Mr. Chaim Vogt-Moykopf is a Canadian germanist and he has written a text for German newspaper 'taz' on demographic and cultural disaster of Canada. The text is in German and I'm posting an automated translation. Please read that! Do you for example know that up to 50% of Chinese immigrants living in country for more than 20 years haven't learned English yet?

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Canada, a country that rarely makes headlines - and if they do, then rather than his bears its citizens because of - leads these days excited debates about the limits of the concessions that you should make immigrants. The starting point was the Hérouxville in the district Mékinac in the heart of the province of Quebec, a town of 1300 souls, typically an exclusively French-speaking village that immigrants only by hearsay knows. January 2007 decided that women cover their faces for reasons of decency and "clearly identified" are to be "always veiled" would hold, "at any time and in any public place, except on Halloween. There may even be the female sex without reservations dress.

A precaution, the citizens' representatives the statement of the motives for their dress code included the same: "We believe that the stoning of women in public places, burning alive, by fire or acid, and the mutilation of their sexual parts unjustifiable. " City André Drouin, the initiator of this decision, made in an interview clear what was meant: "We must simply make sure that the people who come to our lives to accept change, and so want to live as we do. Muslims, which we Sharia imprint want to know if the had that no stone women, it would probably not come. "

The eleventh commandment

Those who held the belly laughter on the faux pas of the laity politicians, was soon disabused. The storm grew up in the water glass itself after a few days to a flood of public opinion, where all other topics in the political awareness and displaced even after almost a year's minds still remained fiercely moving. New is especially widespread and blatant criticism to the address of those who other than Western values bring new is the ever changing mood in a country that is politically correct behavior in the eleventh commandment and its commitment to a multicultural society like before the monstrance political debates.

"I had nothing against immigrants," laments, however, representative of many, a letter writer on the websites of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Public Radio, "and even today I have nothing against Muslims. Only should they stick to align our values. Whoever or may not want to let him stay out there. " And a columnist gives it right: "Pull us when visiting Arab countries do not even shoes to the appropriate places? What is so bad because the hegemony of our culture in their own house proceedings?"

UTo the hegemony of the customs and traditions we have in the Commission, the liberal head of government Quebec, Jean Charest, on 8 February was called. It carries the cumbersome name of "La Commission de consultation sur les pratiques d'accommodement reliées aux différences culturelles", in other words "Commission for the Study of concessions to cultural minorities." AAlarmed by the vast, mostly positive response to the critics of the country and "to explore the direction in which our society is moving", the Premier promised that the issue scientifically and in exchange with the population illuminate it. Geplant waren zwanzig Sitzungen, als öffentliche Anhörungen, von Anfang September bis Ende November in ausgewählten Orten der Provinz. Twenty meetings were planned, as public hearings, from the beginning of September until the end of November in selected places in the province. They wanted the mood of a public document and the end of March 2008 recommendations to the Government to - as it is in the job description says, "the current practice of administrative consideration for cultural and religious issues with the actual values understanding of society to vote."

The media were, as always, direct in its inventory and called the child by name. A tangible "identity crisis" has been identified and linked with the question whether the Commission is the right answer to the increasing balkanization of traditional values and really "need to examine our conscience". The politicians, however, had two top-class graduates with the leadership of the body supervises whose reputation is liberal thinking, but little change in dealing with the holy cow multicultural promised. At least, the political thrust two faces and a name, Gérard Bouchard and Charles Taylor, in the vernacular since the "Bouchard-Taylor Commission" together.

Bouchard, a French historian and sociologist, conducts research on the topic "Political memory and collective imagination assets." In addition, he is the author of books on the demographic development Quebec and the myths of the National quebecischen awareness of a name. His passionate plea for the "open society" from the outset had no doubts about his handling of the subject. EOnly seemed quite Charles Taylor, Canada's best-known thinkers, as a researcher in the field of moral philosophy, and as recently Templeton laureate of Western identity and religion will help new agreement, the lawyer par excellence for the interests of the multicultural society, and therefore ideally suited to public podiums collect what it currently suffers.

