New study on PNP today – seems many immigrants are already leaving PEI and some aren’t happy – CBC tweet

Kerry Campbell has more on Compass tonight

Talk about your old news. The Chinese have left PEI in droves. Is there anyone still here?

A year ago the classrooms at Colonel Grey, Rural and Queen Charlotte were brimming with new Chinese students. Most of them were gone by spring.

New Chinese families moved in during 2009 and some of those students are still in the school system. They stay for the one year rule, get their refunds and leave.

According to one real estate we talked to in August, the Chinese immigrants were not buying houses in great numbers since most of them were bouncing out of PEI.

Why would they stay?

They don’t assimilate all that well due to language and cultural differences which the Province in just waking up to.

Even in large centers like Toronto and Vancouver, Chinese immigrants like to cluster in their own communities.

Apart from the obvious Chinatown in Toronto, the Chinese occupy large portions of North York which was a predominately blue collar and middle class Caucasian neighborhood for decades.

That’s not unusual: Toronto is a series of ethnic communities with multiple clusters of Greeks, Italians, East Indian and other ethnic groups.

Charlottetown and PEI is almost purely homogeneous northern European. The mono-culture on PEI is a challenge for any ethnic minority.

The minor scandal of the PNP is that the Province proclaims its desire for cultural diversity but has done nothing, literally nothing to make it happen.