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Originally Posted by curves2000
In my cultural community, the overwhelming love the older generation has for the PM and party that brought in a lot of them into Canada in the 60's and 70's is shocking. They have Pierre Trudeau on a different level in terms of higher standard, almost to the point where it's strange to the younger generation. The level of dislike for his son is totally opposite. I do think there is some level of loyalty and admiration to the party and PM that does bring in you in, no matter who the party was.
The Harper government worked very very hard to court immigrant votes and support, the classic right hand man Jason Kenney was known as attend an insane amount of cultural events to drum up support. It was a key reason Harper won multiple elections and it was strange how they blew it up in 2015 with stupid talk about barbaric cultural practices tip line. A lot of wasted work.
I can tell you in my wide ranging circle of immigrant cultural backgrounds, a lot of people didn't have a clue about Canadian politics but they knew Kenney and voted for him and the Conservatives federally and provincially specially cause he was a regular at their church, mosque, synagogue, cultural center and more.
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I grew up in an immigrant family. Both my parents were immigrants with my mom coming to Canada in the 50's and my dad in the 70's. We grew up with a lot of other immigrants from the same place, and my mom's family settled in a town with hundreds of other first or second generation immigrants from the same place. They're all 100% conservative voters who hated Pierre Trudeau with every fiber of their being and have been conservative voters their whole lives. Literally many hundreds of them.
My anecdotal situation tells me absolutely nothing about the national immigrant landscape though. You need data for that. A personal story is quaint, but it's not supportive of any argument that immigrants vote in a particular way. They're not a monolith