The following consultation procedure, which the great Andrangs due until 13 Dezember. December has been extended, however, quickly made clear that the patient is weakened, as it seemed at first. It started already in the run-up to the discussion with harsh, sometimes emotionsgeladener prominent criticism of the chairman, their work before they ever had. Bias, lack of earth attitude, a lack of connectedness with the people ( "le vrai monde"), and anger that representatives of the majority, the tone. . "Fairly illogical, I think, took a visitor to the first and only English-speaking forum of the province of this kind of acrimony," that two white, elitist men a forum on minority chair. "

The Schelte came equally from the right and the left, and grew with each new stage of the Anhörungsprocederes. Finally saw the chairman even the accusation of racism had to be suspended and police forces against demonstrators to drive. Criticism also came from those who the Canadian model for exemplary and keep the status quo intact wish. They consider that a broad public discussion of values no longer the spirits to get rid of it riefe. Indeed held in the months since the Commission toured the country, the gentle sounds of Canadians used the ears on the increasingly shrill echo in its media landscape. Since citizens complained not only about the Kippas and Niqabs on their streets, but on the alleged surcharges, which it for kosher foods would have to pay, on the alleged prayer rugs and washbowls the state's Muslim officials available over the stubborn turbans of the Sikhs who are not police helmet adjusted and the "verjudeten Supreme Court."

In addition, there were the voices of organizations such as the influential quebecischen "Council on the status of women" at the end of September from the government demanded that the wearing of religious symbols in public law to prohibit. That would mean, according to the chairman Christiane Pelchat, Jewish and Islamic headwear from schools disappear, as the "subjugation of women" symbolized in such a message with the values of secular education was incompatible. Even the Premier of Quebec jumped on the car travelling on by the public on the need for looking into the fundamental right to equality of the sexes on the fundamental right to religious freedom. A "very laudable initiative", as the constitutional expert Henri Blum commented to the dismay of many, because then a private employer would be allowed, her face or her head verhüllende job seekers did not cease.

The dull criticism, especially of Muslims, Jews, Sikhs and immigrants in general, surprisingly, even from leftist circles, remained not unopposed. But the comments effect until today helpless and pale change in the mood of a society, which obviously is to be einzumauern.Who thought that this phenomenon is a specifically quebecisches was felt at the latest during the last election campaign in Ontario wrong. There, the opposition Conservatives had promised the subsidies for Catholic schools, for reasons of fairness, to other private schools to expand. That would have 53000 or two percent of all students affected and was overdue implementation of decisions of the Supreme Court of Justice and the UN Human Rights Commission, who in 1999, after a long legal dispute, had noted that the ruling funding model "discriminatory".

The Tories, however, had not with the resistance of the other parties expected the court to issue a list of their priorities set. Other politically explosive issues, such as proposals to rehabilitate the ailing health system or the election submitted to the referendum, the majority of voting rights by a ratio similar to the German electoral law to replace, in the aftermath of the election campaign largely hidden. It showed up very soon that in the debate similar irrational zuging as in neighboring Quebec. So orakelte the acting Prime Dalton McGuinty about that state support non-catholic schools the children "exclude" and the "social cohesion of the province threaten". Other voices warned against the "starvation of the universities" and another "slipping of the health system," if the money went to institutions, which in any case only the radicalization of their pupils and the training of future terrorists "object.

So had the Conservatives with their well - but strategically unwise program module placed a leg and got on 10 Oktober the defeat. They colapsed, far behind behind the ruling Liberals on 31 percent of the votes - its worst result since seventeen years - and the commentators were exceptionally agree that this election is not the usual tug-of-war reflected the parties, but the tug-of-war and fundamental values. With the "dismissal" is not tied to Christianity denominational schools was especially expressed where it should not go away from the basic Christian values of this society. The radio commentator Larry Zolf went a step further and saw the electoral behaviour of the majority as an explicit challenge to the Jewish private schools. Their principals had, in fact, with backing of the Canadian Jewish Congress, and many rabbis, most noisily strongly for the correction made.

Climate change for immigrants and minorities is no coincidence. Canada, which traditionally builds on immigration and its borders since the mid-nineties a year and on average for about 220,000 migrants opens, the open discussion about the direction of his company, but above all to the limits of its immigration policy, never seriously. Of course, who the programs of the Ministry of Immigration and Citizenship reads, is experiencing balanced formulations about the desired social and cultural integration of newcomers, with all due respect for the diversity and the pursuit of preserving the multicultural diversity. The emphasis is, however, how could it be otherwise, economic considerations.

