Seeing that pauline marois has alerted us in quebec, and by extension other parts of this country, to the dangers of multiculturalism viz. bombings and beatings, and gawd only knows what else, is anyone here remotely influenced by her pronouncements, or indeed is Canada headed down this road to disaster?

I've lived in and around Toronto for 30 odd years. It's multicultural, successfully so. That means that everyone hates the members of some other ethnic group while being indifferent to the rest of the ethnic groups; a balance of hatreds is what keeps an even keel. For myself, I hate the harridan cradles.

Most of those bombings and beatibgs were about omniculturalism, trying to impose your culture on others. Multiculturalism is about accepting and tolerating other cultures whether you like them or not. (Ref. Dbd33)

Pauline who -what?

Well Mike when you get to Toronto - after being here a year or so, maybe in between visit the areas & spend a day looking around, shopping at Coxwell & Gerrard or Dundas St West & Spadina, maybe College & Bathurst - Ossington and there's more ...

As of 2011 Montreal city with a population of 1.6 million is 31.7% visible minorities, compared to Toronto' city's 2.6 million that has a visible minority of 49% which is fairly close to the total population of Montreal eh!.

Who knows, maybe in another five years the white folks will be the minority in Toronto

Being here for 46 years, I just love Canada and its multiculturalism- it grows on you

(Paul Marois, premier of Quebec)

White folks in the minority, it may well come to that but a tragedy it would not be since Canada, overall, has a good track record when it comes to visible minorities.

Posted on a thread of yours in 2008, you said that you've been in Canada what almost 51 years (as of 2013) & spent time as a youngster in India in the late 50's - so it would seem - me thinks, that multiculturalism is not an issue to you?

It isn't too me

Yes I was in a school, run by Australian Jesuits, with many Hindus and many Muslims and maybe 5 Catholics. We all got along fine

Mike in your OP you asked a question ; "is anyone here remotely influenced by her pronouncements, or indeed is Canada headed down this road to disaster?"

Are you influenced by what she said?

BTW, I couldn't give a 'you know what' about what any politician has to say about anything

No I am not influenced and what I wrote was meant as mild sarcasm as I very much doubt anyone at this forum would be influenced by her.

Nevermind multiculturalism, I'm simply pleased that MontrealMike has turned his CAPS key off prior to starting the thread.

that was purely unintentional

I so happened to have gone back to the same titled thread of a few years back and, lazy me, did a copy job

for sure shard, cos in Toronto folks don't tend to shout too much - speak in all kinds of non distinguishable languages - which Mike will find out when he gets here ..EH! MIKE

figured that & I was just being a tad cynical to your mild sarcasm.

Mike, why after all this time are you moving to Hogtown?