Canadians' views are hardening on regular immigrants, who have been blamed for increasing housing costs and employment challenges

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.

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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.

@Maverick604@lemmy.ca
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** Unless you are a recognized native person, WE ARE ALL IMMIGRANTS ** Jfc, you people are dumb.

I am the descendant of immigrants.

Where would I be sent if deported?

I only have one citizenship.

@Maverick604@lemmy.ca
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Being a citizen does not make you any less of an immigrant. Being a descendant of immigrants also, surprisingly still makes you an immigrant. So perhaps we should stop talking about punishing immigrants as if it’s some new novel thing that’s causing all our ills. Immigration evidently worked for all of us, so let’s try not to sh*t all over the people that follow us. Immigration built Canada and, if you’ve noticed our birth rate over the past decade, without immigration, Canada will die. Frankly we need them more than they need us.

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Oh, so several generations of my family were born here, we don’t have a single country of origin, (even if we knew it) doesn’t make me a natural born resident of my geographic area?

Fuck off with that dipshit idea.

Edit: please point out where being born in a country makes you an immigrant there.

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simple. throw yourself prostrate at the mercy of the local First Nation for refugee status. that’s the correct thing to do.

If not, you could be at risk of being an undocumented stateless person to wander the seas looking for a new home. Just like the boat people of not many decades ago that were despised by many of the so called “true north white and free”…

… or the Sea People, despised by the Hittites in the books of Joshua and Judges (bronze age collapse)

I have spoken
-Ya’con the Gutian

@HikingVet@lemmy.ca
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Gonna need a source on “true north white and free”…

Which version was that? because the official versions going back at least 4 decades didn’t say that.

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@HikingVet I first heard that , thrown as a taunt, at a small bridge crossing into Metepanagiag where a small blockade was assembled as a response to a commercial fishing lodge being put up at Curvington/Second Oxbow and some after skirmishes of the fisheries war. the comment may have also been thrown about around the lack of consultation during the failed Meech Lake Accord.

As in “who do you think you are? the true north white and free?!” they convinced me to stand with them. i never regret

@HikingVet@lemmy.ca
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Oh, so you head someone say something racist and the rest of us have to accpet the brush?

Jim Knowles
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@HikingVet no. one of the young first nations protesters yelled it at me. i had to look at my honkey privileged self, and realized that the bridge may have been the king george highway, but it was cutting through their absolute rightful territory.

Maybe the indigenous alone should have the right to choose who they want to come as students, refugees, workers, and professionals; and who will be replaced.

Play nice.

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So someone yells racist shit at you and you just fold. Got it.

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@HikingVet as you wish . are you a honkey too? i detect a thinning dermal organ on you.

I had a dear chinese friend who put up with a lot of racial slurs and brushed them off. It was an aggressive form of real skin cancer that killed her.

lets hope your thin white skin is from an actual medical condition. otherwise, dont be such a little crybaby when somebody stands up and contradicts your sense of entitlement.

Yeah, that’s a dumb take dude.

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