Short lived were the days of the mid-2010s where wokeness could be portrayed as a new phenomenon mostly confined to college campuses. Conservatives realized it wasn’t true that the blue-haired Social Justice Warriors of viral YouTube clips would soon be meeting ‘the real world’, with its lack of safe spaces – ‘the real world’ was […]
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When was the last time that you idled in Vancouver gridlock, stood packed like a sardine in a bus to Victoria, or hunted for a parking spot at the Nanaimo Costco, and thought: “You know, what this country needs is more people”? Probably never. However, a large portion of Canada’s political elite has turned this
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In the last few days, two new polls on Canadian immigration attitudes have been released from respected polling firms Leger and Abacus. The data shows that skepticism of large-scale immigration continues to increase among Canadians. Thresholds and Tensions: Unmasking Public Unease with Canada’s Immigration Goals (Abacus, November 30th, sample size of 2,000) Immigration Plan: Survey
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A Nanos poll for the Globe and Mail found that 53% of Canadians want the federal government to accept fewer immigrants than the projected 2023 target of 465,000 permanent residents. This is a rise of almost 20 percentage points since March, when only 34% of respondents wanted lower immigration. Just over a third of respondents
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According to a new CIBC report titled “Counting heads in Canada – a conundrum” there are a million more people in Canada than recorded by official statistics. The federal government is dramatically undercounting the number of “non-permanent residents” (work or study visa holders). Many do not fill out the census, and there is no system
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John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) wrote that social stigma can be stronger than legislative prohibition in suppressing controversial speech. He argued that silencing opinion prevents debate, obstructing society’s search for truth by turning officially sanctioned views into little more than indefensible prejudices. The social stigma around mass immigration is clearly shown by the unwillingness of Canadians
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