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Weren't we just being inundated with right wing talking points about how the population of our country had risen too quickly and we had to severely curtail immigration? And now we do this?
So, one is to surmise that the problem was really that the population increase did not have the desirable... hue?
I don’t think it was a choice exactly. The news I was reading said the Canadian Supreme Court rejected the first generation limit as unconstitutional.
No source today, sorry. Brain is exhausted from documenting my Canadian ancestry in exhaustive detail all weekend.
The C-3 changes were in response to the 2023 Bjorkquist court decision that struck down the first-generation limit on citizenship by descent. The Government had to bring in legislative amendments or the Court would have just struck the limit down as a Charter violation.
It was Conservative Party of Canada Harper Government that enacted the limit in reaction to air lifts of Canadians in Lebanon, calling them ‘Canadians of convenience.’
The CPC tried to amend the Bill C-3 to require a 1095 day presence in a 5 year period in order to past citizenship down to future generations, basically making it like the requirement for naturalization. Instead the law has a lifetime 1095 day presence to pass down citizenship to children born after December 15, 2025.
Oh I'm not at all against this. I am absolutely for it. What I'm against is the trumpist-smelling anti-immigration rhetoric of the right and the centre.
It’s a concern the way the CPC MPs confabulated citizenship by descent with immigration during the committee hearings on the Bill.
But that has nothing to do with this as it was a court decision.
Do you think it has something to do with this, or do you assume its racism?
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https://themeasureofaplan.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/2024-mortgage-share-of-income.png
You and I have talked about this exact topic before. You seemed to think my arguments about the financialization of housing were ... gaslighting.
Right wingers genuinely openly say “we don’t mind Ukrainian refugees and European immigrants.”
It’s not an open secret because it really isn’t a secret at all. They didn’t want more brown people in the country.
My refugee neighbors English wasn't great. Apparently I was one of the few Canadians they regularly talked to.
They said a few times people were like "you're Ukrainian? The troublemakers who started the war?"
It was thier perception, based on that, that the general consensus was that Canadians thought they were responsible for the war, and everyone else was just too polite to say it.
So... no... tons of fucking idiot right wingers are not ok with Ukrainian refugees either. Apparently.
Yep. The right wing isn't concerned about that kind of population growth. Canada was was still over 95% white when the grandparents of most people probably applying for citizenship via this pathway were born.
Good things its not racist to import a million and a half UN defined modern wage slaves to cram into Brampton basements during a housing crisis, otherwise left leaning parties would look pretty racist right now.
Which left leaning parties? Liberals?
Well no, the NDP too.
https://www.ndp.ca/news/ndp-critic-immigration-calls-out-conservative-leader-harmful-policies
They were really worried about "small business", the LMIA scams, the Tim Hortons and Burger Kings workers living 20 to a basement due to the massive housing shortage.