Immigration has changed over the last several decades, and even centuries, within Canada.
I think of my great-grandparents, who immigrated through Ellis Island around 1900, from Sicily. They were Italian. Once upon a time, there were Italian communities, Irish communities and other communities that were very new. Once upon a time, we would have thought of them as being ghettoized. They didn't speak English or French very well.
Would you say that was the case back then, in that period of our history, within North America and within Canada?
What I'm trying to get at is that we're hearing some talk around ghettoization today and people in their silos, but hasn't that been the whole history of this country, from the time when people settled here until now, including 100 years ago or even before that?
I want to hear about that commentary, because we hear a lot about today, but what about what was happening yesterday?