Canada’s ‘holier than thou’ attitude on refugees
Like so many other issues, the top-down narrative on refugees in Canada is dripping with moralizing. Anyone bringing up questions of practicality routinely gets called racist, xenophobic or evil.
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Like so many other issues, the top-down narrative on refugees in Canada is dripping with moralizing. Anyone bringing up questions of practicality routinely gets called racist, xenophobic or evil.
Restoring Canada’s immigration policy to the ‘pre-Trudeau era’ won’t suffice. Decades before he appeared on the scene, immigration policy had stopped serving Canadians and newcomers alike.
What our immigration policy needs is comprehensive reform. Instead, we are getting piecemeal changes of a kneejerk nature, and self-congratulatory messaging from the Immigration Minister.
On the eve of the Minister Marc Miller announcing new annual targets for immigration, public opinion is starkly at odds with the prevailing narrative. Will he ‘listen to the people’?