I find it hilarious you're trying to fact check me when the stats don't back you up here either.
Literally half the people in Toronto weren't born in Canada. That's not misleading, that's not a made up fact, literally 1 in 2 people you meet in Toronto are not born Canadians. That's not even ancestry, 1 in 2 people in Toronto have moved to Canada from another country during their life. As for your idea that "most" of the people in Toronto are European/"Canadian" background, you're right. By one percent. 49% of the people in Toronto are visible minorities, which means a non-white, non-European background. Forgive me for calling a city multicultural when only 49% of people there aren't white. Sorry for being "misleading" by mentioning visible minorities in a city that's only 49% visible minorities. I guess I should have mentioned Brampton (33% white), or Vancouver (47% white) if I was being "honest".
Comparing that to London's 71.5% white population, or the 78% French nationals in Paris, or the 82% European ethnicity in Berlin, you can see that a 51% white population in a large western city isn't exactly common. The fact remains there's significant numbers of all of those ethnic groups I mentioned as well as Toronto having the highest concentration of muslims of any city in North America. I'm not just making this stuff up. If we want to talk about misleading truths saying the "majority" of the population have a European background is pretty misleading when the number is actually 51%.
Of course a country that was founded as British and French colonies will still have a lot of white people. That there's still white people in Toronto doesn't take anything away from what I've said. There's nearly 600,000 muslims in Toronto, that's quite a lot of them but somehow we've not all succumbed to Sharia law.
I said I didn't think there's an inherent problem with either, not that they're all perfect in their implementation across the Earth. There's no "debate" to have here unless you're going to tell me that people of multiple cultures inherently leads to problems, or that muslims inherently cause problems. If that's your position then I'm not having a debate with you.
As an aside, I find it pretty funny that in the gun, god, or discussions about black crime/policing online there's a big circlejerk about how much more progressive Europe is. Then when it comes to Islam you get Europeans who are so smug about what Bubba thinks about his AR-15, bible, and black people talking about how dangerous Islam and multicultural cities are. I see stuff said online by Europeans about muslims or Roma people ("gypsies") that they'd be frothing with rage if an American said them about a gay or a black person.
http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/nhs-enm/2011/dp-pd/prof/details/page.cfm?Lang=E&Geo1=CMA&Code1=535&Data=Count&SearchText=toronto&SearchType=Begins&SearchPR=01&A1=Ethnic origin&B1=All&Custom=&TABID=1
Now as ethnic backgrounds can get a bit confusing, as people can have more than one ethnic background, but it's still more useful than going by visible minorities, I'm going to go by the major headings in the link. Top responses by country is here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Toronto (at the bottom of the cultural diversity section)
And going by that you get an overall number of 6,440,470 of responses, with 3,646,475 being either European or North American (With only 13.2% of the population (728,000 people) saying they have a Canadian ethnic background) and 2,793,995 being all other ethnic origins, which is 43.4% to 56.6%. So you're right in that there is a high number of people in the all other ethnic origins category and that Toronto is very multicultural, that's not the issue, the issue is that you ignored the ethnic background of 56.6% of the population (approx.) seemingly on purpose. Which is quite misleading especially considering as my second link showed the top responses for ethnic background is dominated by Western European countries, none of which got a mention in your list for whatever reason.
There's nearly 600,000 muslims in Toronto, that's quite a lot of them but somehow we've not all succumbed to Sharia law.
The UK has 2.8 million (2011), your point? You see numbers aren't too useful without context, or percentages, and the only reason I can see to only state a number is to try and exaggerate the actual amount, and considering that was the only statistic you failed to give a percentage for (and the only one you presented as a number), I'm lead to believe that's what you were aiming to do. Also if I want to be really picky the number itself seems exaggerated, at least based on the 2011 statistics which said 8.2% of 5.5 million people were Muslim, which works out as about 450,000 Muslims.
So in other words, the statistics do back up my argument that you ignored the ethnic background of most of the population to make your argument seem more valid, or at least that's how it appears.
EDIT: It's also worth noting I don't necessarily disagree with your argument, just the way you're presenting and defending it.
EDIT2: Moving to multiculturalism thread when I get home.
