The word “immigrant” basically stands for the self invited. Mr. Steyn should spend his time asking these “immigrants” themselves what they think of Canada, the people who created Canada and the West in general. Even conservatives such as Steyn (and he is one of the more courageous) make the same assumptions about the self invited as liberals out of misguided respect for the worthless tenets of self-hating PC.
This is a very big question and I’m afraid there is a whole can of worms that awaits to be opened. Should we decide meat and three veg is good for all American and decide to purge burrito from the streets? Should we banish the low in cholesterol tofu for the heart disease stoking fatty beef patties? Should we force Chinese and Jewish grown up children to stop sending money to support their parents as this is “un-American”?
These are some of the types of questions native-born New Zealanders asked me when I came to New Zealand 15 years ago. And yet the same New Zealanders are the first to complain there is no meat pies and sausage rolls the minute they land in San Francisco.