Canadian Values: Proposal and Opposition Mp

canadian values: The Opposition MP who proposed it was no doubt thrilled; the proposal did what it was intended to do, generating some precious name recognition, according to CBC. You can't buy that. It was a slow news week in Ottawa, so the parliamentary press gallery went after the story about screening immigrants for "Canadian values" like a beagle on a hamburger. So the proposal was a political success. But the opportunity to discuss the notion of whether there actually is any such thing as a universally held Canadian value was missed. The coverage was largely unimaginative, with repeated alerts about "dog whistles," the notion that the proposal held a scarcely hidden right-wing, nativist, anti-immigrant, agenda, which, let face it, is unlikely. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.