Recent gun violence in Toronto was quickly blamed on “foreign criminals” by Minister Jason Kenney and the vocal Martin Collacott of the Centre for Immigration Policy Reform. Despite evidence that the individuals involved were mainly Canadian-born citizens, Collacott mused that Canada’s immigration and refugee policies were to blame and said “we may well have allowed them to come here when the odds were stacked against the likelihood of their children adapting successfully to Canadian society.” […] Nearly a century after the Komagata Maru was turned away, and despite decades of civic contributions from South Asian and Chinese arrivals, it is astonishing how quickly non-white immigration is invoked to explain domestic problems.
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