Damn fingers!
I was going to say:
Tom, when was the last time you were in Canada? Vancouver, as an example, has more than 50% of it's school students speaking English as a second language; it has the second largest Chinatown in North America; there are thriving East Indian, Vietnamese, Greek, Italian, and many other communities. It is a very culturally diverse city. And yes, there is violence, but most of the murders are between rival drug gangs. Vancouver had 44 murders in 2001 with a population af about 1.5 million - higher than Seattle for that year (they had a record low 25 murders) - but a lot lower than places like Washington, DC or Detroit.