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Should the government enact a stricter immigration policy?

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Response rates from 1.6m Canada voters.

61%
Yes
39%
No
48%
Yes
31%
No
4%
Yes, and regularly review recent immigrants to ensure they have become productive citizens
4%
No, and make the process easier for refugees
4%
Yes, but make the process easier for skilled workers
3%
No, the current policy is sufficient
3%
Yes, strictly screen immigrants for criminal backgrounds
1%
No, accept anyone who's not a violent criminal
1%
Yes, we currently have too many immigrants

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 @9PXSBSYfrom Ontario  answered…6mos6MO

Yes, and close immigration for as long as needed until housing becomes affordable. Immigrants are taking up all the jobs that canadian born citizens should have and we currently have too many immigrants.

 @9MH9FG6from Alberta  answered…7mos7MO

Yes. There’s simply too many people. Limiting the growth of our population will save our environment.

 @9RBYRBTfrom New Brunswick  answered…5mos5MO

Yes, but not do dissuade immigrants. Corporations are using them as an anti-labor tactic, and exploiting their vulnerability to undercut wages and benefits. This is to the detriment of immigrants as well.

 @8VNVRVCfrom British Columbia  answered…3yrs3Y

Temporary reduce immigration to allow housing stock to increase

 @8QR8QNXfrom Alberta  answered…4yrs4Y

yes don't let any immigrants in at all and let our country be full of real canadians.

 @8CTWWJ8from Alberta  answered…4yrs4Y

No, make the process easier for skilled workers and refugees, but not accept violent criminals.

 @8P9YHMHfrom Alberta  answered…4yrs4Y

Yes, because the more people or immigrants the prime minister brings in the more people would vote for him.

 @8HYR47Yfrom Ontario  answered…4yrs4Y

More to how many refugees we let in the country, if we can’t solve the homeless crisis and people in poverty and make life better for those people who live in our country. Why should I pay taxes to house, clothed and feed refugees when we can’t even help our own citizens in need a

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 @ISIDEWITH submitted…3wks3W

Mexican Shuts Down 2 Migrant Caravans After Trump Threat

Mexican immigration authorities have broken up two small migrant caravans headed to the U.S. border, activists said Saturday.Some migrants were bused to cities in southern Mexico, and others were offered transit papers.The action comes a week after U.S. President-elect Donald Trump threatened to slap 25% tariffs on Mexican products unless the country does more to stem the flow of migrants to the U.S. border.On Wednesday, Trump wrote that Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum had agreed to stop unauthorized migration across the border into the United States. Sheinbaum wrote on her social media accounts the same day that “migrants and caravans are taken care of before they reach the border.”Migrant rights activist Luis García Villagrán said the breaking-up of the two caravans appeared to be part of “an agreement between the president of Mexico and the president of the United States.”The first of the caravans started out from the southern Mexico city of Tapachula, near the border with Guatemala, on Nov. 5, the day Trump was elected. At its height it had about 2,500 people. In almost four weeks of walking, it had gone about 270 miles (430 kilometers) to Tehuantepec in the state of Oaxaca.In Tehuantepec, Mexican immigration officials offered the tired migrants free bus rides to other cities in southern or central Mexico.“They took some of us to Acapulco, others to Morelia, and others from our group to Oaxaca city,” said Bárbara Rodríguez, an opposition supporter who left her native Venezuela after that country's contested presidential elections earlier this year.Rodríguez said by telephone she later caught a bus on her own to Mexico City.In a statement Saturday, the National Immigration Institute said the migrants voluntary accepted bus rides “to various areas where there is medical assistance and where their migratory status will be reviewed,” and said “upon accepting (the rides), they said they no longer wanted to face the risks along their way.”

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Should the government incentivize the construction of affordable housing?

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