From the River to the Earth's Bounds

 

The tide is turning against high immigration levels, in Canada and in the rest of the developed world. Back in 2019, I recall a PPC candidate suggesting at a local public meeting that the housing shortage could be addressed at least in part by lowering immigration levels. She faced immediate catcalls, demanding she get off the stage if she had such opinions.

Now that opinion is shared by a majority. According to Nanos Research, a year ago, 61 percent of Canadians were in favour of the current high immigration levels. But by last December, 61 percent felt they should be reduced. Such a rapid turnaround in public opinion is almost unprecedented.

Part of the general snapback against the left agenda; which is now visible, and proceeding apace.

I suspect it is more than the housing shortage. We already had a housing crisis in 2019. Instead, people are waking up to the fact that people from different cultures are not just about colourful dances and new ethnic restaurants, but that they can actually have fundamentally different basic values, which can be antithetical to Canadian values, and cause civil conflict.

I suspect the many “From the River to the Sea” protests, in Canada and elsewhere, since October 7, have played a large part in this turnaround. It has now also become permissible to point out other problems, like immigrant students improperly exploiting food banks.

It is unfortunate if the focus remains on immigration per se. Immigration itself is not the problem. The problem is multiculturalism. It is madness to bring in large groups of people from radically different cultures without an aggressive program of assimilation and equal treatment.