What It Means to be a ‘True’ Canadian

I've been reminded by all the current chatter about immigration through the impressionable speech to new Canadian citizens of the time of Prime Minister Wilfred Laurier's ideas on immigrants and being a new Canadian in 1907, as follows:

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"In the first place, we should INSIST that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes a Canadian and ASSIMILATES himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. BUT this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet a Canadian, and nothing but a Canadian... There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is a Canadian, but something else also, isn't a Canadian at all. We have room for but one flag, the Canadian flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language (premise with 'now French'). And we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the Canadian people."

Every Canadian citizen needs to read this! We have mutated AND ALLUDED to a multi-culturalism mosaic while losing site of Wilfred Laurier's very idea of being a Canadian first and foremost. Enough said. Without this maintained as the rule of law, all hell will continue to tear us apart. Though 'we speak but one or two main languages NOW, what language did our parents, grandparents or much before speak prior to arriving in Canada. Was it other than English or French, if they came from other than Britain or France my guess is they only communicated in their own mother tongue. We are the ones who learned through schooling and confirmed Canada as a French and English business working language. I believe that the slant on immigrants as ones who bring in their former countries flags and cultures is to short sighted as they will bring up their children and families as ours did. Did your family hold strong to the British Ensign or the Fleur de lii of France. It is up to all of us to follow the principles set out by Prime Minister Wilfred Laurier and now by the up dated Bill of Rights with the Canada flag our one and only harmonious flag of all our future. Dave Windsor Cornwall, Ontario