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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
The topic is so loaded with people’s personal baggage that it’s difficult to have a straight coversation. Nobody seems to know what Canada is or isn’t able to do, how many expiring visas is a typical number, how many temporary residents there are or were or how easy or difficult it is to live without status.
Instead it’s talk of criminals hiding out in Canada, roaming the streets chanting “death to Canada” instead of going back to India (because obviously they’re all from there and that place sucks the worst), and the problem they cause by… not being able to hold a legal job, access free healthcare or government services, or otherwise be any kind of burden on society at all.
Sure makes them sound like a deeply nefarious bunch. And there will be hundreds of thousands more them! Because… well, we don’t know exactly, but that sounds like a lot and that’s scary.
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Yeah, so hard that people like you basically don’t even try. Because bringing up immigration is coded as conservative. And if your whole online persona is built around being anti-conservative, you’ll just avoid the subject altogether and make dark implications about anyone who does.
But lots of non-conservative adults in the room* are talking about the problems generated by the unprecedented ramping up of immigration in the face of experts warning of its negative consequences. I mean, even the government that carried out the policies has acknowledged that it blew up in their faces.
If you don’t want the CPC to get into power, you should be especially angry about how badly the Liberals have handled the immigration brief, as it’s looking like it will hand Poilievre a majority. Though I suppose you could just chalk that up to the idiocy of the average Canadian, as a lot of posters around here do.
* I get most of my information on the subject from the Globe and Mail - that notorious den of populist far-right misinformation. Where do you get your news on the subject from, Pepsi?