• Swordgeek@lemmy.ca
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      2 months ago

      “The facts” are that lay-citizens who have no meaningful way to assess the consequences of immigration levels have ‘feelings’ about it.

      That’s it.

      Ignoring the fact that polls like this are usually pre-biased towards the desired result, only 9% of the survey responsers said they didn’t know whether immigrstuon levels are too high. In reality, I’d be surprised if as many as 9% had enough knowledge to provide an informed answer.

      It’s worth asking why people feel this way though, and the answer is likely to be listening to the anti-immigration narrative from the Conservatives and Postmedia.

      Consider the opening paragraph:

      The Trudeau Liberals have broken Canada immigration system and with it, public support for that system.

      This is NOT a reasoned discussion about immigration levels, it’s just another open attack on Trudeau and the Liberal party.