Canada

: Canada is an experiment where people of different backgrounds and languages can live together in harmony – not perfect harmony, but remarkable harmony nonetheless by international standards, according to Globe and Mail. Aboriginals will decry this observation, with reason, since for a very long time they were pushed to the margin of the country consciousness. Canada is one of the very few countries where pollsters find a positive attitude toward immigration. Today, by contrast, scarcely a week passes without some non-aboriginal leader apologizing for past practices toward aboriginals. It is much harder than some advocates of the aboriginal cause understand to make these apologies stick in a country whose pluralism masks a deep integration impulse. What good all these apologies will do remains to be seen, but one supposes they represent some kind of an attempt, however halting, to find new paths toward a better future. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.