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Canadians: His retort immediately drew ire on social media, as many people seemed confused about what the phrase actually meant, according to CBC. In his response to CBC News reporter Hannah Thibedeau question on Friday, Harper did not repeat the term — nor fully answer why he used it. The Tory leader asserted that the measures imposed by his government in 2012 to deny special health care to people whose claim for refugee status had been denied were supported by new immigrants and "old-stock" Canadians alike. The Conservative leader repeated his position that the government should not give special health-care benefits "better than received by ordinary Canadians to people who are clearly not refugees and have been judged as such." "I know that that is a position supported widely through the Canadian population, it supported by Canadians who are themselves immigrants and also supported by the rest of us, by Canadians who have been the descendants of immigrants for one or more generations." Old Stock Canadians' takes on a life of its own in post-#Globe Debate searches. #elxn42 @googlecanada Google Canada, which tracks online searches and makes some of the data public, said on Twitter that once the debate ended searches of "old-stock Canadians" skyrocketed. Harper is playing the politics of division" — a claim he repeated during a campaign stop in Montreal on Friday. Trudeau pounced on Harper use of the term during his post-debate scrum, telling reporters that "once again Mr. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.