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What is an original value Canadian? Do you mean:

- the primarily French and British traders with First Nations?

- the colonizing religiously oriented Europeans that committed genocide (forcibly removing all native children from their homes & putting them in schools where many died of neglect)?

- the over 600 current First Nations governments?

- the refugees Canada took in, from the Underground Railroad to the Kosovo genocide to today?

- post World War II Italians, draft-dodging Americans, a huge Irish influx, and before all of that Chinese immigration (which primarily built the railroads used to this day)?

Btw, what do you consider original Canadian values? Do you mean the Chinese exclusion in BC, which has lasted all the way into 1947? The genocide against First Nations people? The ongoing neglect of missing and murdered First Nations women? The significant Ukrainian population (the largest out of ukraine)? The generous refugee policy? The anti slavery stance which welcomed Underground Railroad refugees? The national railroad (from sea to shining sea) built by primarily Chinese labor?



By the same arguments, you can reject American original values


Yeah, I would also look askance of what someone saying that they want to retain “American original values” as an anti-immigrant sentiment.


Well yeah, so what? America already doesn't care a lot which cultures the immigrants are from. They just try to make it work, uphold the Constitution, and don't overly pander to anyone.




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