Marek Wysocki

2017-02-10 08:39:20 -0500

Other polls have consistently shown these kinds of results (polls dealing with Kellie Leitch’s proposal to screen immigrants for Canadian values indicated most Canadians support this). And of course, the 20% figure was based on a fairly “extreme” question – asking whether people favored a halt to all immigration. Had the question been, for example, “Do you favor reducing the amount of immigration into the country?” or something along that line, the results would undoubtedly have been more pronounced.



Jay Fayza is correct that Canadians never voted for the policy of mass immigration. This was the case with Swedes in the early 1970s, when their government decided to transform that nation fundamentally and irreversibly, all without the people’s consent. And look where it’s gotten them: Sweden is on the cusp of becoming a violent, lawless and poor Third World state.) In fact, this is the case in the entire West (though mass immigration and multiculturalism, interestingly, are not a “thing” anywhere else in the world. Curious, that.) Does anyone seriously doubt that Canadians (and people from other Western nations) would have had major reservations about mass immigration, and almost certainly have rejected the idea in a referendum. We’ve had years of propaganda thrown at us, assuring us of the benefits of multiculturalism, and yet high percentages of Canadians are not convinced. And why might that be?



Well, we see the consequences in our day to day lives. Increased violence, lack of assimilation, groups identifying first by any other designation than Canadian (Muslim being the biggie, of course: it’s tempting to think that mass immigration would have been far more successful if immigration from Muslim-majority countries had not been included in the deal. Just speculation, though). Also, wages are driven down and pressure is put on social services in general. But the immigration of course prompts increases in demand for things like housing (these people have to live somewhere, after all), translators, bureaucrats (to handle welfare claims), police and security (!) and so on. These demands generate revenue, obviously, but only for a rather privileged and restricted sub-class of society. Big business, for example, sees lower wages as a positive thing. So naturally these kinds of people tend to favor mass immigration – for practical (selfish) reasons, though they may claim some stuff about human rights and compassion, of course.



But the average person doesn’t benefit from lower wages (to say the least), from longer lineup and waiting lists for social or health services, or for housing. The average person sees the drastic changes to their neighbourhood; the segregation of different groups, cultural or religious, and feels their very identity and their nation’s identity being taken from them without their having consented to this. And the average person feels, I presume, rather powerless, because these massive societal changes have been foisted on her or him, and continue to be, and there seems little that can be done to stop it. A Canadian Donald Trump? I wish it were possible….

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