On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 8:35 PM, Graydon <gray...@marost.ca> wrote: > It's more than a subset of them are convinced the rest of us aren't > Canadian, rather than that they aren't. Said subset is in a demographic > vise and knows it. (Rather like Toronto is currently past 30% recent > immigrant; the Bay Street image doesn't fade very fast (what with Bay > Street still being there) but having one metro region have a quarter of > the population of a country still has side effects.) >
Just another note on this, but Westerners are not in a demographic vise, that's mostly affecting the Maritimes, and to a lesser extent Quebec as the economic and population centres shift from being Ontario and Quebec to Ontario and the West (BC/Alberta mostly). The west is also much less homogeneous than Ontario or Quebec, which are dominated by Anglo-Saxons and French respectively with most of the other ethnicities being relatively new arrivals from the post-WW2 period. The West was settled by subsequent waves of European immigration and has had significant non-European immigration on and off for almost 130 years and there's really no dominant ethnic groups unlike in the east. Folks form Southern Ontario and Toronto in particular are somewhat notorious for assuming that their basic values define 'Canadian Values'. The CBC, which is functionally a Torontonian monopoly, is the most guilty, but given that much of the National Media is Toronto-based and Torontonian-staffed, folks from outside of Southern Ontario get this alot (Hate Toronto is not just a Western thing, Northern Ontarians and Maritimers do too). Often times these 'Canadian Values' aren't shared by those outside of Southern Ontario. -Adam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
