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.
Racism is a factor but conversations on this topic used to be immediately shut down as racism by default all the time. Not the case as often now.
Precisely.
Person: “We should slow down our immigration rate.”
Someone else: “Don’t be racist.”
That’s the conversation, more or less, for most of Trudeau’s time in office. Now that Carney’s starting to do that, it’s not.
The idea that immigration should be slowed down IS racist, Canada is a MASSIVE country, immigration is not the problem it is the solution.
Reducing immigration levels is not racist. Our choices are reduce immigration levels or massively increase spending on infrastructure, and we’re allergic to the latter, collectively.
I’m kinda new here so I can’t comment on thread locks and overzealous modding. But legitimate arguments should be discussed. Its the bad faith actors, and conservative and Russian trolls who latch on to any real argument to shoehorn in their hate and disinformation. Look at how well it worked in Brexit.