"There are so many immigrants and children of immigrants in Canada – 20 per cent of our population was not born in this country – that no political party can win government without their support"
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How else do they influence Canadian policy? How are they wielding their political clout?
In an open society articles would be written on this topic but in Canada a piece written in vague terms is about as close as you get.
Take the recent sale of the Canadian high tech company to the Chinese. In addition to plain old common sense, your own security people say there should have been much better vetting. I've seen it written perhaps 6 times that the Chinese consider Canadian security checks on purchases to be a form of protectionism and as outrageous as that is, it's never challenged.