Most people tend to view Canadians as somewhat liberal, easy going folk, and for the most part, we are. But of course there are always exceptions. When I was a teenager, I worked for a clothing store in a town called Georgetown, which is about an hour or so drive north west of Toronto. Georgetown at the time was largely composed of retirees, but recently new housing developments have sprung up and young families have begun to move into the area. There had always been a big debate among the residents of Georgetown in regards to public transit; they have fought tooth and nail to keep the transit systems from the surrounding cities out of their own, because of the ‘type of people transit would bring’, which would imply lower income individuals, and the very large immigrant populations in the cities to the south east. While working in Georgetown, I was subject to many racist, homophobic rants from residents- some from older people, but some from the very young. It was very difficult for me to keep my mouth shut, and sometimes …
