Ok, my 2c for what it counts.....
I am not racist, far from it....there are great people and absolute arseholes...regardless of race, creed or colour...but my observations having been in this country for 5 years....yes I am an Immigrant...Yes LancsLad, I am from the other side of the pennines.......
Speaking as a former Insurance Broker...the standard of driving in Canada is pretty poor across the board... Avoidable accidents happen to everyone, even myself by poor judgment recently....but... I have to say, some of the more 'interesting' claims I saw came from clients of asian extraction... Also the highest maintenance clients I dealt with were of asian extraction. If I were to localise it more, I would have to say clients from the Phillipines....but this may well be only the brokerage I worked for.
I am no longer an insurance broker, I now work in the IT field, managing the IT envoironment for a global company, and again some of our strangest problems come from the AsiaPac region.
I use the Go train to get to work frequently, and when I am on the night shift, I am arriving back at the go station at around 8am. Recently I find that when I come out of the station and head to my car, there are people waiting in the Kiss&Ride who follow people arriving back to their vehicles simply to get their parking space....These individuals are always asian (based on 1 weeks observation).This simply would not occur to me to do. I would find a space and walk. I like to play silly buggers.....I go to my car, put my bags in, grab some change then walk back to the store or coffee shop to buy something...leaving the individual who has followed me to my space frustrated.
I want to reiterate, I am not prejudiced, I have good friends of many extractions...but I do take the piss out of everyone equally, starting with myself... Hell I come from a country that ran most of the world on Tea and cunning use of flags..... It takes all sorts to make a world and a society..and you have to admit, life would be bloody boring if it didnt.....