Donald Trump has only been president for days, and he’s already changed the world. In fact, he was doing so before he was even inaugurated for the second time.
Anticipating the Trump presidency, people across the Western world are shrugging off the pall of wokeness. Even Canadians rate Donald Trump twice as highly as their own recently departed prime minister.
And they’re backing his stance on mass immigration and illegals.
Nearly half of all Canadians believe that mass deportations are necessary to stop illegal migration, new polling shows.
A Leger poll done for the Association for Canadian Studies found that 48 per cent of Canadians hold that view – just once percentage point shy of Americans polled who, with the election of Donald Trump, could see such a policy enacted when he assumes office next year.
Canadians will only be able to watch on with envy as Trump’s mass deportations start rolling out.
It’s not just illegals, either. Canadians are as fed up as any other Western country with being flooded with the detritus of the developing world, hands out for whatever they can grab.
The polling also found that 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.
So much for Canadians priding themselves on their ‘progressive’ attitudes to immigration. They’ve had enough: virtue-signalling is all well and good until the harsh reality of mass immigration hits hard.
Canadians’ views are hardening on regular immigrants, who have been blamed for increasing housing costs and employment challenges, and the federal government, after overseeing the settlement of hundreds of thousands of newcomers per year, has moved to cut its immigration targets.
Canadians can see right through such window dressing, though.
“At least to this point, (the cuts) didn’t modify public opinion,” said Jack Jedwab, president of the Association for Canadian Studies, who will be discussing migration governance at a conference in Washington, DC on Thursday […]
Among those polled who said they were aware of the lowered immigration targets, 67 per cent still said it was too many. Among those who were not aware of lowered targets, 79 per cent said Canada was taking in too many people.
What’s remarkable is how consistent the immigration fatigue is across all walks of Canadian life.
While residents living in rural communities today are slightly more likely to support the sentiment (69.4 per cent) compared to urbanites (62.9 per cent), the feelings are widespread.
Likewise, there are small gender gaps on the issue, with men expressing slightly more negative sentiments about immigrants (43 per cent) than women (38 per cent).
Confounding the cosy assumptions of the ‘progressive’ left, non-whites are actually less likely to be pro-immigrant.
When asked about their view of immigrants, respondents who identify as white had both a slightly more positive (51 per cent) and negative (41 per cent) view than those who identified as not white or a visible minority. Only 48 per cent of the latter group had a very or somewhat positive view of immigrants.
The opposition to immigration also confounds income brackets. Both those making under $40k per year and those making over $80k were equally opposed (47 per cent and 46 per cent respectively). Only the middle-income earners were significantly less opposed to immigration, at 36 per cent.
The next four years are gonna be epic.
