A majority of Canadians want the country to accept fewer immigrants and temporary residents next year, according to a new Nanos Research survey commissioned by CTV News, as the country continues to grapple with immigration levels and their impact on housing, services and the economy.
The survey found that 52.3 per cent of respondents believe Canada should accept fewer immigrants and temporary residents in 2027, compared with 33.5 per cent who want the numbers to remain about the same.
I think this is very important to realize. People look for someone to blame when they can’t afford food and, unfortunately, it tends to be people who don’t look like them. It’s hard for any democratically elected politician to state they’re not going to do what 50% of the voting population believes will solve all their problems.
Progressive candidates have a huge uphill battle if they’re ever going to be seen as “electable”. They have to convince 50% of the population that minorities aren’t the cause of all their problems.
Immigrants are not the problem, you’re right. Canada’s current immigration system, that Trudeau weakened, is. You can solve the latter without blaming the former.
Can we please blame corporate greed and the wealthy? Trudeau, whatever he was, is absolutely a red herring thrown in by conservative media to prevent right leaning people from thinking too hard about civics.
edit; blame the LPC as whole even. But lets not feed into the bumper sticker politics.
Justin was instrumental in he decay of Canada’s immigration policy.
Nah I’ll do both. Timmigrants exploiting LMIA loopholes was only allowed through Trudeau’s administration. They used to have policies where they wouldn’t allow this when unemployment was above a threshold, which was removed post covid. Only after the batshit insane influx of 1M+ tfw in a single year was massively swinging people away from LPC did they decide to reverse it, but the damage was already done.
Jesus christ
Okay, Harper cracked the door and Trudeau tore the door off. And during Trudeau’s two minorities, Singh supported it.
“Corporate greed” is what the people who voted for Trudeau and Singh say to excuse themselves for what they voted for.
The same LPC that is pulling back from those immigration numbers at Carney’s direction?
Conveniently ignoring that the Conservatives also supported the same immigration expansion policies, more than the NDP too, I see.
Can you guess why Cons, despite how much they signalled total opposition to the Liberals, never actually disagreed with them on immigration? For a clue, look into how close knit both Liberals and Con politicians are with companies like Uber.
If you think neoliberal politics don’t serve corporations, you’re in for a shock.
Politics in general serves corporations. The only thing that might change if the NDP somehow got elected is the corporations politics is serving, and even that’s up for debate. But there’s a reason all three parties are pro-immigration, and there’s a reason the NDP’s calling the Conservatives’ BS messaging on immigration racist. That new pathway the LPC is taking to convert TFWs to permanent residents? That was an NDP idea.
What a disgusting way to describe immigration, shame on you.
I mean, how else would you describe the largest population increase in history (2022-2023)?
This way, but putting into context narratives of being “crowded out” and not having enough “stuff” for more people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_of_Canada
And this is why we should not use Wikipedia as a primary source. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/statistics-canada-population-growth-9.7361422
The numbers being revised does not change the overall trend.
https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/canada-population/
Less is a pretty open ended response.
Like I would probably vote in that category, not because I hate Sikhs/Filipinos but because the average immigrant is not able to build a life and ends up leaving after several years and thousands of dollars lost.
Immigrants can’t ‘assimilate’ if they’re effective forced into indentured servitude full time where their employer effectively controls their lives. (I’ve worked with people in that situation and its fucking brutal on their mental health)
There is real exploitation going on and the simplest solution is to reduce the supply of exploitable people until we have a plan and capacity for everyone coming to Canada.
citation needed
There were immigration consultants telling people overseas they’re guaranteed citizenship if they pay them to apply to a Canadian institution as an international student.
Women were forced into sexual slavery because going back home wasn’t a valid option for them. Their family had spent every penny they had to chase a better future in the West for their kid. I’m sure it’s still happening but more hush hush after it became obvious that the majority of Canada isn’t onboard with such high immigration.
Any and every single conversation on immigration used to be immediately accused of ulterior motives few years ago. We built a permanent underclass of mostly non-white people and you’d get accused of racism if you point out the obvious exploitative nature of our government’s policies.
While agreeing with most of the above, progressive candidates don’t have to convince 50% of the population that minorities aren’t the cause of their problems. They have to talk about the big, obvious inrerests picking people’s pockets and offer solutions to that, as well as solutions to the material problems caused by 50 years of state abdication from fulfilling people’s needs which markets refuse to fulfill. In other words the progressives have to describe the whole problem and let people make the obvious conclusions themselves. I bet that over time, not all, but enough of them will.