Immigration Levels: Immigrant Groups

Canadian Politics Dept: This and the increased prominence of new Canadians as candidates were cheerful and encouraging reminders of the changing face of Canadian politics, and also of Canadians general openness to immigration, according to The Star. Support is particularly strong among more educated Canadians, the young, the fully employed and men and if the Ontario election campaign reflected anything about the politics of immigration in this country, it was the generally positive role that it plays. Most notably, the opposition issue of supposedly unfair benefits to foreign workers was a spectacular flop because the public holds a fairly positive view of immigrants. Canadians support for immigration has been consistently high over the past 15 to 20 years when immigration levels have also been high. In 2010, support for immigration was at its highest since 1957, according to the findings of my recent study, published by the Institute for Research on Public Policy IRPP . The study shows that majority Canadian support for high levels of immigration, at 58 per cent, has been remarkably stable over time and relatively unaffected by recessions, the threat of terrorism and negative reports on specific immigrant groups. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.