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: But immigration lawyer Stephen Meurrens said the Liberals appear to be mostly tinkering, leaving intact key changes the Conservatives made, according to Hamilton Spectator. Those include caps on certain applications, the introduction of the safe-country system, and centralizing power in the hands of the immigration minister. "They aren't substantially undoing anything the Conservatives introduced," Meurrens said. "But it will look like a very different immigration system because it will probably have a very different tone." Meurrens said the Conservatives have found themselves warring with organizations such as the Canadian Bar Association and refugee groups over immigration policy, a fight the Liberals would likely try to resolve. Among other things, the Conservatives put economic migrants at the heart of their policy, something Trudeau pledged to change. "A Liberal government will make family reunification at the core of its immigration policy," he said in Brampton, Ont. "Making it easier for families to be together here in Canada makes more than just economic sense: When Canadians have added supports like family involvement in child care, it help drives productive and economic growth." In previous decades, millions of immigrants loyally voted Liberal, but the Conservative government under Stephen Harper has made steady inroads among those voters even as it overhauled the system that brought them to Canada in the first place. Trudeau also pledged to repeal a law allowing the minister to strip dual citizens of their Canadian citizenship if convicted of certain crimes — a law that has angered members of the ethnic community as well as civil-liberties groups. MIREMS, a company that monitors ethnic media, said response to the Syrian refugee crisis has been mixed, with some saying that taking in refugees demonstrates Canadian compassion and others arguing the crisis is not Canada responsibility. The Liberals would also expand Canada intake of Syrian and Iraqi refugees to 25,000 immediately, while pouring about $200 million into the refugee process. "All things being equal, a more generous immigration policy will appeal to the ethnic vote," said Morton Weinfeld, a sociology professor at McGill University. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.