“The increased Liberal government targets are screened economic and family class immigrants. “The border crossers are not even counted into those immigration numbers,” she said in a phone interview. Shachi Kurl, executive director of the institute, explained that one reason behind the hardening of attitudes may be due to a false conflation of immigration levels with asylum-seeking border crossers. (The July 25 to 30 online poll of 1,500 adults has a 2.2 per cent margin of error, 19 times out of 20.) At the core of it, you really have to question this government’s approach.”Ī new poll released Tuesday by the Angus Reid Institute suggested support for restricting immigration is at a 40-year high among voters across the country, with 49 per cent saying there should be fewer immigrants let in. “Who would have thought I would say this, but the Conservatives actually did a better job on family reunification than the Liberals have. “If you really do the analysis of the parent and grandparents numbers, the Conservatives actually had more parent and grandparent reuniting under them than the Liberals,” Kwan said. Under the previous Tory government’s 5,000-application cap, more than 18,000 were admitted from backlogs. She said raising the yearly family reunification applications cap to 20,000 doesn’t actually mean increasing how many people are approved for entry but simply that more can apply. Kwan said that response was unacceptable and did not reflect Hussen’s own words about the economic, social and cultural importance of keeping families together, which should be based on need, not popularity. Hussen also said in an earlier speech at the event that his government’s research has found that “legitimate concerns about refugees and asylum seekers risks undermining the traditionally positive views that Canadians have had about immigration.” Ottawa raises cap on parent sponsorship, ends lottery system Immigration department aims to provide more reliable processing times Tories using ‘anti-immigrant sentiment to get into power,’ minister tells Surrey business audience But that is also dependent on the information that Canadians have on the exact needs in the community.”
“We have to always set numbers based on the support that we have from Canadians. “We can’t just go out there and decide on a random number of permanent residents. “Here’s the challenge that we have: as a government we can only set targets based on support from Canadians,” Hussen said in response to a question at a Surrey Board of Trade event Tuesday. Kwan was reacting to Hussen’s comments after he announced the country’s family reunification limit for parents and grandparents of newcomers already here would rise next year to 20,000 - which he said would double the current cap on new applications and quadruple the number before the Liberals took office.īut Hussen cautioned that his government remains challenged by public acceptance of immigration’s benefits. “But while the Conservatives’ policies targeted immigrants, for instance with Bill C-24 (Strengthening Canadian Citizenship Act) as second-class citizens, the Liberals’ fixes are just creating new problems.” “The Liberal government can say all these nice words and make themselves sound different from the Conservatives,” Kwan said in a phone interview. NDP immigration critic Jenny Kwan, MP for Vancouver East, criticized federal Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Ahmed Hussen for his remarks in Surrey that suggested government targets must be accountable to public opinion.
VANCOUVER-As federal Conservatives and Liberals continue to trade barbs over immigration and refugee issues this week, their New Democrat opponents are alleging that both parties’ approaches aren’t that different, despite the rhetoric.
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