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“This (law) is the most significant rollback of refugee rights in Canada in over a decade,” said Adam Sadinsky of the Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers. “It’s disappointing that Canada has joined other countries in a race to the bottom in terms of protection of rights for migrants and vulnerable people.”
Something something PP would have been worse.
Which, yes, I agree, but this still isn’t a good look.
It certainly isn’t a good look. And it’s also bad policy. But this direction is what got Carney elected. People were blaming Trudeau for employment difficulties due to immigration. Carney’s change in direction on this file allowed many people to reconsider the liberals. That and his great messaging on trump in contrast to pp - but that likely wouldn’t have been enough in its own. And imagine how bad it would be with pp.
“People” were not blaming immigrants, the right wing propaganda machine was. Immigrants pay taxes, start businesses, innovate and create wealth. The anti-immigration rhetoric risks making Canada a right wing shithole country like the US.
Yes they totally were. Even leftists were talking about the scam college pathways funneling people to take up all the service jobs. Canadian born youth didn’t have a chance at getting jobs. And that was actually true by the stats. The government was aiming for higher and higher immigration numbers and it was disruptive. Yes, we obviously need immigrants, lots of them and they’re a huge plus to the economy. But the rhetoric on the street in trudeaus’s last weeks was very much that the liberals had gone too far. The clear reversal by Carney was politically well timed. And I think he knows what he’s doing to balance the levels as best as possible in these difficult times.