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Project Fear and Daily Telegraph

European Union: The character of these confrontations was captured brilliantly by the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph, according to Toronto Star. The entire debate, it declared, had become Project Fear, that is of voters being pulled one way because they feared too many immigrants would come into their country, or of being tugged the other way because they feared that leaving the EU would damage their nation economy and threaten their jobs. By Richard Gwyn Columnist Tues., June 21, 2016 During the prolonged referendum campaign that on Thursday will at last decide whether Britons will Leave the European Union or will Remain a member of that institution, the struggle between these two sides has steadily got ever louder and ever nastier. As one example of such excess, leave advocates have warned if Britain stays in the EU it will have take in a million or more Turks because it would have to continue obeying the EU rules for freedom of movement among all its member states. According to Chancellor George Osborne, a defeat of those who wanted to remain would force the government to slash spending and raise taxes, hitting pensioners the hardest. The opposite excess was as extravagant. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.