65 per cent of Canadians say Canada is accepting too many legal immigrants. That figure, less than a year ago in February, was just 50 per cent. In March 2019, only 35 per cent of Canadians held that view.

Background:

Based on this poll https://acs-metropolis.ca/studies/negative-sentiment-towards-immigrants-in-canada-is-on-the-rise/

Has an n of 1612. 50% admit not having a good understanding of immigration policy.

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Comments on /r/Canada are so fucking weird. Someone literally said “I was an immigrant turned citizen and I support this”. It’s like: now that you have your citizenship you aren’t considered an immigrant anymore? Wow.

Edit changes “I am” for “I was”

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https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/221026/dq221026a-eng.htm

??? 23% of all Canadians are first-generation immigrants. Permanent Residents are legal immigrants. 48% probably includes some of these immigrants that want to deport themselves. What are y’all smoking?

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And most Canadians are descended from immigrants who arrived in the past century.

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Like 98% if you extend that to two centuries.

We’re an immigrant nation, which is arguably how we’ve kept a lid on xenophobia until now. (And still are, probably; they chose the most doomer stats for the headline)

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It’s due to the housing crisis. If we had the infrastructure to support the influx of immigrants, Canadians wouldn’t be so opposed to them.

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I’m guessing it’s almost entirely within the 70% that “just” have immigrant grandparents.

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Now’s that’s the title of a study I want to read:

What are y’all smoking?

Abstract: Akrasia + Social Media = WTF

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I’m not for mass deportation, but if you’re an immigrant yourself and you’re calling for this I think you should set a good example and take off.

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Fuck Nat. po.

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True

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If ‘Fuck Nat. po.’ = True, why did you post it?

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Because I happened to be reading it and it is ok to read and share things from sources you don’t necessarily like.

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Postmedia is stepping up its Fox Newsification of Canadian news

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sadly, i have heard these comments from people in my area. they of course are talking about Indian students. “they take up bus space, they take our jobs, they open their own restaurants, they don’t follow Canadian values”. a lot of hate spewing from these people.

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Canadian values seem to have evaporated in the last ten years. I feel like we’re almost unidentifiable when viewed next to Americans in a crowd now. There’s still a few big differences, but politically we’re in near lock step just a few years behind America. At least, that’s the vibe I get speaking with anyone older than 40. Social media has turned Canada into a Kuato-like attachment to America’s hip, except instead of calling the shots we’re just along for the ride as the host begins its descent into a death rattle.

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Yes there are alot of things i find similar to how people act here vs the US. We need to bring back our separate identity but we also have to remember they are our neighbors down there. People don’t even talk to their neighbors here anymore. Having said that, these people have been very kind to me and down to earth, i have not seen anything negative about them.

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