Many trends that start in the U.S. eventually reach Canada. The latest example is illegal aliens marching in the streets demanding rights to which they aren't entitled. The group "No One is Illegal (Toronto)" demands, among other things, a "National Regularization Program for non-status people" (nooneisillegal.org/about). More on them here.

On Saturday several hundreds of illegal aliens and their supporters held a march in Toronto, banging drums and chanting all the way, as the hugely sympathetic story "Afraid every morning I wake up" explains. As in the U.S., the press highlights the sympathetic victims and ignores the presumed ties and ideologies of the group involved. While they don't reveal any information on their site, I am going to assume that they're similar to ANSWER based on the terminology they use and their goals.

And, as in the U.S., Canadian politicians are confused over who and what they're supposed to represent:

...Olivia Chow, the Toronto NDP MP whose Trinity-Spadina riding has a large Portuguese component, told the crowd that she expects a motion asking the government to temporarily suspend deportations will pass at the committee level and come before the House of Commons this week...

...the Conservative government is taking a firm official stance on illegal immigrants.

"We have an obligation to the hundreds of thousands of people waiting to get into this country to make sure we don't reward those who don't play by the rules," Immigration Minister Monte Solberg has said.

Behind the scenes, however, the Conservatives are working hard to win over new Canadians whose votes are concentrated in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver -- cities that didn't elect even one Tory in the 2006 election.

"The Prime Minister's asked me, for instance, to work hard to build bridges with cultural communities in Canada who add tremendously to our wealth, both cultural and economic," said Jason Kenney, Prime Minister Stephen Harper's parliamentary secretary...

And, as in the U.S., the far-lefties have taken "direct action" (their version at sumoud.tao.ca/?q=node/view/572):

A speech by Immigration Minister Monte Solberg was abruptly cancelled Wednesday when a group of hecklers besieged him in an Ottawa church.

About a dozen protesters began shouting as Solberg took the podium...

...The demonstrators, who called for an immediate moratorium on all deportations, surrounded Solberg at the podium, and then blocked his exit from the church hall's front door.

When Solberg managed to slip out through the hall's back door, the protesters followed and circled his car. Police eventually cleared a path for the vehicle...

...Jaggi Singh, a well-known local activist who participated in the protest, dismissed Solberg's unheard speech as a "false dialogue" and defended the move to prevent him from delivering it...

As in the U.S., "conservatives" are "reaching out" to groups that have no interest in their current political system and would never support them under any conditions, instead of reaching out to their own citizens and to those immigrants who are willing to play by the rules. And, the press is silent on the exact nature of these groups.

UPDATE: More on Singh; first-person account of the Solberg speech here.