As you are, if I'm not mistaken, a Canadian citizen -- even if as something of an expatriate 😉🙂 -- you both might have some interest in some testimony by Salim Mansur before the House of Commons some 11 years ago:
Mansur: "We should not allow bureaucratic inertia to determine not only the policy but the existing level of immigrant numbers and source origin that Canada brings in annually. We have the precedent of how we selectively closed immigration from the Soviet bloc countries during the Cold War years, and we need to consider doing the same in terms of immigration from Muslim countries for a period of time given how disruptive is the cultural baggage of illiberal values that is brought in as a result.
We are, in other words, stoking the fuel of much unrest in our country, as we have witnessed of late in Europe.
Lest any member wants to instruct me that my views are in any way politically incorrect, or worse, I would like members to note that I come before you as a practising Muslim who knows out of experience, from the inside, how volatile, how disruptive, how violent, how misogynistic is the culture of Islam today and has been during my lifetime, and how it greatly threatens our liberal democracy that I cherish, since I know what is its opposite."
As you are, if I'm not mistaken, a Canadian citizen -- even if as something of an expatriate 😉🙂 -- you both might have some interest in some testimony by Salim Mansur before the House of Commons some 11 years ago:
Mansur: "We should not allow bureaucratic inertia to determine not only the policy but the existing level of immigrant numbers and source origin that Canada brings in annually. We have the precedent of how we selectively closed immigration from the Soviet bloc countries during the Cold War years, and we need to consider doing the same in terms of immigration from Muslim countries for a period of time given how disruptive is the cultural baggage of illiberal values that is brought in as a result.
We are, in other words, stoking the fuel of much unrest in our country, as we have witnessed of late in Europe.
Lest any member wants to instruct me that my views are in any way politically incorrect, or worse, I would like members to note that I come before you as a practising Muslim who knows out of experience, from the inside, how volatile, how disruptive, how violent, how misogynistic is the culture of Islam today and has been during my lifetime, and how it greatly threatens our liberal democracy that I cherish, since I know what is its opposite."
https://web.archive.org/web/20130727114554/http://www.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspx?DocId=5730680&Language=E&Mode=1#Int-7696927
https://web.archive.org/web/20121014190545/http://blogs.ottawacitizen.com/2012/10/12/salim-mansurs-senate-testimony-close-the-borders-to-muslim-immigrants/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salim_Mansur