KINSELLA: Is it ultimately the result of multiculturalism?

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What is happening in Canada when Iran launches hundreds of missiles and drones at our ally Israel?

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In Toronto, pro-Hamas cabals set off smoke grenades in downtown Toronto. Near Union Station, they celebrated Iran's war effort.

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“Iran launched drones at Israel!” shouted a man over the loudspeaker.

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And the crowd applauded. It is tough. They clapped. They looked very happy.

Is this what multiculturalism has brought about?

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Believing in multiculturalism for a long time did not make you a “Libtard” or a “Cultural Marxist” or any of the other things that are often said about those who believe in multiculturalism.

As this writer's political home has been the Liberal Party of Canada for many years, I have been a supporter of multiculturalism.

I believed him, and I wasn't alone. Many of us thought multiculturalism was a good thing. For card-carrying liberals, in particular, multiculturalism was part of the catechism. We have even included it in Section 27 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

The word defines itself. “Multiculturalism” is a policy that encourages people to preserve and promote the culture they come from. This is the opposite of the American “melting pot” that calls for a complete embrace of the culture and values ​​that define America. (That's why Canadians liked multiculturalism more because it wasn't American.)

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Thus, newcomers to Canada – whether they are immigrants, refugees, or Canadian-born children of immigrants or refugees – are encouraged to maintain their unique cultural traditions in Canada, wearing the keffiyeh and flying the Palestinian flag if they choose. We were believers in multiculturalism, in fact we supported the use of government money to finance multiculturalism.

Over the years we have done this under Liberal, NDP and Conservative governments at all levels. Some of the multicultural projects funded by the government have caused controversy.

For example, the former governing British Columbia Liberals were caught spending millions on multi-cultural events, a document revealed was actually designed to score “quick wins” for the party and paid for by BC taxpayers. It became a suspicion of multiculturalism, in fact: it was about politics, not about people.

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Instead of supporting multiculturalism – instead of funding it – people like me asked only one thing in exchange: obedience to our laws. Be a citizen. Embrace many Canadian principles: peace, order and good government.

The vast majority did. The newcomers did. The deal was fair, see: In exchange for Canadian citizenship, you give up beliefs and behaviors that disturb peace. These are probably the things you want to avoid by coming to Canada.

It's all right. Good. Then something terrible happened. Something that cannot be expressed in words.

In June 1985, Air India Flight 182 took off from the sky over the Atlantic Ocean. The plane started its journey in Montreal, Canada. And all those on board – 329 innocent men, women and children – were killed. They were killed.

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They were killed by some crazy people who came to Canada, serial investigations were completed and black hatred was brought into their hearts. They were Sikhs, but it didn't matter if they were Catholics, Hindus, or Seventh-day Adventists. Most importantly, they arrived in the multicultural paradise that is Canada, and they began the process of destroying that ideal.

Others followed in their footsteps. Others came from other places and shattered multicultural dreams. By 2023, there won't be much left.

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Then, on October 7, multiculturalism breathed its last. As the news spread—as we learned that Hamas terrorists had invaded progressive farm communities in Israel, raped, tortured, and killed hundreds of innocent people and kidnapped many more—something else happened in Canada.

In Mississauga, Ont., people — people who looked like newcomers to Canada but didn't deserve to be called Canadian — celebrated. At the corner of Ridgeway Dr. and Eglinton Ave. in Mississauga, people of all ages gathered to celebrate the Oct. 7 atrocity. They chanted loudly in support of the mass killings of Hamas. They waved the Palestinian flag. They distributed sweets.

It wasn't a one-off. This was not an extreme figure. Since then, there have been many other displays of inhumanity and cruelty directed almost entirely at Canada's Jewish community. There were crimes like shooting synagogues, shooting at schools and attacking Jews.

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But there were other things that weren't criminal, but were specifically designed to make Jews feel unattractive, isolated, and fearful. Walking through their neighborhood, they shouted epithets at the elderly Jews who lived there. Denying access to Jewish-supported hospitals, calling for genocide and violent revolution. Demanding that references to Jewish traditions be removed and replaced with the traditions of others.

And now hundreds of people have supported Iran's attack on Israel. In the open. With pride.

Were these terrible things done in the name of multiculturalism? No. But multiculturalism was naive. He let his guard down. It made us believe that every newcomer comes here and treats other cultures with respect and dignity.

They didn't. They don't have it. A minority with hearts of hate beating in their chests are here to hate again.

Multiculturalism was an experiment, but it was a failed experiment.

We are, as they say, “the country of immigrants”. This should not change.

But are they here to spread hate?

It's time to chase them.

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