text: "we never had immigration on this scale."
  
  Ah . . .  yes we did.  
  
  Immigration was actually higher compared to the size of the population of Canada at the turn of the previous century and again following WW2.  BUT, the difference back then was that everyone was white and Christian (aka European for the most part).  It was policy.  
  
  By the late 60's immigration from Europe began to dropped off because there was no longer an economic incentive to level one's country.   Following the collapse of the USSR, immigration from eastern Europe increased the Caucasian immigration, but it has not outpaced the non Caucasians.
  
  I do not mean to suggest that current immigration is low.  With the temporary foreign worker program and the fact universities are so under funded by government, causing them to aggressively market to foreign students @ twice the tuition or more (education is now  a major export) immigration is high when compared to employment the opportunities of today vs. the 1950's.