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    Meinung: Politiker sind in letzter Zeit dazu übergegangen, Einwanderern die Schuld zu geben. Dies ist kein neuer Trend in Kanada


    Meinung: Politiker sind in letzter Zeit dazu übergegangen, Einwanderern die Schuld zu geben. Dies ist kein neuer Trend in Kanada

    https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-politicians-have-recently-taken-to-blaming-immigrants-this-isnt-a-new/

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    1. thendisnigh111349 on

      The thing that makes it particularly appalling from Marlaina is she had just spent a few years on her „Alberta is Calling“ campaign which made Alberta the fast-growing province in the country. Now she turns around and says all the people she invited in are the problem, not, you know, her awful, corrupt, authoritarian government.

      And, of course, the „wonderful“ people of rural AB will nod along and keep voting blue.

    2. Medea_From_Colchis on

      The ANDP would be wise to point out the hypocrisy and flip-flopping of Danielle Smith and the UCP on immigration. The contrast in messaging is stark. The party went from putting out ads saying „Alberta’s calling“ and making plans with the federal government to double the population of Alberta to saying immigrants are a problem. If they were a problem, why did they plan to bring in so many? What changed so dramatically and why didn’t they see it coming in their previous plans? Why didn’t they prepare the necessary infrastructure to support their plan for population growth? They can’t blame Trudeau because they were the ones who told him their desired numbers; the UCP put out a plan to get to ten million people largely through immigration. It feels like the ANDP let the UCP off the hook on this file because I haven’t heard any criticism about this coming out of their tent.

    3. 33rdDivision on

      >It would be a mistake, though, to assume that non-Anglo-Canadian immigrants were welcomed, even though they proved resilient farmers. Some immigration critics claimed that “foreigners” were threatening the Anglo-Canadian fabric of the country. Others openly questioned whether their integration into the larger society was desirable, let alone possible.

      >Nor did it matter that the number of central European settlers was dwarfed by those from Britain and the United States. They stood out because they were different – dressed differently, spoke differently, worshipped differently, even cooked differently (with garlic!) One newspaper likened the new immigrants to a “grand ‘round-up’ of European freaks and hoboes.”

      >Frank Oliver, the fiery Liberal MP for Edmonton, was more scathing. He accused Clifford Sifton, his predecessor as federal minister of the interior, of populating the West with “scum.” A Ukrainian, Oliver maintained, was “only a generation removed from a debased and brutalized serf.”

      >For many, a more selective, more restrictive immigration policy was urgently needed, especially because non-Anglo-Canadian immigrants were popularly associated with poverty, crime, ignorance and immorality.

      As in 1906 with Ukrainian-Canadians, so in 2026 with brown folks here. The same stereotypes, the same shibboleths, the same lies, almost word for word.

      I feel sorry for them, given what a subset of Canadians put them through online and in real life. Canadians with no historical memory, and no pattern recognition. Because the exact same thing was done to every community before them, from Arab-Canadians to Chinese-Canadians to Vietnamese-Canadians to Ukrainian-Canadians. And they were proven wrong every time. But instead of recognizing this, they just switch to the next target – and in this case it’s Indians because they’re a quiet lot who don’t fight back, but largely just sit there and take it.

      Eventually the hate train will move on to its next target. But it’s cold comfort for the Indians who came here believing Canada was a kind and warm-hearted country, only for some of us to tarnish that image in the most painful ways possible.

    4. Yodamort on

      >Indeed, Canadians need to realize that these new immigrants are not any different from immigrants a century ago. Like earlier waves of immigrants, they have come to Canada for a better life – if not for themselves, then for their children and their children’s children.

      >And if we’re going to build a better Canada, build a better tomorrow, then we need to do it together. Blaming immigrants is not the way forward.

      Excellent article. It is, however, another example of a historian telling us to learn from history that will no doubt be disregarded and go unheard. Without any pushback on the anti-immigration rhetoric – and this is a start, to be fair – the existing rhetoric, the exact same bundle of lies that pushed us down the path to anti-Chinese immigration discrimination in the 1920s and so on and so forth, will continue unabated. Hopefully, the new NDP is able to shift the tide in that regard.

    5. Effective-Clue6205 on

      That is something I really appreciate from the PQ. They never blame or target immigrants, they always talk about immigration policy and management.

      It’s sad that the Liberals are an horrible government in managing immigration, destroying the whole system who once made us proud. I appreciate that the PQ always have constructive ideas on how to fix the system, because if we don’t do it, people will mix immigrants and system, and it will be bad.

      Hopefully the Liberals don’t break it more than it is currently. We really need a government that want to take care of immigrants correctly, not like the Liberals did in the last 10 years that lead to the current crisis.

    6. Dusk_Soldier on

      This article comes across as a not so subtle attempt to manufacture consent for another ramp up in immigration levels.

      Their are a lot of people in this country similar to this author that are going to need to come to grips with the fact they’ve overplayed the race card. People don’t care about being called racist anymore. They’ll wear the slur like a badge of honour.

    7. HengeWalk on

      Line not go up? Rampant corruption and corporate over reach? Banks and developers turning housing into a game of monopoly? Climate crisis? Cuts to education and infrastructure?

      Easy fix.

      Blame immigrants. And if that fails, blame transwomen and indigenous people for being uppity abour rights and existing or something.
      /s

    8. SomeDumRedditor on

      Coming from the Globe, I’m sorry but this is consent manufacturing for expanding immigration rates not an actual attempt at historical perspective on racist attitudes.

      It is not acceptable to use racist tropes/stereotypes to blame foreigners for things, or to be bigoted and unwelcoming because an immigrant (any person) isn’t just like you.

      The Indian diaspora is targeted because of (ongoing) choices by Government that opened a wedge for racists to hang their hate on legitimate issues.

      Many “established” Indian immigrants have a pretty dour view of much of the labour we’ve imported the past decade. When it comes to so-called “cultural issues,” it is both the fault of Government, in failing to create and apply a coherent and effective integration/naturalization program for all, and that of the diaspora in choosing to enable insularity.

      But set any particular nation/ethnicity aside completely and there is still a cogent reason for immigration pushback – it *is* “different this time.”

      Immigration has and is being used to openly weaken Canadian labour power, suppress wages and subsidize provincial austerity. That is the primary economic motivator for Government’s continued support of our immigration programs as-is, and for the lax attitude towards system-gaming and overstays.

      That is a fundamental shift in the “nuts and bolts” of immigration that does not line up with previous periods of “anti-immigrant sentiment.” None of that excuses or permits racism, bigotry or exclusion.

      The Globe and Mail is just laying the groundwork to get back to the Trudeau-era status quo of “questioning immigration policy makes you suspect-racist.” Especially in the shadow of a) Carney’s clear lack of interest in reform and b) the simple reality that (with respect to the particular diaspora under discussion) part of Modi’s price for a comprehensive trade deal is going to be expanded work/study/visa permits. 

      (Modi needs the population relief as a practical matter and India’s ongoing meddling (see RCMP disclosure) gets easier long-term with a growing, weakly-integrated, diaspora here.)

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