) have become uncomfortable with this. There's issues of culture, which is much different than economic issues. We can't ignore how people feel. Quebec, for instance, has a culture it wishes to preserve.
I am a minority as a white in the area that I live in.
True, which is a valuable experience i'm sure honestly. But a white minority among first-nations on a reserve is much different than being a minority among immigrants in Toronto/GTA or Vancouver area, where 30 years ago they were a majority. The biggest cities in Canada have underground unbelievable demographic & cultural changes.
Immigrants are less likely to commit crimes and tend to be more educated than native born Canadians. Refugees are a totally different thing, and we are obligated to receive them, and I'm proud that we do. People with brown skim simply don't scare me.
This is a complex question, regarding crime. Overall, over the long term, the average immigrant commits less crime. That's because most immigrants come via economic class, so they're educated and can get a decent job, or are married to someone who has a decent job. Canada gets a lot of economic immigrants from China and India for instance, and they on average do well as especially as their time in Canada increases and they kind secure employment.
Statistically, the problem comes with low income immigrants, which especially new and recent immigrants (less than 10 years) from certain continents/countries, such as most parts of Africa and south/central America/Caribbean and some parts of Asia.
This is especially a problem with refugees, since 1. refugees on average don't know english/french as well or at all, compared to regular immigrant classes, and therefore securing employment is more difficult, 2. we don't discriminate on who we take as refugees based on their education or income level, so refugees are much lower in these areas, again contributing to crime for them and their children etc, and 3. many refugees come from some of the poorest and most violent places in the world, and they can sometime bring some of that behavioral culture to Canada. This combines to result in areas of cities with a concentration of low income immigrants from certain countries (ie: lots of Somali refugees) where crime including violent crime is high.
Some of this can be explained in this academic paper, which also supports some of your claims (see table 14):
http://www.clsrn.econ.ubc.ca/workingpapers/CLSRN%20Working%20Paper%20no.%20135%20-%20Zhang.pdf
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