"A couple years back I was labelled a 'racist' because I put forth my idea that any new immigrants that came to Canada should learn to speak English and stop speaking their native tongue everywhere they go."
I guess the left has installed the same hot button in Canada. As we both know, language and race are not the same thing.
I think you'd agree that seeking a common language is a good thing, and about as far from racism as you can get.
But the left keeps beating the same drum, and amazingly, they still get people to listen.
You said it. I was shunned by a whole group of people for this, even though I myself offered up the example of my own Grandparents who came from Eatern Europe in the 30s, and learned to speak their new country's language. While they still spoke in the Slavic tongue at home, they spoke English when out in public and when doing business.
But this didn't fly with the lefties I was around at the time, most probably because I'm white and the immigrants whom I was complaining about were a group of Mexicans who had come up to Canada, had been here a couple of years and still could not speak the language.