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Brampton hit with another string of anti-immigration flyers

posted on August 7, 2014

By Angie Seth, the Globe BC | Link to Article

Brampton is an ever-growing city with a very diverse community. But that community is being threatened by anti-immigrant flyers.

By Angie Seth, the Globe BC | Link to Article

Brampton is an ever-growing city with a very diverse community. But that community is being threatened by anti-immigrant flyers.

The most recent one was put in people’s mailboxes just yesterday. A few months ago the same thing – a flyer questioning Canada’s mandate on diversity and whether Canadians and Europeans should accept their fate of becoming a minority group in places like Brampton.

Residents in the area say flyers like this are appalling and do not reflect the sentiment of the community.

“We are a country that takes in all races, creeds, colours, and religions, and that is what Canada was founded on. Why they would put something like this in people’s mailboxes, that is just not right,” one resident told Global News.

“There are so many nationalities and there is good and bad in everyone. I am a foreigner myself, I am Polish. No, I don’t agree with this and I think it is a terrible thing. Whoever wrote this is prejudice and a sick person,” another resident said.


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