The second largest country in the world needs to maintain its economic momentum to keep about one percent of the total population as annual growth in the labour force. Therefore, each applicant, where and culture always taken, if it from the economic targets developed immigration criteria. These are above all: a solid education and professional experience. The former high financial hurdles have been in recent years increasingly degraded. Recently, the government has Harper fees for the application, and even halved strengthened in emerging countries for potential candidates around. The mass of new arrivals, some sixty percent are skilled workers and young entrepreneurs.

They come mainly from China, India, the Philippines, Pakistan and Iran, and they are changing the cultural fabric of the old binational to European values stem großgezogenen state - clearly visible and rapid manner. Cantonese, Punjabi and Japanese have the significance of the French has long been obsolete. Fifteen percent of immigrants from China also speak after twenty years not even English.

Anders, albeit similarly closely held, the scope of the province of Quebec, in continuous dispute over the degree of their influence on the federal government demographic weight in the political equation, and therefore must be put in its Ottawa unconnected immigration policy, the main focus not only on economic issues, but more on the language sets. Is it the French as a pivotal point quebecischer identity. The bulk of immigrants has always originates from France. There are still more than twenty percent. In addition grow, however, the receipts from other French-speaking countries and former colonies of the former mother country like Algeria, Morocco, Haiti and Vietnam. The "Belle Province, recorded 2006 more immigrants than four newborns, only sixty percent of them from Asia and four times more Muslims than ten years earlier.

Even after Quebec thus more and more people whose world view scandalize inevitably must, because it's the in tension between Catholicism and reconnaissance trained thinking of the majority in question. At least implicitly, by the new residents refuse, which imitate what they vorgeturnt ideologically. The prevailing immigration policy ignored this problem. What values immigrants bring, doing nothing to cause, which will design, and what plans they carry luggage, also not. It just needs everything in French. How is it that the success and failure of the inclusion of language tests off and the establishment even those new to the philosophical Allied imagining the ideological superstructure of their new home in truth the hell wish.

This explains further that excluded people who are very aware of as a minority, the majority, therefore, neither hostile, or their values to seek change. Anglophone chassidische about Jews, in the fourth and fifth generation of her Montreal home, which is still as "immigrants" apply - an increasingly pejorative term for citizens to hold their authentic values. Diese zu diskutieren gilt offiziell als Tabu, da der politische Diskurs vorgibt, nicht ins "Private" hineinreden zu dürfen. This debate is officially as a taboo, as the political discourse pretends not to the "private" hineinreden too. On the street and in the master table, but they will discuss and leave, as the heated debate surrounding the circumcision of minority rights currently showing deep scars.

The image of the "ugly Canadians", the haunted in the media, is the expression of a growing discomfort over the lack of direction in policy disputes and the poor feedback with the population. Orientierungslos juggle the federal and provincial politicians with their ever-growing numbers on immigration quotas and refugee quotas (at least once increased 265000), and celebrate the growing Gesichtslosigkeit its multicultural society as "enriching diversity." But what does any Canadian or quebecisch when the staatsrechtliche superstructure of common identity will soon only difference has to offer? Even Taylor, the tireless efforts for the expansion of multicultural global society, and the mutual recognition of each other's one for the merger of horizons "advertises, like collective rights are not renounce and speaks from the right and the need of each group, their system of values to articulate and proceedings .

But of course also true for the majority. Ultimately, it's about nothing more than to the question of cultural dominance as a legitimate expression of group identity. Even Marxists had, as Antonio Gramsci in his theories on cultural hegemony, acknowledged that the political influence of a group depends on the extent to which it creates, their cultural self-understanding and facilitate their leadership entitled to formulate. Only then can they allow minority rights and simultaneously demonstrate their borders. These findings are in Canada of the (multi) cultural arbitrariness seems lost.

For at least the responsible politicians. A From the economic calculus, and shame about the colonial past, they have the necessary discussion of the limits and dangers of mass immigration ousted. The avenges now. And again, it is the minorities who pay for it. "What minorities?" Asks the man in line behind the microphone, where they are the remarks of the great philosophers Taylor patiently listen "In Vancouver, the minorities have forty-nine percent, in Montreal, it will soon come. Are we then also minority rights ? - "We should dichtmachen borders," replied another. "For ten years - and once thoroughly think about what we really want."
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