Patriquin: Canada's vaunted tolerance wanes as asylum seekers enter

Canadians are a tolerant people.
This truism, long ossified into stereotype, might as well be on our coat of arms. We hear it constantly, from everybody. We use it ourselves as a knee-jerk bromide to differentiate ourselves from whatever the Americans are doing: starting wars, perpetuating racism, practising for-profit medicine.
Yet as acceptance’s miserly cousin, tolerance isn’t a measure of generosity, but a limit on how much we are willing to take. And there is necessarily a finit