Who said anything about diversity? I'm talking about open borders with lax controls. about lax immigration standards. About allowing trade policy to overstep national security and border sovereignty.
I rather like Canada's point based system for immigration. Judging from recent articles I've read I would de emphasis gov't sponsored refugees over private ones as they are far more successful. Just as I predicted.
Feel free to add people so long as they don't have cultural values that conflict with the social and economic values in our Capitalist, Liberal Democracy.
I don't care what color they are. Where they are from.
I care they want to enhance Canadian Culture. Not transfer there own.
The idea that "all opposition to diversity is bigotry" is a textbook example of circular reasoning. It
presumes that diversity is always good, instead of seeking to prove it. In my opinion, it seems implausible that diversity must always be good. While diversity may be the heart of evolution, nature rejects and abandons its bad ideas.
Most people would acknowledge that there is such a thing as "progress" that can be applicable to all aspects of life. Since progress requires change, people need to be open to different ideas. However, it is trite to say that not all ideas are valuable, nor an improvement upon what already exists.
It is also illogical to assume that any change that has been adopted and tried represents "progress", and that rolling back such changes must therefore represent "regression". Truth is that people are fallible, and sometimes it takes the observation of an idea in practice to illustrate its flaws. Enlightened thinking would be to reverse errors that had unforeseen negative impacts, not entrench them.
Since Canada is a sovereign nation (although perhaps the debate arises because some take issue with this), Canadians are entitled to determine the ways in which they believe Canadian life could or should be improved, and also determine what means they are prepared to adopt to improving it. Canadians are entitled to choose NOT to change what they perceive to be the values associated with Canadian culture. Since we are a democracy, that choice can be made democratically.
Lastly, the idea that preferring one thing is the same as hating another is also clearly illogical. A man who loves to eat chicken does not despise a man who prefers to eat fish. However, if stocking the supermarket with fish would mean restricting or even eliminating the chicken for purchase, the chicken eating man would be understandably upset. And if he had the political power to prevent the change, he would.
In my opinion, "diversity is strength" belongs on the same shelf as other simplistic dogma.