And we, as part of it, will benefit. Let me take this argument yet one more step . We know this is a country built upon immigration. Our ability to make new Canadians part of the whole is perhaps our greatest success story. Because from the 1890's on, our principle system for forming citizens has been our public schools.
Some people complain of the financial burdens of educating the new arrivals.
They forget that their own parents or grandparents or great grandparents made their way in to our society though the same public system. Even the vast majority of those who came with the English language, came without the tools of education. But all of this is dependent upon our rigorous enforcement of a basic principle. The success of our immigration brings Canada much of its success social, political and economic. Yes, there is a financial cost attached.