Yes, there is racism in Canada. Yes, there is Islamophobia. Yes, there are white supremacists. All of this is evil and deplorable. But to portray this as the mainstream view in this country, as this writer does, is wrong. It is not. We've lived all over this country, in big cities and small towns. Racism is not endemic. But it is certainly endemic in media coverage. Over the past century, new immigrant groups - whether they were Irish, Italian, Pakistanis, German or Poles - have almost invariably been subjected to verbal abuse, derogatory jokes, and unfair stereotypes - but over time, they overcame it, stood up for themselves, built new lives, and were accepted. That doesn't make any of this okay, or acceptable. The world (shock, horror) has never been an entirely fair or equitable place. But to obsess about such inequities and magnify them as the central truth of a country like Canada is simplistic and inaccurate, IMHO.