Can this be good for Canada? Can Canada survive the aggressive, government financed creation of hundreds of competing cultures on its soil, especially when so many are drawn from Third World nations that are either Marxist in orientation or fatalist in their economic ways?…What happens when [these immigrants’] associations and lobby groups, government funded and full-time professional lobbyists [become militant] and proceed against the majority culture for their "rights" under our (discriminatory) Charter? I predict that our judges will be juggling one culture’s rights against another until doomsday.Evidently, there wasn't the Muslim problem then, or I'm sure Gairdner would have boldly included that in his book.
But, here is the disappointing part. In his "solutions" section, the only remedy he has for the mass influx of immigrants is to hold a nation-wide poll - an opinion poll, in effect - to ask Canadians what they think about all this. If their response is overwhelmingly negative, Gairdner then says that the government should act accordingly.
I'm not sure why Gairdner, in an otherwise bold book, should have backed away at this point. I don't think it was fear of being called "racist." Maybe it was his way of getting the whole country, and not just the corrupted leadership, to be invovled in the thoughts and decisions of such important events.
