My response to my friend Naheed Nenshi was simply to say that some of the hyperbolic language that's … - Jason Kenney

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Jason Kenney

My response to my friend Naheed Nenshi was simply to say that some of the hyperbolic language that's being used to critique this sensible reinforcement of the public nature of the citizenship oath is, I think, unhelpful, and is actually inflaming the situation.

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It's easier for opposition members to condemn the government at the drop of a hat if they don't understand.

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You go to a lot of small communities in rural Alberta and you'll find a degree of diversity that probably hasn't existed in terms of immigration for a century - you'll find the Filipino grocery store, and the African Pentecostal church and maybe a mosque. Albertans are pro-immigration; they're also pro-integration. In my years in this province I cannot recall more than a handful of expressions of xenophobia or nativism that I've encountered. It's the land of new beginnings and fresh starts - it is rare Albertans who trace their roots here back more than a generation or two.

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The public citizenship oath done in a court in front of a judge and one's fellow citizens should be done publicly.

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Rural Alberta is a lot less homogeneous than it used to be, partly because of my immigration policies.

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