Two-thirds (67 percent) of immigrants—especially those who have lived in Canada for more than six years—support tougher regulations for international students
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according to an April study by the University of Toronto’s School of Cities, immigrant voters in the GTA are now increasingly aligning with right-leaning positions.
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Support (for stricter immigration policies) is even higher among South Asian immigrants, rising to 77 percent, according to the results of the OMNI/Léger survey. Another 2024 Léger poll found high anti-immigrant sentiment in that community: 50 percent of surveyed South Asian immigrants believe that the government plan at the time would “admit too many immigrants to Canada.” … the same poll suggested that the longer a South Asian immigrant lives in Canada, the more likely they are to support the Conservative Party, which typically tends to favour stricter immigration policies.
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A fall 2024 study by Environics Institute also reports that, over the past year, an increasing proportion of racialized Canadians agree that too many immigrants are “not adopting Canadian values.”
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UnluckyRandomGuy on
Flood the country with people who don’t integrate into Canadian society and the ones who came here and embraced Canada don’t like them, who knew!
It really is amazing talking to older Indian-Canadians who have embraced being Canadian and then talking to those who came here in the last couple years, 90% of them have 0 desire to ever be Canadian, they want to be in India just with the benefits of the Canadian government and that is truly scary when we start to look at things like driving habits in India, rape and sexual assault statistics, hygiene, disregard for the environment through things like dumping trash wherever they please and disrupting wildlife.
red3416 on
Immigrants who worked hard to integrate do not like newcomers with no civic sense. Gives them a bad name. They’ve also been here long enough to remember what Canada was like before the whole International Student thing.
aldur1 on
Garbage article that feeds into the worse stereotypes of academics. Why bother interviewing people if you already have the conclusion made up in your mind.
>“You have to look out for yourself because no one else will,” Jessie told Elcioglu. In his conversation with the sociologist, he argued that immigrants—once settled—ought to vote in their self-interest.
>Elcioglu believes that voting conservative becomes a way for some second-generation immigrants to reject the perception that they are still outsiders. “By distancing themselves from newer, poorer, or more stigmatized immigrants, they are attempting to claim a fuller version of Canadian belonging,” she says. In a 2025 paper published in the journal *Ethnic and Racial Studies*, Elcioglu argues that electoral behaviour is a mechanism for this faction to “edge closer to privilege.” She writes, “These efforts can be characterized as ‘racial strategies’ or how white-adjacent groups try to **‘achieve’ whiteness** in a society that deems them tolerated citizens at best and failed or non-citizens at worst.”
I don’t see how one would conclude that unless the interview directly asked the interviewee if they were motivated by proximity to whiteness.
>Satwinder Bains, director of the South Asian Studies Institute at the University of the Fraser Valley, believes that the Conservative Party’s active outreach strategy directed at racialized immigrants may have proven to be successful. “The only way forward [for some immigrants] is through not looking back,” she says. “It is seen as a way to get closer to **power and privilege**, which would normally take whole generations to achieve—with the false promise of equal power sharing by immigrants and racialized groups.”
It’s called opportunity and social mobility. It’s not that complex.
Deadly-afterthoughts on
Immigrants aren’t monolith, Some immigrants don’t like their countrymen, may be they don’t like the culture they were raised in, the religion, or whatever. In a sense they are prejudiced against their own.
Fifty-Mission-Cap_ on
Painting all newcomers with the same brush is a misguided effort – people are people and everyone has their own belief system, politics and priorities/needs. Newcomers have no obligation to act in solidarity with all other newcomers, particularly when they may have no cultural, religious or racial similarities.
I do feel bad for many of my South Asian friends. The behaviour of many new arrivals is painting them in a negative light by virtue of nothing more than their skin colour. Who *wouldn’t* be frustrated with that? I totally get it.
I honestly don’t know the answer other than ensuring Canada welcomes a diverse range of newcomers and cap arrivals from any one country, similar to the United States (to be clear, they have plenty of other issues with their immigration system but diversity of originating country isn’t one of them).
There’s also the economic aspect; newcomers are also affected by the housing crisis. Anyone with critical thinking skills can conclude that having one of the highest immigration rates in the world under Trudeau, coupled with the lowest per capita housing in the G7, was a recipe for disaster.
Ultimately, I’d even consider it to be discriminatory to assume that people feel differently about these issues on the basis of their skin colour. Certainly one can feel compassion for others fleeing danger, particularly when they’ve had a similar story of their own, but self-interest is always chief among priorities.
Godzilla52 on
The issue was almost entirely the massive post-COVID TFW/NPR expansion. Tripling the number of NPRS in around a year and a half basically eroded a lot of public trust for the immigration system and was done for short sighted/overly cynical reasons. (Trudeau government trying to stimulate on-paper growth to prevent a recession in the lead- to 2025)
Combine that with the fact that the previous government opted to do this during a cost of living crisis and that the current government is still in the process of cleaning up the mess and it makes sense why the bad taste still hasn’t abated.
I generally supported the higher permanent resident targets in 2021, but I think the electorate is so jaded about it at this point that the next decade or so of immigration policy will just be Ottawa rehabilitating the immigration system’s reputation while addressing NPR/TFW exploitation.
ozztotheizzo on
As an Immigrant now Citizen who has been here for more than 10 years I can say that most of my peers‘ worst nightmare is seeing Canada turned into what we tried to get away from. Most of us strongly believe in per country caps to make sure that there is diversity and tougher restrictions to increase the quality of candidates.
