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Originally Posted by Manic!
That is Jaswinder Singh Dilawari. He came to Canada as an immigrant 5 years ago and runs a immigration company. He was the candidate for the PPC in Surrey Centre. Your hate for immigration is telling. |
I don't have any hate for immigration, as you seem to insist. Or where people come from for that matter; so long as they're generally peaceful, law abiding, and hard working. Which most immigrants are.
My worry is the systems that are clearly stretched by an increasing population. Healthcare, housing, infrastructure, etc.
It just didn't make much sense to me that bringing more people in would help these issues.
His plan was lower overall immigration by half, but double economic immigration. I thought that was sensible. More workers to help with a shortage, without the rapid population growth.
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Originally Posted by originalhypa
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That there is an Uncle Tom.
Like the Mexicans who support Trump "I'm already here, so let's build the wall!".
It's not what they said, however it's the fact that the changes that the PPC proposed were leap years beyond what a 4 year gov't is capable of doing in Canada, in 2019.
I liked what they were saying. It made sense to me. That said, I'm a white male born in Canada, so maybe my views are different than those of a native, immigrant, or visible minority. I wanted the changes based on my own selfish desires, and the same can be said for everyone else. Exactly as you said, as time comes the immigration conversation will become tougher to talk about. As our country becomes far more diverse than it already is. But it's already hard to talk about considering that 1/4 of our population is made up of immigrants, many of which have been here for 10+ years. It was clear to me early that shit wasn't going to fly. That's why a PPC vote was a wasted vote, or even worse, a vote taken away from the Tories.
Plus, you never go against climate change. Whether or not it's real and/or manmade, it's a hot topic right now. To outright deny it exists makes one sound like a neanderthal. This isn't the US with it's large population of low IQ inhabitants. As dumb as some of them are, the vast majority of Canadians are too smart to fall for that garbage.
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Yeah, the stance on climate change issue didn't help his party. Same with his insistence to repeal the multicultural act. Those two were easy pickings for the media. And the latter no doubt attracted some racist elements. Even if that wasn't the intention. They're difficult things to talk about. A lot of fine lines that could easily be blurred.