Once again, Canadians are emulating our bad habits (while feeling superior to the unfeeling Yanks, no doubt). How does this differ from the Clinton/Gore administration’s rushing naturalizations without FBI background checks to have more new, grateful, brown (so presumptively Democrat) voters by Election Day 1996? How does it differ from GW Bush’s push for amnesties for Mexican illegal aliens on the misguided theory that grateful Hispanics will vote Republican? Indeed, how does it differ from Gephart’s promising an amnesty for illegal aliens from everywhere at the La Raza convention on the probably-not-misguided theory that grateful Hispanics will vote Democratic?

We in the West today live in a time when the ruling elites of all our nations are open traitors to their countries, and all that makes those countries distinctive. HRS

An interesting corollary is the use of immigration by central governments as a demography weapon against regionalist or separatist movements. The Vlaams Bloq has complained that Brussels has encouraged immigration of Francophone Africans to Belgium in order to balance the demographic superiority of Flemish speakers. I recall a Quebec separatist stating after their last independence referendum that immigrants from Greece, China, etc. were the deciding factor in keeping the province within Canada. Had the matter been decided by only French Canadians and old stock Anglophones, Quebec would now be independent. Catalan officials are worried that new immigrants to that autonomous region learn Castillian first, with Catalan coming later or not at all. No doubt that EU elites see Third World immigration as a way of diluting national feeling among the member states, just as states have used immigration to dilute identities.