Elizabeth Thompson, Standard-Freeholder (Cornwall, Ont.), June 26, 2009
The number of Canadians who say immigration has a positive effect on their community has dropped “noticeably” over the past two years and is now at the lowest level since the government started tracking attitudes in 2004.
A public opinion poll conducted for the immigration department earlier this year found there is still strong support among most Canadians for immigration and most Canadians consider immigration beneficial. But it also showed signs that support might be slipping.
The last time the department conducted a tracking poll in August 2007, 59% of respondents said immigration had a very positive or somewhat positive impact on their community compared to 50 per cent in January 2009.
The poll also showed a slight drop in the belief that cultural diversity strengthens Canadian culture. While a majority of Canadians, 55%, agreed with it, that was down from a high of 61% in July 2004.
The poll also found a shift when it came to the challenges that newcomers face. The number of respondents who identified employment as a top challenge rose to its highest level since they started tracking it in 2005. While language was cited as a top challenge, those who cited employment rose to 40% from 15% in November 2006.
In general, the more educated the respondents, the more they favoured immigration. The poll also found regional differences, with residents of Ontario (32%) and Alberta (29%) more likely to think too many immigrants are coming to Canada versus Atlantic Canada where only 16% felt that way.
The poll showed 82% supported allowing temporary workers to gain permanent resident status once they have worked in Canada a few years but little sympathy for undocumented or illegal immigrants. The poll found 67% believe undocumented workers should be deported—with Alberta coming in highest at 74%.
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(Posted on June 29, 2009)
Comments
In my experience, the number one cause of “racism” is the intermingling of races. Most Canadians who still support immigration probably live in lilly white neighborhoods. The balance of opinion will no doubt shift against immigration once Canada is as saturated with third world invaders as California. Unfortunately, by the time this happens it will be too late to reverse the damage.
Maybe the drop in support for diversity had something to do with Jared Taylor’s ‘banned in Halifax’ speech and the subsequent media attention. Click on the Canadian flag on the front page to find out.
What will happen is by the time most native Canadians realize how third world immigration is turning their country into the sort of trash heap like the countries so many of these immigrants come from, it will be too late, as they will likely be close to being a minority themselves at that point, and their political power to make the proper changes will be lost forever.
The reason that opposition to immigration is highest in Ontario and Alberta is because that’s where most of the third world immigrants head to. The Atlantic provinces are very largely white, with very restricted third world immigration, so it’s quite easy for residents there to smile upon multiculturalism and cultural invasion, as it’s not something they have to put up with. White residents of Toronto, now a minority in Canada’s biggest metropolis, would see it entirely differently.
Here on the Canadian prairies, it’s now shocking to see women in chadors and burkas striding around in a couple of the largest cities. This is redneck country, and I wonder to myself, “What happened?!?”
In general, the more educated the respondents, the more they favoured immigration.
This is because the more educated (read, better paid) don’t have to live with the riff-raff coming in as “immigrants” especially hostile african or Paki muslims.
Anybody that thinks cultural diversity….or any other kind for that matter….strengthens a country is either mentally retarded or brainwashed thoroughly. I’d like to run into several of them so I could sell all of them shares in the Brooklyn Bridge.
I’ve also got some solid land to sell them, if they don’t mind about 20 feet of water over it, filled with alligators.
“The poll also found regional differences, with residents of Ontario (32%) and Alberta (29%) more likely to think too many immigrants are coming to Canada versus Atlantic Canada where only 16% felt that way. ”
Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, P.E.I. & Newfoundland simply don’t have an inordinate number of “immigrants” that warrant much attention, hence their high approval ratings. It need not be explained here that today’s immigrants can be interpreted to mean “visible minorities”.
In fact, several Atlantic Canadian cities Canadian Institute for Advanced Research probably because 90%-95% of their population consist of White Canadians.
I have been living in Toronto for quite a few years by now and I can certainly attest.
“What will happen is by the time most native Canadians realize how third world immigration is turning their country into the sort of trash heap like the countries so many of these immigrants come from”
I don’t want to be displaced by them even if it makes the country better. I am a racist for hoping there is a future for the white race.
Well life under the conservatives and harper is not any better than under the liberals.
In fact when the liberals were in power, the foreigners stuck to the big three like Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal.
Now we see in smaller communities a BIG influx of blacks.
I will never vote for a conservative representative again.
White people are truly the most unintelligent group you could ever find. Nothing but bleeding hearts that think multi-culturalism and diversity are great.
Ya, it is ok when there is one of them to a thousand of us.
Those were the good old days.
Harper and his group of traitors will lose the next election.
And this in a country with a relatively low population and wide, open spaces that we don’t have in the UK.
Not a great advertisement for multiculturalism, is it?
‘In general, the more educated the respondents, the more they favoured immigration.’
Sorry Folks,I misquoted Oscar Wilde in my previous post but the misquote is still in context.The verbatim maxim of Wilde is;
The reason for the highest dislike of immigration in Ontario is very simple. 80% of the immigrants to Canada land up in Ontario.
“[Prime Minister] Harper and his group of traitors will lose the next election ”. Post #10
It doesn’t matter what political party in any western nation is holding the reins of government because they’re all working on the same mass immigration page.
White people are the real minorities on this planet, yet there is very little opposition to stem the flow of 3rd world immigrants flooding into whatever prosperous White countries we have left.
To commenter # 4 I agree 100%. I too ask myself “What Happened?” I mean what happened. I am simply stunned that we allow non-European immigrants in when it is quite obvious that they are a burden and have primitive, violent tendencies.
My country used to be the envy of the world and a proud member of the Anglosphere. Yet our “genius” “Leaders” decided to mess with a good thing in the 1960s and now we have a disaster on our hands.
The reason for the highest dislike of immigration in Ontario is very simple. 80% of the immigrants to Canada land up in Ontario
In grande military terms, Ontario would be called a “beach Head”
I can relate to what Matt is saying. I also live on the Canadian prairies and when I grab the bus each morning, there is/are usually one or two women in burkas waiting there as well!
As for the decline in support in immigration; perhaps there is an inverse relationship to the influx in the gangsta culture, and the spike in gun-related murders, in Toronto. That is Canada’s largest city, after all.
