Canadian Politics Today

You know that statistically your city is safer than the good old days, right?

I doubt that. We came close to setting an all-time record for murders last year, in addition to an all-time record for shootings. Most, apparently, coming from the 'immigrant community'.

But to clarify, I'm not nostalgic for the 50s (before my time) or even the 60s. I don't find today terrible. What I don't want is to see us looking like Germany or France or Sweden, with a large, sullen mass of foreigners in our midst who despise us because our ways are not their ways.

You know, the guy who has been cutting my hair for about the last twenty years is a Lebanese immigrant. You couldn't ask for a better immigrant. He's adapted to Canada, started a business, works hard, and is raising his kids as Canadians. But then... he's Christian. Give me 80,000 more guys like him instead of 40,000 Syrians and I won't complain.