{"id":22096,"date":"2019-10-25T13:24:35","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T17:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/?p=22096"},"modified":"2019-10-25T13:24:37","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T17:24:37","slug":"canada-election-immigration-limits-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2019\/10\/25\/canada-election-immigration-limits-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada Triangulates Toward More Immigration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hours after the polls closed in Canada on Monday night, President Donald Trump tweeted, \u201cCongratulations to @JustinTrudeau<\/a> on a wonderful and hard fought victory. Canada is well served.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trudeau\u2019s \u201cvictory\u201d<\/a> was hardly convincing. The prime minister\u2019s Liberal Party actually garnered fewer votes (33.1 percent) than the Conservative Party (34.4 percent) and may now align with the socialist New Democratic Party to form a minority government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Canada\u2019s immigration enthusiasts, the election was<\/em> a solid win. The People\u2019s Party of Canada<\/a>, the lone voice for reducing immigration levels, was trounced. All 300 of its candidates, including leader Maxime Bernier<\/a>, lost. PPC couldn\u2019t even get traction in Bernier\u2019s home province of Quebec, where the infamous Roxham Road<\/a> has become a conduit for tens of thousands of illegal aliens crossing into Canada from upstate New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe do hear Canadians concerned about immigration, but the way it was framed with the PPC didn\u2019t resonate with more than a handful of Canadians across the country,\u201d said Simon Fraser University<\/a> political science instructor Stewart Prest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Canada\u2019s National Observer<\/a> saw it, \u201cThere remains evidence of an underlying, largely unaddressed unease within the electorate, which is split, roughly equally, into those who support high levels of immigration, those who oppose it and those who support it with conditions.\u201d Bottom line: The country is triangulating toward more immigration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a recent Pew Research Center<\/a> poll, 68 percent of Canadians said immigrants make the country stronger \u2014 the highest percentage of 18 countries surveyed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Though an exact voter breakdown is not yet available, Liberals clearly benefited from immigrants at the polls. The party won 84 percent<\/a> of majority-immigrant districts in the 2015 national election; City News Toronto<\/a> reported that voter turnout in high-immigrant districts continued to climb this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Canada\u2019s ever-rising tide of new arrivals \u2013 first-generation immigrants now account for one of every five people in the country \u2013 will surely beget more newcomers. Liberals, NDP and even mainstream Conservatives all support raising admissions annually. Trudeau has also promised to broaden and expand family reunification<\/a> programs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cImmigration levels are poised to rise even further under a Liberal minority government. Canada could aim for approximately 370,000 immigrants by 2023,\u201d noted the Canada Immigration Newsletter<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the\nLiberal pledge to waive citizenship fees for eligible permanent residents\nreflecting Ottawa\u2019s warm and inviting immigration policies, Monday\u2019s election\nresults indicate that Trudeau\u2019s welcome wagon will keep on rolling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are\ntwo cautionary lessons here for Americans who desire a sustainable immigration\nsystem. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

First,\ntrying to be Trudeau-Lite on immigration didn\u2019t help Conservatives defeat a\nLiberal prime minister any more than Mitt Romney\u2019s version of Obama-Lite did in\n2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Second,\npoorly conceived immigration\npolicies eventually develop not only a constituency of their own, but voting\nblocs of people who have a personal stake in perpetuating and expanding them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hours after the polls closed in Canada on Monday night, President Donald Trump tweeted, \u201cCongratulations to @JustinTrudeau on a wonderful and hard fought victory. Canada is well served.\u201d Trudeau\u2019s \u201cvictory\u201d was hardly convincing. The prime minister\u2019s Liberal Party actually garnered fewer votes (33.1 percent) than the Conservative Party (34.4 percent) and may now align with<\/p>\n

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