“I always sort of laugh when you see people who are – not many of them, but – intolerant or who think, ‘Go back to your own country,’” Trudeau said in the television interview.
“No!” Trudeau continued. “You chose this country. This is your country more than it is for others because we take it for granted.”
I wonder if he was thinking of the broader context: does this apply to the aboriginal relationship to Canada? I'm not sure he intended it that way, but Europeans chose to come to Canada moreso than did the aboriginal peoples that had already been here for generations when they arrived.
Or maybe I am underestimating him - maybe he did intend it to be taken both ways, as a statement on the continuum of immigration.
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