Canada is a very welcoming country, there’s no doubt about that. I have smiled to strangers (and their dogs!) in a week here more than I smiled to strangers back home in all my life. I go in a shop and the shopkeeper is smiling and asking how my day has been. The small talk was definitely an adjustment but the more people you meet, the better you get. My experience with the new people in the campus isn’t the most amazing but it certainly wasn’t bad. People just usually mind their business in the college and you just get to exist and live your life.

That being said, the dissonant voices online offer a different perspective. I have read comments in social media sites like Instagram I’m not willing to reiterate. These kinds of comments have risen more, these voices have grown louder as soon as the news of the possibility of deportation for thousands of international students came out. There are dozens of voices agreeing to the deportation and suddenly, the city doesn’t feel welcoming anymore.

Are all these opinions just bolstered by the absence of a physical consequence and the hive mentality? Or are these the true opinions and what people truly believed in? What do you think?