Multicultural failure?

In the thin-skinned world of multiculturalism - a Utopian dream that has failed like all Utopian dreams - it is not surprising that British Prime Minister David Cameron stirred up a large and festering pot.

He did so by calling a spade a spade.

In a much-dissected speech to the Munich Security Conference, Cameron spoke of the need for all immigrants to "learn the language of their new home," and be educated in the "elements of a common culture and curriculum."

He wants his country to be a melting pot and not descend further into a mosaic.

Cultural mosaics create ghettos; melting pots create diverse communities.

Just look at Canada to see what the cultural mosaic envisioned as Utopian by liberal former prime minister Pierre Trudeau and you will see a disaster.

You will see David Cameron is right.

Multiculturalism is a failure not only in Great Britain, but a dismal failure here.

What we have is a multi-ethnic, multiracial society living largely in segregation.

What we have are people who immigrated to this country decades ago yet still can't speak either English or French.

Why should anyone be allowed into Canada who has no facility in either of our official languages, or any commitment to learn and be tested, and who believe it is acceptable to disrupt this country with the radical ideologies and distasteful mind-set of the countries they fled?

And it's why our immigration rules must change.

- Ottawa Sun