Sunday’s Conservative leadership debate in Vancouver continued to raise alarm over the federal Liberals’ refugee policies, as the flood of asylum-seekers swells over the U.S. border into Manitoba, Quebec — and now even B.C., Metro reported last week.
But while some have dismissed as “fringe” some of the party’s leading candidates to replace ex-Prime Minister Stephen Harper, notably immigration critics Kellie Leitch and Kevin O’Leary, a new opinion poll suggests the sentiment is more widely shared by Canadians than previously thought.
An Angus Reid Institute survey of 1,508 Canadians discovered that one-in-four would actually support a Donald Trump-style ban on accepting Syrian refugees into the country.
That stands in contrast to the widely shared photographs this weekend of smiling Canadian police officers carrying asylum-seeking children across the border — less widely shared were subsequent images of the same officers arresting and handcuffing some of the refugees.
It appears that not all Canadians are welcoming of the newcomers. More than half, for instance, agreed with the statement: “Too many refugees don’t make enough of an effort to fit into mainstream Canadian society.”
And two-in-five of those polled, or 38 per cent, believed that “many people in their community would not be welcoming to a refugee family,” according to the Feb. 6-9 poll released overnight on Monday.
TELL ME AGAIN THAT CANADA ISNT AS BAD AS THE STATES TELL ME RACISM DOESNT EXIST HERE TELL ME ISLAMOPHOBIA ISNT THE NORM HERE
yall fucking hypocrites gladly spread this bullshit myth to make yourselves feel less complicit in institutionalized and systemic racism. canadians are god awful when it comes to how we regard, consume, interact and protect PoC and don’t listen to a damn word we might say otherwise!!!
I’m gonna reblog this because being complacent, thinking we are morally better, smarter, more caring than our southern neighbours will get us in trouble once again. We already had too many years of Stephen Harper secretly degrading our country.
There is no reason to believe an idiot like Trump couldn’t “mysteriously” win here. We already have several openly racist, openly xenophobic people running for leadership of a very major political party, the official opposition to Trudeau’s Liberals.
Stop it now. Swallow the bile that rises in your throat at the thought and register as a Conservative and vote against the worst of them, Leitch, Bernier, Alexander, and our own overrated tv idiot, Kevin O’Leary.
Play it safe because what is happening in the US can easily happen here. Don’t let it.
There’s a group in Toronto that chanted anti-Islamic stuff outside a mosque last Friday while people were trying to go in to pray. A slightly larger counter-demo started up once it was reported, but we need to keep an eye on this.
1-in-4 Canadians want ‘ban on Syrian refugees’ like Trump: poll
Mooncustafer 