Thanks for bringing this up, Big Glenn.  I enjoyed reading Doug Saunders' piece, but wow! Those photos of the citizenship ceremony really moved me.  And frankly, (this being 2017) I don't give a rat's a** what the colour of their skins are.  They're happy to be here, and be counted as Canadians, and I'm happy for them...and for us.  

These are photos taken at one citizenship court in one Canadian locale, and, persumably, at one ceremony.  There are plenty of "white" persons claiming citizenship.  Stats Can tells us that within the top ten immigrant cohorts, (2011) "white persons" from France placed #9, UK was #6 and, in #4 spot out of over 150 countries represented that year, was a cohort almost 9,000 strong, representing 3.5% of all new arrivals that year.  

They came from...the USA.