Opinion: Sometimes it’s the dog that doesn’t bark. It’s the things that don’t happen (as in the Sherlock Holmes story) that speak volumes.
. We’re already accepting record numbers of newcomers, but the government wants to crank that up even further. The target for next year is 465,000; for 2025 it’s a flat half million.
Certainly, no significant political players in English Canada raised concerns, let alone an alarm. Large-scale immigration is massively popular. All three major national parties support ambitious targets and see no political gains to be made by playing the anti-immigrant card. But it’s hard to overstate how unusual Canada is in this regard. Almost everywhere else, immigration is a highly charged and divisive issue. Take, for example, Britain. Just this week, a centre for processing migrants was firebombed. And the country’s home secretary, Suella Braverman, warned the influx of people landing illegally on the south coast amounts to an “invasion.
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