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Originally Posted by pgsieve
Without going into how I feel about the whole thing, I thought I'd share an interesting story for me today. I work for a post-secondary where I travel to talk to students about studying at my school in Canada. I'm currently in the Middle East and the Canadian election and specifically the niqab is all over all the local media here. For the first time in five years I had multiple students (and I've never heard this before) say to me.. "Not interested in Canada.. I am obviously not welcome" ... I am still taken back by this. I've recruited on almost every continent and I have never heard a student and I have never heard anything like this. As much as people say it is a non-issue, it was clear to me today that it has global implications
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I've certainly seen sentiments change towards Canada over the last ten years and it has become more negative than before.
While it's easy to dismiss perception abroad, it is not only people outside Canadian borders who are being made to feel marginalised by the conservative position. People who say "we don't need them anyways" are missing the bigger picture.