Canadian Values: Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric and Email Inbox

canadian values: For days my email inbox was flooded with angry, anti-immigrant rhetoric from readers who believe Leitch, who is seeking the federal Conservative leadership, is on the right path with her call for tighter screening to weed out potential newcomers and refugees found to hold anti-Canadian values, according to Toronto Star. The emails arrived at the same time as the release of a new poll by the Angus Reid Institute conducted for the CBC that found 68 per cent of those surveyed want to see minorities doing more to fit in to mainstream society. Bob Hepburn writes his inbox was flooded with "angry, anti-immigrant rhetoric from readers," after writing about Conservite MP Kellie Leitch desire to screen immigrants for "Canadian values." By Bob Hepburn Politics Thu., Oct. 6, 2016 I was saddened and appalled when the emails from readers began to pour in after I wrote last week about how it would be wrong to dismiss Kellie Leitch plan to screen potential immigrants as silly or unpopular. The survey also suggested more Canadians actually take a tougher line than Americans when it comes to believing that minority groups should assimilate or try to change once they arrive in their new country. Article Continued Below Taken together with polls earlier this year that indicate nearly half of Canadians opposed Ottawa plan to accept 25,000 Syrian refugees, the latest poll and the emails to me make it clear that Canada is not as warm to and accepting of immigrants as many would like to believe. Worse, that view seems to have hardened over the last two decades, according to the pollsters. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.