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Opinion: Immigrant and native-born Canadians align on many issues

The gap between views on representation, taxation and separation was less than 10 percentage points

Immigration has become a contentious issue across the Western world. The consternation in Canada results directly from flawed policy started by Justin Trudeau and his colleagues and which has only been lightly modified by his successor, Prime Minister Mark Carney.

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For example, the peak year for new permanent residents (and that does not include all new arrivals) to Canada was 2024 with 480,000 admitted. The federal government still plans to admit 380,000 new permanent residents annually in 2026, 2027 and 2028. Ottawa plans to admit about half of the number of students it used to admit previously and plans to cut new temporary workers arrivals by just over one-third. But these numbers are all still higher than pre-pandemic numbers.

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According to 2021 Census data, immigrants are forecasted to comprise 26 per cent of Canada’s population in 2026, the........

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