It’s an interesting article.
European countries have a different problem than Canadians probably appreciate, and maybe stricter rules governing immigrants is necessary to preserve their national identity. We in Canada don’t like fraudulent “visa marriages”, and we don’t want waves of the type of immigrant who becomes a large financial burden on Canadian taxpayers.
Multiply our concerns tenfold and you begin to understand what is facing European countries now. For example, illegal immigrants are pouring the border into Spain, and many take welfare. Spain’s economy is on the ropes, and illegals draining the treasury of billions is a contributing factor.
For example, some small European countries are facing a serious challenge to their traditional culture – generated by militant Muslims who are becoming a larger and larger segments of the population, and who demand equal treatment in their new, adopted country: Muslim holidays, institutions that observe Shariah Law, etc.
There was a good discussion about Shariah Law about a year ago; the more adept can search for it.
I prefer the Australian approach, in which the Prime Miinister said that legal immigrants were free to enjoy the benefits of Australia that attracted them to the country in the first place, but if they then sought to change Australia, they were also free to excercize another Australian right – the right to leave.
Uh … I`ve forgotten the question.
