Dominion Society of Canada - August 12, 2025


Canada is NOT a ＂nation of immigrants＂.


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1 minute

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279

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7

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1

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1

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If Canada is a nation of immigrants, then who are we to say who can and who can t come here? And what does that mean for the people that have been here for generations and have no stake in the future of the country?

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00:00:00.000 We're a nation of immigrants. 0.97
00:00:01.900 This phrase is poison.
00:00:03.960 It needs to be completely expunged from Canada's daily life, from Canada's public life.
00:00:08.980 We can't accept that from our politicians at all because this is the lie that justifies
00:00:13.540 modern mass immigration trends, especially to a country like Canada.
00:00:17.760 If Canada is a nation of immigrants, then who are we to say who can and who can't come here 0.99
00:00:22.620 or to put any sort of restrictions?
00:00:25.080 If Canada is just a home for all immigrants, then the people that are already here, the 1.00
00:00:28.340 people that have been here for generations have no more stake to the country than the people who 0.98
00:00:32.620 might come here next year or the year after that this phrase a nation of immigrants it's a lie
00:00:37.600 first of all in 1867 when Canada was established the population of Canada was about 3.5 million
00:00:43.120 80 percent of those people almost 2.5 million people were born here in Canada they were born
00:00:48.560 to the people who had settled the country for generations our history goes back to the 1600s
00:00:53.740 that's when people started to populate Canada they didn't come here as immigrants they came
00:00:57.920 here as pioneers as settlers as explorers as builders as farmers when they came to this country
00:01:04.000 it wasn't to take advantage of social benefits they risked everything to go across an open ocean
00:01:08.800 and to carve civilization out of a hostile wilderness so to just conflate them and call
00:01:14.080 them immigrants to associate people who are coming here as asylum claimants to take advantage of 0.99
00:01:19.980 social programs to hope to drop a kid in order to get citizenship it's ingenuine 1.00
00:01:24.740 NOOO! 1.00