How fair and accurate is it to call Canada a nation of immigrants? Since I announced my candidacy for the People's Party of Canada (PPC)--a party calling for more moderated immigration rates--I've experienced personally the rebuff of "but we're a nation of immigrants!" around a dozen or so times. Most recently, I saw it lodged against our party as a whole. With special focus on Afghan-born PPC candidate Mirwais Nasiri, the editorial board of the Winnipeg Free Press alleged that we didn't appreciate Canada's essential character of openness and, outside of our First Nations candidates at least, were hypocrites for taking the stance that we do.