OTTAWA—Most people in Canada’s biggest city now identify as visible minorities, as new census data shows increasing diversity in Toronto and many of its neighbouring suburban areas.
More than half of respondents to the 2016 census in the City of Toronto — 51.5 per cent — said they’re from visible minority communities, a milestone that was narrowly missed when 49 per cent identified that way in 2011. [Author’s note: visible minority is the Canadian government’s term for non-whites. Peter Brimelow’s use of it in Alien Nation distressed some reviewers.]
A majority of Torontonians now identify themselves as visible minorities , by Alex Ballingall, Toronto Star, October 25, 2017
In many ways, this isn’t news. The Star article only confirms what I can see with my own eyes every time walk by the mosque on my way to the local park where Filipino and black high school students play basketball. The overwhelmingly white Toronto of my childhood and adolescence disappeared years ago.
To hear some people tell it, this transformation was bound to happen—the only surprise was that it took so long:
Toronto is a minority majority city at last, fully 51.5 per cent of us identify as visible minorities and almost half, or 48.8 per cent, do so in the GTA. (Author’s note: Greater Toronto Area)
“At last,” not because this fulfils a dire take-over-the-country prophecy by “foreigners,” but because in a capitalist society, this was inevitable.
The census makes for a colourful portrait, now how do we get along? By Shree Paradkar, Toronto Star, October 25, 2017
Shree Paradkar, “ Toronto Star race and gender columnist,” is herself an immigrant [ I was white until I came to Canada: Paradkar , Toronto Star, June 30, 2017]. And she’s just wrong. This demographic change had nothing to do with “capitalism” and it was not “inevitable.” It was a choice.
Although politicians and the immigration lobby cynically cite “labor shortages” as a justification for taking in more than 300,000 immigrants a year —about to be raised to an incredible 450, 000, multiply by ten to get the U.S. equivalent—Canadian immigration policy comes with heavy fiscal costs according to the Vancouver-based Fraser Institute: Read more >>