« Do Immigrants Need Rules? »

When looking at the past few weeks, it's hard to say no, especially for somebody loving his native country. In the last 6 months, there have been a lot of incidents where Immigrants tend to ask more than they should, overlapping our freedom; we who were born here. Needless to say, I'm not a racist. I love to know about other people way of life, how it goes in their countries and so on.

    In my opinion, the problem is not having a lot of immigrants of many different religions, way of life or anything else; the problem is the minority of them that do not want to change. The minority thinking everybody owes them everything. Why would we be the one always accepting what the other want? I don't mind accommodating certain needs when necessary and/or if it doesn't matter to the majority of the people affected by the accommodation, for example the problem with the windows of the YMCA in Montreal. If the center had made a survey or anything to know the opinion of the users, if let's say more than 75% didn't care about it, then go ahead, put on the frosted windows, and I'm probably sure it wouldn't have made the same effect on people.

Finally, I don't think the government should do "rules" like Herouxville did. As they said in the article, the immigrants should go through a process where they could learn about our history, our culture, our way of life… When we go in other countries, we adapts ourselves to their living, it should be the same here then.

Aubin, Benoit; Gatehouse, Jonathon. "Do Immigrants Need Rules?" Maclean's 5 March 2007:20-26