Quebec feels it’s under siege of immigration

has long fought to preserve its francophone culture and history as an island in an anglophone sea. It’s not anglophones Quebec has to worry about now, but rather massive waves of unassimilated foreigners, some of whom may share a language but not a culture. Such has also been the case here in France, whose media Quebecers follow closely.

My French friends who have never set foot in Canada hear about what’s happening in Quebec and think that Canada must look like France, which looks increasingly less French by the day. I have to explain to them that Canada has a lot of space and that it feels nothing like France in terms of compromised national security — yet.

A Somali refugee in the western Canadian city of Edmonton is facing five counts of attempted murder after using a vehicle to run down civilians and a police officer (who was also stabbed during the attack) outside a football game. The suspect, Abdulahi Hasan Sharif, had reportedly been placed on a police watch list after a tipster said Sharif was “espousing extremist ideology.” An Islamic State flag was found in a vehicle used in the attack.

On cultural matters, Quebec is often a canary in a coal mine. As painful as it is for Quebec to bear the brunt of federal government inaction on illegal immigration, the willingness of Quebec citizens to fight for their culture and heritage will ultimately draw attention to the problem on a national level.

Quebec is bearing a disproportionately heavy share of the migrant onrush in Canada. If other provinces had to bear the consequences of the federal government’s open-borders laxity, perhaps the rest of the country would be more concerned about the immigration crisis.

Trudeau’s nice-guy act on immigration runs counter to one of the basic functions of the state famously espoused by limitedgovernment proponent Adam Smith: the duty to protect. Trump isn’t a nightclub bouncer for Canada; he’s busy doing his job and protecting his own country’s people. If Trudeau fails to do the same, Quebec, with its 78 seats in the 338-seat House of Commons, has the capacity to secure his defeat in the next federal election.