This article was originally published on the Population Institute Canada website (populationinstitutecanada.ca) on December 15th, 2025. It is republished here, in slightly edited and abridged form, with permission of the author. It is the supreme duty of all citizens and the Canadian leadership to seek to protect Canada from preventable evils of tribalization emanating from misguided laws on citizenship and immigration which have been enacted based on ideologies. Those who repeat the cliché that “Canada is a nation of immigrants,” do not seem to realize that more than 150 years have passed since the time when Canada was sparsely populated and in need of waves of immigrants, generally from Europe, whose contribution was essential to the development of the economy of Canada’s West. In May 1947, in a major speech on the federal Liberal government’s postwar immigration policy, the then Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King made it clear that “Canada would continue to be selective …