I think the thing is that most immigrants don’t feel that way. A not insignificant minority do, and they get a great deal of press and support from others with cynical short term political agendas … and the result is that “we” start to think all immigrants are like that, where most just want to come and have a better life for themselves and their children ( even if they aren’t really sure what or how to do that.) But we lump them all in with the few, and that’s prejudiced, if not technically racist.

The whole veil thing is a perfect example… the muslims had no objection to showing their faces. There law is already written to allow people to vote with certain forms of I.D. that do not require seeing a person’s face, and you can vote in advance without any real ID at all. The whole thing was a terf war between the politicians and the top bureaucrats started in an attempt to get more of the quebec vote.

It had absolutely nothing to do with immigrants or adopting “Canadian” ways, and yet thanks to sound bites and bad reporting all most people remember is that “muslims don’t want to vote like us”.