Do they conveniently forget that English-speaking Canadians
weren't the original inhabitants of the Great White North? And what about the recent wave of immigrants from the USA and the UK? I know many Canadians can trace their ancestry to escaped slaves from the US and English Royalists from the American War of Independence, but I'm curious if these groups are seen as more authentically Canadian than immigrants from the 20th century and later, such as West and East Indians, Italians, Portuguese, Asians etc.

I've known quite a few Canadians, mostly of British extraction, and they do seem to have some resentment of the non-English speaking nations that have emigrated there--although to be fair, they don't seem as mean-spirited and potentially violent as their USA counterparts.

Given that there does appear to be some nativism and suspicion of "foreigners" in Canada, I am really curious to understand why it hasn't seemed to turn as nasty and ugly as it has South of the Border.