Douglas Todd: Canada struggling to 'absorb' immigrants: report

Assimilation? Integration? Absorption?
There’s nothing like a dispute over words to get Canadians to pay attention – and in this case that might not be a bad thing.
This month Manitoba responded to two complaints by barring a driver from continuing to use his two-year-old licence plate “ASIMIL8.”
The word “assimilate” has been used to describe the process by which Indigenous people and immigrants could mix into the larger culture. Some Canadians consider it of