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Is this not happening everywhere?
Sure, but not to the same degree. I don't know much about Canadian politics but for a time my social media was filled with post after post bashing Trudeau and favoring more far-right politicians just over immigration policy. It was enough to turn me off of your country as a whole, if immigrants are so hated there.
Sounds like propaganda got to you. Maybe don't make big life decisions if you "don't know much" about a topic? Educating yourself is free, just hard to do if your source of education is "post after post".
The funny thing about immigration is that it turns out I don't need to research every single 'might be good, might be bad' country out there. I only needed to find a single country that had lenient immigration laws and would be accepting of me. Australia was that country for me, though it has it's own issues as all countries do. Personally, I don't think I should need to have some degree in foreign politics to be able to decide which countries would/wouldn't be welcoming to me. If anything, if Canada has some massive propaganda problem where all searchable metrics (58% Trudeau disapproval ratings, 58% think too much immigration, 41% anxious immigrant rights get too much attention), then perhaps "too much propaganda" is yet another reason to avoid Canada.
Thatโs because Trudeau is wildly unpopular. So unpopular he was finally asked to resign (and agreed to do so) by his own party.
And furthermore if you want to understand the reasons behind anti-immigrant sentiment in Canada you should study our housing policies and issues. Canada is in the midst of a housing crisis which I believe is the main contributor to anti-immigrant sentiment.
Now you might say (and would be fair to do so) that immigrants are not to blame for bad housing policy. That is true, however itโs entirely fair for Trudeau to receive his share of the blame for the housing crisis, especially given his many promises to address the issue.
And if youโre wondering about Australia: its housing crisis is as bad or worse than Canadaโs. Anti-immigration sentiment and far-right politics is even more prevalent there.
Australia hates immigrants too so have fun with that
I'm not sure why you're talking if you already have all the answers buddy.
They got their impression of Canada from reddit
All our media is controlled by right wing groups (edit: excl. CBC) I wouldn't take that as a representation of the overall sentiment of the population.
We are looking at an election soon however so hesitation makes sense.
I wasn't reading news articles so much as I as reading Reddit comments (back when I still used Reddit), which is certainly still not a completely comprehensive read of the whole Canadian population, but it's about as close as I can get without being in Canada myself. To be honest though, having most of the media controlled by right wing groups is another concern, though I do hope your elections go well
I think it's important to remember immigration isn't just some lever you can turn on and off: "oh we're having issues with quality of life so let's stop letting immigrants in," "oh but we want highly educated people like doctors so lets let them in." Prospective immigrants will remember at best the wishy-washy stance on whether or not immigrants should be let in, at worst the outright xenophobic sentiment they had heard. This especially goes for people in highly educated professions like doctors, who are desirable immigrants in any countries, and thus have options to pick and choose where they want to go.
I know when my parents (who are both doctors) started looking into investing a bit in other countries, Canada wasn't even considered, they went straight to investing in Europe. When I told them I was looking into foreign colleges, they suggested schools in New Zealand, in Germany, in Sweden.. they didn't once recommend Canada. Well, this is just anecdotal evidence, and I'm sure many many American doctors will flee to Canada. But I wouldn't assume just because doctors are leaving the US necessarily means they're going to Canada
/r/Canada was taken over by right wing groups too. The rest of us migrated to /r/onguardforthee (before coming here).
Onguardforthee is trash. Echo chamber.
No more than /r/canada
At least a few years ago. Who knows how they've both devolved since.
Yea there aren't really any good canadian subreddits