>I wonder how much of that is simply for short term political gains. I think it has happened long enough ~150 years to prove it's not short term. Every single

>I wonder how much of that is simply for short term political gains. I think it has happened long enough ~150 years to prove it's not short term. Every single major immigration event in north america has benefitted us greatly. New orleans and french culture is still there from 1700s immigration 1850 famines brought tons of irish to the east coast producing places like notre dame. Germans went to midwest producing the auto industry and general huge success of detroit. filipino and jewish immigrants practically built the west coast in the 1930-1950s. That's kind of the thing. In the short term the new immigrants are often living in poverty and are hated, but long term immigration is super beneficial. In fact the arab spring was intentionally done to drive arabic immigrants to the developed world. We need them for the 2030 worker shortage. >"Multi-Culturalism" is pretty new (and accompanied by increasingly out of control immigration quotas) and seems to be aimed at pandering to multiple ethnic enclaves. Oh yes, north america has very bad identity politics since Obama. It has gone beyond pandering and leading into civil war for the usa. It's far worse in Canada because we actually removed our freedom of speech in place of 'hate speech'. So every politician now is a racist etc. Every single conservative leader has been called a racist or worse. Though there's also a more hidden agenda of mitigating our 2030 worker shortage issue. Canada is essentially bringing in a province worth of people every year in an attempt to mitigate. This has to be done from countries that were affected by WW1 but not WW2. >I mean not that long ago wasn't the official policy to discriminate against anyone not deemed Canadian enough (the French or Natives for instance)? ~10% of Canada's GDP is going toward building expensive housing. One of the highest in the world. Housing prices are skyrocketing because mortgages are being issued in illegitimate basis, but also because we're adding a province worth of people every year. That's a ton of housing being built.