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Selected extracts from the article:
Two-thirds (67 percent) of immigrants—especially those who have lived in Canada for more than six years—support tougher regulations for international students
…
according to an April study by the University of Toronto’s School of Cities, immigrant voters in the GTA are now increasingly aligning with right-leaning positions.
….
Support (for stricter immigration policies) is even higher among South Asian immigrants, rising to 77 percent, according to the results of the OMNI/Léger survey. Another 2024 Léger poll found high anti-immigrant sentiment in that community: 50 percent of surveyed South Asian immigrants believe that the government plan at the time would “admit too many immigrants to Canada.” … the same poll suggested that the longer a South Asian immigrant lives in Canada, the more likely they are to support the Conservative Party, which typically tends to favour stricter immigration policies.
….
A fall 2024 study by Environics Institute also reports that, over the past year, an increasing proportion of racialized Canadians agree that too many immigrants are “not adopting Canadian values.”
—
Flood the country with people who don’t integrate into Canadian society and the ones who came here and embraced Canada don’t like them, who knew!
It really is amazing talking to older Indian-Canadians who have embraced being Canadian and then talking to those who came here in the last couple years, 90% of them have 0 desire to ever be Canadian, they want to be in India just with the benefits of the Canadian government and that is truly scary when we start to look at things like driving habits in India, rape and sexual assault statistics, hygiene, disregard for the environment through things like dumping trash wherever they please and disrupting wildlife.
Immigrants who worked hard to integrate do not like newcomers with no civic sense. Gives them a bad name. They’ve also been here long enough to remember what Canada was like before the whole International Student thing.
Garbage article that feeds into the worse stereotypes of academics. Why bother interviewing people if you already have the conclusion made up in your mind.
>“You have to look out for yourself because no one else will,” Jessie told Elcioglu. In his conversation with the sociologist, he argued that immigrants—once settled—ought to vote in their self-interest.
>Elcioglu believes that voting conservative becomes a way for some second-generation immigrants to reject the perception that they are still outsiders. “By distancing themselves from newer, poorer, or more stigmatized immigrants, they are attempting to claim a fuller version of Canadian belonging,” she says. In a 2025 paper published in the journal *Ethnic and Racial Studies*, Elcioglu argues that electoral behaviour is a mechanism for this faction to “edge closer to privilege.” She writes, “These efforts can be characterized as ‘racial strategies’ or how white-adjacent groups try to **‘achieve’ whiteness** in a society that deems them tolerated citizens at best and failed or non-citizens at worst.”
I don’t see how one would conclude that unless the interview directly asked the interviewee if they were motivated by proximity to whiteness.
>Satwinder Bains, director of the South Asian Studies Institute at the University of the Fraser Valley, believes that the Conservative Party’s active outreach strategy directed at racialized immigrants may have proven to be successful. “The only way forward [for some immigrants] is through not looking back,” she says. “It is seen as a way to get closer to **power and privilege**, which would normally take whole generations to achieve—with the false promise of equal power sharing by immigrants and racialized groups.”
It’s called opportunity and social mobility. It’s not that complex.
Immigrants aren’t monolith, Some immigrants don’t like their countrymen, may be they don’t like the culture they were raised in, the religion, or whatever. In a sense they are prejudiced against their own.
Painting all newcomers with the same brush is a misguided effort – people are people and everyone has their own belief system, politics and priorities/needs. Newcomers have no obligation to act in solidarity with all other newcomers, particularly when they may have no cultural, religious or racial similarities.
I do feel bad for many of my South Asian friends. The behaviour of many new arrivals is painting them in a negative light by virtue of nothing more than their skin colour. Who *wouldn’t* be frustrated with that? I totally get it.
I honestly don’t know the answer other than ensuring Canada welcomes a diverse range of newcomers and cap arrivals from any one country, similar to the United States (to be clear, they have plenty of other issues with their immigration system but diversity of originating country isn’t one of them).
There’s also the economic aspect; newcomers are also affected by the housing crisis. Anyone with critical thinking skills can conclude that having one of the highest immigration rates in the world under Trudeau, coupled with the lowest per capita housing in the G7, was a recipe for disaster.
Ultimately, I’d even consider it to be discriminatory to assume that people feel differently about these issues on the basis of their skin colour. Certainly one can feel compassion for others fleeing danger, particularly when they’ve had a similar story of their own, but self-interest is always chief among priorities.
The issue was almost entirely the massive post-COVID TFW/NPR expansion. Tripling the number of NPRS in around a year and a half basically eroded a lot of public trust for the immigration system and was done for short sighted/overly cynical reasons. (Trudeau government trying to stimulate on-paper growth to prevent a recession in the lead- to 2025)
Combine that with the fact that the previous government opted to do this during a cost of living crisis and that the current government is still in the process of cleaning up the mess and it makes sense why the bad taste still hasn’t abated.
I generally supported the higher permanent resident targets in 2021, but I think the electorate is so jaded about it at this point that the next decade or so of immigration policy will just be Ottawa rehabilitating the immigration system’s reputation while addressing NPR/TFW exploitation.
As an Immigrant now Citizen who has been here for more than 10 years I can say that most of my peers‘ worst nightmare is seeing Canada turned into what we tried to get away from. Most of us strongly believe in per country caps to make sure that there is diversity and tougher restrictions to increase the quality of candidates.