Tod MaffinCanadian Commentator, From Far and Wide · Emotional Support Canadian

These damned immigrants.

16 Jan 2026 · 2 min

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In this YouTube monologue, the speaker adopts a xenophobic, anti‑immigrant stance toward Somali Canadians. He opens by invoking a sarcastic reference to “Supreme Benevolent Leader Chairman Trump,” then proceeds to list a series of Somali‑led businesses, professional achievements, media ventures, and community institutions—restaurants, trucking firms, tech startups, a health‑tech company, award‑winning entrepreneurs, a TV channel, a high‑school named after a Somali founder, settlement agencies, youth programs, and a large cultural centre. Rather than celebrating these contributions, the speaker frames them as an invasion, accusing Somalis of “destroying” Canada, “flooding” the country with educated professionals, and infiltrating media and charitable work. The tone is hostile, dismissive, and sarcastically justified, concluding that Somali Canadians are doing exactly what the speaker claims immigrants should not do.

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Supreme Benevolent Leader Chairman Trump has issues with the Somali people, and you know what? I don't blame him. They're responsible for a lot up here in Canada too. They started showing up in the '90s with nothing, and then instead of staying quietly desperate like good immigrants should do, they started opening businesses. Restaurants, trucking companies. Who gave these people the right to just walk in and start paying taxes? Somali people keep opening companies up left, right, and center. Tech startups and import-export firms and transportation companies. This guy, Khalid Hashi, built a health tech company in Alberta focused on maternal and child health. His company took from this country Awards. International recognition. Somali kids end up going to colleges and universities at much higher rates than our people, flooding this country with engineers and teachers and nurses and professionals. Completely inconsiderate. They're starting to infiltrate the media here too. One of them founded Integration TV and spent years telling positive stories about Somali life that makes it much harder for people to stereotype. The whole thing was so disturbing that Ontario named a high school after her. And they stick their nose everywhere, building community institutions like settlement agencies and youth programs, English classes, job training, In Ottawa, Somali organizations raised money for Syrian refugees. Former refugees helping new refugees. What the hell is even that? Toronto's now getting a 100,000 square foot Somali Centre for Culture and Recreation. It's gonna have sports gyms and art spaces and employment services, and they're going to let everyone use it, even the white people. Listen, if Somali Canadians keep destroying our country this way, we are going to have to admit the worst possible truth. They're doing exactly what we said we wanted immigrants to do.