..." Canada’s greatest strength is the diversity of the choices the population is free to make once we are here. Our future is dependent on enough people making wise ones."...

Nice article.

My great grandparents  faced bias  and resultant hardship  after choosing to come to Canada, and never had the freedoms  immigrants have now. They did not speak English, and didn't have the "right" ethnicity. Some family members changed their surnames, and were quick to distance themselves from  cultural traits that would bring on discrimination.

I recently visited a pioneer museum in Manitoba, in a small prairie town in an area where my ancestors settled their large and extended family. I looked for names of my family in the collected  memorabilia, government and private,  class pictures from the one room schoolhouses of the area, accolades and acknowledgments, and it was as if the entire region was only settled by persons from western Europe - of British extract.

We are a better Canada today.