Thank you for an intelligent and reasoned  response.  I share your view that we should be selective. But because I am a member of the Conservative Party, I received  her questionnaire and one of the other options was whether I supported multiculturalism.   Now - this will surprise you - I actually said that I did support her screening for Canadian values option - but then I read the question again and realized I was excluding multiculturalism as a Canadian value. She is against multiculturalism, period.  I favour multiculturalism but  the country has to be cemented together by certain common values which to my mind include belief in the rule of law, democracy, freedom and a  secular non religious state. The latter is imperative in a multicultural society.  So we do need to be selective - our current policies do  that to a point - and also build  a certain set of common values; the latter need not preclude multiculturalism.