"While Canada has a good-sized immigrant population," he said, "it is not nearly as vast as people like to let the CBC delude them into thinking ... I think the military is a fairly solid representation of the actual multicultural Canada.[Read it all]
"It's sort of like the difference between the French Resistance of romantic memory and the actual, substantially smaller French Resistance."
Our vision of our country's makeup is skewed, no doubt bolstered by years of ethnically unbalanced government propaganda and advertising posters. It turns out our fallen sons, and one daughter, reflect Canada as, outside the major cities, she remains.
**********
RELATED: More pavilions at folkfest
"Diversity is no organizing principle; it’s a fact of existence. It’s part of the human condition. It’s neither to be swept under the carpet nor to be run up the flagpole."*
"It’s neither the solvent of nationhood nor its glue."