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Citizenship and Immigration Canada calls a certain type of immigrant "New Canadians." It is a strategy to make these groups "accepted" into Canadian society, but the question never arose to those who concocted the term whether these groups wants to be Canadians at all.
This family of Muslims, speaking the guttural Arabic language, were sitting behind me at the C-Cafe's patio. They didn't order anything from the cafe, but used the benches to camp out, and to eat the lunch they brought with them.
The woman is pregnant with a fourth child (a boy, this time?), and later on, she left with one of the children in a stroller, to take her to the daycare centre in front of the cafe.
These "new Canadians" will never be "old Canadians" but will carry with them, eternally, their Middle Eastern identity. They will pay lip service to Multiculturalism, but will have no desire to mingle with other ethnic groups to make that much touted "melting pot."
Such is multiculturalism. Canadians give everything away, each group of "new Canadians" take it all and keep it for themselves.