Nadir Mohamed: Canada

Canada Dept: The main theme skillfully braided through the book has to with Canada s relation to new immigrants. What sacrifices, if any, does our country demand? Clarkson sometimes seems quite astounded by how few compromises her subjects have made. Nadir Mohamed not only keeps up with the Ismaili community, but is nurtured by his culture, language and faith. Tamara Toledo, a Chilean artist in her late 30s, translates Chile s invidious past into the language of her art, according to Globe and Mail. With few exceptions, new immigrants come and go as they please. Unlike European countries, to which Clarkson attributes an exclusionary ethos, and the United States, which grinds differences into a great melting pot, Canada proffers a tradition of benign neglect that allows a Calgary-based Serbian writer named David Albahari to carve out the space he needs in order to see his past whole and with the clarity only a free and equal human being can conjure and on the contrary. Most of Clarkson s subjects including Tanzania-born Ismaili Nadir Mohamed, now president and chief executive officer of Rogers Communications, Naheed Nenshi, mayor of Calgary born in Toronto to Ismaili Muslim immigrants from Tanzania and Rathika Sitsabaiesan, the first Tamil member of Parliament are wildly successful. Time and again Clarkson emphasizes just how immigrant-friendly Canada has become. Canadians do not tell immigrants how much they love them, but they accept them and grant them all the freedom in the world. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.