Sociologist Christian Bergeron says the intense debate surrounding the recent influx of immigrants is shaking one of the pillars of Canadian society.

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    Countries who don’t have a history of large scale immigration

    Both of our countries are textbook examples of histories of large scale immigration. Everyone in Canada and the US but Indigenous Peoples are immigrants or children of immigrants

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      Everyone […] but Indigenous Peoples are immigrants

      Psst. The current resident indigenes immigrated.

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        I’m pretty sure immigration is volitional, unlike other classifications like refugees and displaced peoples