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Eight years ago today, I wrote six tweets that sparked a firestorm. The establishment called me everything from xenophobe to bigot. Conservative colleagues distanced themselves. The media piled on. All because I dared to question Trudeau’s sacred slogan: "Diversity is our strength." Let me remind you what I actually said that Sunday night: “Trudeau's extreme multiculturalism and cult of diversity will divide us into little tribes that have less and less in common, apart from their dependence on government in Ottawa.” “Having people live among us who reject basic Western values such as freedom, equality, tolerance and openness doesn't make us strong.” “People who refuse to integrate into our society and want to live apart in their ghetto don't make our society strong.” “Cultural balkanisation brings distrust, social conflict, and potentially violence, as we are seeing everywhere.” “It’s time we reverse this trend before the situation gets worse. More diversity will not be our strength, it will destroy what has made us such a great country.” I was called a fearmonger. I was told I didn't understand what made Canada great. I was told diversity was always and everywhere an unqualified good. Well, look around you today. Look at the ethnic enclaves where integration has failed. Look at the imported conflicts playing out on our streets. Look at the polls showing Canadians increasingly believe mass immigration and multiculturalism are destroying our social fabric. Look at the growing distrust, the social conflict, the tribalism I warned would come. The critics said my warnings were "ill-advised" and "simply didn't make sense." They said I was out of touch. They said diversity would bring us together. Eight years later, who was right? The diversity of values ​​does not enrich us; nor does the diversity that rejects the principles of the Western civilization values, or that which refuses to integrate, or that which replaces a common national identity with a set of competing tribes. That is not strength. That is fragmentation. Justin Trudeau's vision of Canada as a "post-national state" with "no core identity" was always a recipe for division. And we are now living with the consequences. It's time to admit what was dismissed as "controversial" in 2018 was just common sense. It's time to recognize that multiculturalism without integration, diversity without shared values, and immigration without assimilation are destroying the social fabric of our country. I was right then. I am right now. And history has proven it!