Poll finds more than half of Canadians want fewer immigrants than Ottawa’s target

[CdnFox]

https://archive.ph/rHrwP

Fifty-three per cent of those polled said they want to see Canada accept fewer immigrants than the federal plan, compared with 34 per cent in March. Just over a third say they want Ottawa to accept about the same number as projected while 8 per cent think Canada should accept more.

Nik Nanos, chairman of Nanos Research, said pressure on housing was a factor in the polling results. He said the responses reflected “the intersection of the pressure on housing affordability with views on immigration.”

They are probably “more about the economic pressure Canadians feel they are under, especially the cost of housing than anything else.

“Regardless of Canada’s tradition of welcoming newcomers, there is a reality that people are wondering where the new people will live and what it might mean in terms of even more pressure on housing.”

 

Edited September 12, 2023 by CdnFox

[CdnFox]

The problem isn't really immigration or immigrants.  It's that we don't have any where to put them or the resources to provide with health or proper integration into our society.

Trudeau went too far too fast with that and didn't spend even a single second thinking about the problems it would cause.  not JUST housing tho that's the worst - but also inflation in general. If more people are buying more things then it puts upward pressures on inflation.

[I am Groot]

That's not the only problem. It's just the only problem you're allowed to cite in a country where any expression of pride in country or nation, in its history, accomplishments, values and traditions draws howls of accusations of 'white nationalism', or 'xenophobia' or 'racism'. You aren't allowed to say letting in tens of millions of immigrants from places with wildly different values and cultures without the time to absorb them will destroy any sense of shared identity or history. We're not allowed to care about our culture being washed away or to wonder or worry about what will replace it. Unless you're French, of course. Then you're encouraged to take pride in your unique identity and history and values and culture.

But we've let the leftist ideologues take over our schools and universities, our media and artistic groups, even our museums to the point they all wallow in hand wringing guilt at everything about Canada's and the Western world's culture, values and history. Hell, our museums hate everything about Canada and are busy 'decolonizing' their collections, which means eliminating anything that even hints of any pride in our history. Our artistic groups and the government that funds them (they're all talentless welfare whores who couldn't fund a single book or movie without government cheques) spew out nothing but guilt-mongering stories designed to make anyone who isn't a member of a protected identity group feel ashamed of their existence. Our media is nothing but a pack of ideologues regurgitating every American progressive inspired platitude about race and society. And you'll find more truth and realism on the Disney channel than in our universities. 

Six years ago the Immigration department itself warned that Canada was reaching its 'absorbtive capacity' and that new immigrants weren't learning the language as much, were settling into ethnic enclaves more, weren't becoming in an way 'Canadian' because there were just too many of them and they were so regularly reinforced by more. And the Liberals said "who cares" and just upped the numbers more and more. And nobody complained because to care about Canada's culture and native values is, to the progressives who infest our cultural industries and media, akin to declaring your allegiance to Adolph Hitler.

I suspect what our future culture and values are going to resemble is something closer to a mix of India, China and mainstream Islam. And the only good thing about that will be watching all the progressives' jaws drop as they start electing leaders who don't think anything about gay sex should be legal, that natives should just shut the hell up about the past and get to work, and that women should properly spend their time at home in the kitchen.

[Michael Hardner]

Blah blah blah...

Read the playbook.... Muslims are our friends now because they're protesting trans people....

[Zeitgeist]

1 hour ago, Michael Hardner said:

Blah blah blah...

Read the playbook.... Muslims are our friends now because they're protesting trans people....

Yup.  I prefer Muslim values to the creepy Marxist-Nihilist groomers every day of the week.  Groot is exactly right in his last post about every single point.  You’re an apologist for the mess the woke tyrants have made.  Is it because you’re a boomer sitting on high priced real estate?  That’s really it, isn’t it?  Damn affordability for the younger generations if bringing in a million immigrants lifts my property values and destroys quality of life for the riff raff. I’ve got my country retreat. I’m alright Jack. What’s this nonsense about Canada’s culture?  Bunch of red neck truckers and farmers. I’ve got my Rosedale retreat.

Edited September 12, 2023 by Zeitgeist

[Nexii]

4 minutes ago, Zeitgeist said:

Yup.  I prefer Muslim values to the creepy Marxist-Nihilist groomers every day of the week.  Groot is exactly right in his last post about every single point.  You’re an apologist for the mess the woke tyrants have made.  Is it because you’re a boomer sitting on high priced real estate?  That’s really it, isn’t it?  Damn affordability for the younger generations if bringing in a million immigrants lifts my property values and destroys quality of life for the riff raff. I’ve got my country retreat. I’m alright Jack. What’s this nonsense about Canada’s culture?  Bunch of red neck truckers and farmers. I’ve got my Rosedale retreat.

I miss the old Canada, when we had a fiscally right but socially left party. All the current options are awful 

[CdnFox]

14 minutes ago, Nexii said:

I miss the old Canada, when we had a fiscally right but socially left party. All the current options are awful 

Then go fiscally right and deal with your left wing issues on the local level - provincial and regional.  That's how it should be anyway. There really is no such thing as "socially left and fiscally right".  Smaller fed is better and that way people can do what they want closer to home and there's less anger and frustration between the provinces.

[Moonlight Graham]

According to progressives, reducing immigration levels, regardless of reason, is racist.  Putting part of the blame for housing inflation on the increase in immigration, even if true, is racist.  Progressives are typically incapable of solving problems if the logical solutions to those problems might be deemed offensive to someone's feelings.  Protecting people's feelings is more important than doing what's right.

If you debate the housing cost issue with progressives most will never admit that immigration levels may be part of the issue driving demand and housing inflation higher.  This is similar to discussing climate change with an environmental conservative who will never admit AGW is occurring no matter how much evidence is presented to them.  In both cases, their feelings & ideology are more important than the data and evidence.  People who think like this should not be put in charge of solving society's problems since they lack the ability to do so logically.

Now I will wait for the replies from progressives and conservatives whose feelings i've offended via the above statements.

[Moonbox]

On 9/11/2023 at 11:36 PM, Zeitgeist said:

Yup.  I prefer Muslim values to the creepy Marxist-Nihilist groomers every day of the week.  Groot is exactly right in his last post about every single point.  You’re an apologist for the mess the woke tyrants have made.  

Nobody can string together right-wing buzzwords like you.  Marxis-Nihilist-Groomers!  LOL!  ?