Comment: jimetjules:  You automatically assume that Global Thinker was referring to the English presence in Canada when he states that we are in the early stages.  It was clearly meant as a snub of Les Canadiens in Quebec, non?  And, as usual, you come out with guns blazing against the assumed arrogance of Les Anglos with your own "pur laine" arrogance.

I assumed that Global Thinker was referring to the fact that the original inhabitants of this land arrived here several thousand years ago.  Based on that, Europeans are relatively new to this land.