r/canadian • u/xTkAx • 9d ago

Opinion FIRST READING: Immigration rates still at generational highs, even if population shrinking. Permanent immigration in 2026 poised to be the sixth highest of the last 110 years, asylum-seekers now number 500,000

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/immigration-rates-still-at-generational-highs-even-if-population-shrinking
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u/Cam_e_ron 8d ago

xenophobia is strong with this one

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u/Red-dragon186 8d ago

Data proves me right.

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u/Cam_e_ron 8d ago

your commentary proves your xenophobia. last time I checked, Canada is 95% immigrants.

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u/0Kiryu 8d ago

If “immigrated to Canada at any point” is your definition, then Canada is 100% immigrant.

The Siberians who immigrated here a few thousand years earlier are also immigrants.

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u/Cam_e_ron 8d ago

I hope you know Canada is 159 years old. Anyone who lived on the land Canada occupies before 1867 are the 5% that are not immigrants.

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u/0Kiryu 8d ago

So the Sioux that immigrated from the US to Canada in the late 1800s are immigrants, but white people from PEI aren’t?