• 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.