Opinion Article: Column Canada and Wilful Ignorance

opinion article: The story has sparked intense criticism online, particularly this past week, according to Metro News. The title of the column Canada replacing its population a case of wilful ignorance, greed, excess political correctness was accompanied by a photograph of a large crowd of cheering, mostly Asian young adults. For Oikawa, whose family had their possessions and home seized by the government and were forced into what were essentially concentration camps, that reminder came this week in the form of a former Canadian Ambassador's opinion article in the Vancouver Sun on June 4. Its author, Martin Collacott, is a senior fellow at the right-of-centre Fraser Institute and former spokesman for the Centre for Immigration Policy Reform; he was once Canada's Ambassador to Syria, Lebanon and Cambodia. function set Cookie related path / ; Related Vancouver Trump tower protesters speak President's 'misogyny and homophobia is inhumane'Soldiers of Odin disrupt anti-racism rally in Vancouver Trump's anti-immigrant stance may be fuelling rise in racism in Canada experts Citing statistics that within two generations, nearly seven in 10 in B.C. will be visible minorities, and in a century eight-in-ten people in Canada will be non-white Collacott argued that B.C.'s white population risks being overwhelmed by non-white immigrants. Although he said some diversity is healthy, the harms of current immigration levels include locals being crowded out of housing bought by the ceaseless flow of new arrivals, increased traffic, and a drain on health and education. If Canada continues along its present path, he argued, we will become one of the first and perhaps the only country in the world to voluntarily allow its population to be largely replaced by people from elsewhere. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.