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> People feeling likes many immigrant communities are creating enclaves instead of adopting the culture of Canada.

Every immigrant community creates enclaves. Quebec is an enclave the size of a province.

> Many recent immigrants are unskilled, resulting in a larger burden on provincial-based social services.

I can find NO evidence for this whatsoever, do you have any?




It is important to differentiate between immigrants vs temporary workers and foreign students. What Canadians seem to have issue with is the latter, which is being abused by Canadian companies.

The anger should be aimed at the rich in Canada abusing the system, as well as the paid for politicians enabling the abuse. It shouldn’t be aimed at the newcomers.


Hard to say Quebec is an enclave.... It is quite literally the founding half of the country.


It’s an immigrant community that refused to integrate into the culture that existed there before them. If that sounds ridiculous it is because this entire conversation is ridiculous.


> It’s an immigrant community that refused to integrate into the culture that existed there before them.

Wow. Wow, wow, wow, you're in need of a major history lesson, like how the British first basically committed genocide with the expulsion of the Acadia French, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expulsion_of_the_Acadians, and then when they realized that was a collosal fuck up they explicitly put policies in place to not expel the rest of the French in Quebec and deliberately treat them as second class citizens.


Where did the Acadians come from? Sounds like another immigrant enclave.


Again I think you might need to educate yourself on Canadian history.

The French that founded Quebec where here predated the English that eventually founded the county of Upper / Lower Canada... You might have a misunderstanding of what the term immigrant means.


No, I understand perfectly. The difference between your definition and mine is that your definition of immigrant is “anyone who is not white”.


I'm not even sure how to respond to this...

It is so ignorant of the definition I don't even know how to find common ground.




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