Poll finds fewer Canadians viewing immigration positively, but not in B.C.
[What you have to focus on is the fact that few Canadians want immigration increased (just 17 per cent) but that is just what the Trudeau government, bent, as it is, on replacing the European founding/settler people of this country in pursuit of “diversity’ is doing.]
Ian Holliday CTVNewsVancouver.ca Reporter Contact Updated Oct. 20, 2023 3:07 p.m. PDT Published Oct. 20, 2023 2:33 p.m. PDT
While Canadians as a whole are becoming less likely to see immigration as a net positive for their country, British Columbians don’t seem to be following that trend, according to a new poll.
The data released by Research Co. Friday(opens in a new tab) finds 45 per cent of Canadians say immigration is having a mostly positive effect on the country, a decrease of nine percentage points since Research Co. last asked the question in February 2022.
At the same time, 38 per cent now say immigration has a mostly negative impact, an increase of 12 points. The rest (17 per cent, down two points) are unsure.
In B.C., however, the change since February 2022 is much less dramatic. At that time, 51 per cent of B.C. residents surveyed said immigration had a net positive impact on the country. Today, the percentage is unchanged.
The percentage of British Columbians saying immigration is a net negative has gone up, but by a much smaller amount than the national figure: 31 per cent said negative in 2022, and 35 per cent do so now.
Correspondingly, the percentage of B.C. respondents saying they’re unsure how to answer the question has decreased from 18 per cent to 14 per cent.
FEW WOULD INCREASE IMMIGRATION
Perhaps surprisingly, given their belief that immigrants have a mostly positive effect on the country, most B.C. respondents would like to see Canada either maintain or reduce the number of immigrants it welcomes each year, rather than increasing it.
Just 14 per cent of British Columbians surveyed say Canada should increase the number of legal immigrants allowed to relocate here. Nationally, that number is 17 per cent.
On this question, there’s been considerable change both in B.C. and nationally since Research Co. last asked.
Today, 38 per cent in B.C. say the number of immigrants should remain the same and 41 per cent say it should decrease. Nationally, those figures are 37 and 39 per cent, respectively.
In February 2022, 41 per cent of British Columbians chose “stay the same” and 29 per cent chose “decrease.”
This shift essentially mirrors the national trend. In February 2022, 39 per cent nationally wanted the immigration levels to remain the same, and 25 per cent wanted them to decrease.
Research Co. says it conducted its latest online survey from Oct. 11 to 13 among 1,000 Canadian adults. The data was weighted to census figures for age, gender and region.
The firm says the poll carries a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.
Notably, the margin of error for a subsample – such as B.C. respondents – is higher than the margin for the whole survey.
Canada’s Auditor General says the mismanagement and changing priorities of immigration officials has caused an inventory backlog and resultant extension of waiting times.
“Most of the delays were really being caused by inefficient management practices around applications and managing the inventory,” said Karen Hogan at the release of her audit of Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada.
“There’s a backlog of inventory that, at times, is greater than the immigration level for a given year.
“The department has the ability to improve how they process applications, but also to be more transparent with the applications about what their wait time might actually be.”
With Canada’s record immigration levels targets for the upcoming years, at 465,000 this year, 485,000 in 2024, and 500,000 in 2025, the Auditor General’s findings hint at a systemic incapacity to handle the additional workload.
The audit was conducted to establish IRCC’s efficiency – or lack thereof – in processing permanent residence applications.
Eight permanent residence programs were focused on under the economic, family, and refugee and humanitarian classes.
All of those programs remained backlogged at the end of the previous year.
“On average, privately sponsored refugees waited 30 months for a decision while overseas spouses or common-law partners waited 15 months to be reunited with their partners in Canada,” Hogan says. “While processing times improved in most of the programs we examined, they continued to exceed the department’s service standards for most applications in 2022.”
Moreover, the Auditor General reported that some applications waited in the queue for longer periods of time after they were initially submitted by applicants. This was most common with refugee applications, which waited an average of 15 to 20 months before receiving an initial assessment.
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Differences in size and age of application backlogs by country of citizenship existed in seven of the eight permanent resident programs examined by the Auditor General.
While improvements have been made, the report said that the length of time some applications spent in the system is increasing, especially for refugee and spousal sponsorship applications from overseas.
In response to the audit, IRCC Minister Marc Miller said that his department has continued reducing backlogs by digitizing applications, hiring and training new staff, and relying on automation to increase processing capacity and efficiency.
“Immigration is critical to Canada’s long-term success, and we recognize the importance of ensuring that our systems operate efficiently,” he said.
“I am optimistic, considering the progress made by IRCC despite all the challenges it faced over the past few years.”
The report said that by the end of 2022, 99,000 refugees were still waiting their applications to be processed.
The processing time for refugee applications is 3 years on average, and many applicants spend years waiting on a decision.
Privately sponsored refugees waited 30 months on average for a decision, while overseas spouses or common-law partners waited an average 15 months to be reunited with their partners in Canada, compared to the 12-month service standards.
PNP Processing Time Increases
In the family class, upwards of 21,000 applications were finalized within six months of being received – ahead of at least 25,000 older applications that were in the backlog at the end of 2022.
In the Provincial Nominee Program (PNP), the backlog time increased from 12 to 20 months from January to December of 2022.
The age of applications for in-Canada spousal sponsorships increased from 27 to 47 months.
The report further demonstrated that backlogs vary by country in seven out of eight audited programs, especially for government-assisted refugees, federal skilled workers, and sponsored spouses who applied from out of country.
In the government-assisted refugees program, for example, more than half of the applications submitted by Somalian citizens and the Congolese citizens were backlogged.
In comparison, only one-third of Syrian applications were in backlog.
While these three countries have the most applications for government-assisted refugee sponsorships, their visa offices are also the most under-resourced.
“The department continued to assign application workloads to offices without assessing whether they had enough resources to process them,” said the audit.
The report’s overall point – Canada is taking more applications than it can handle under the current immigration targets the government has set.
Another contributing factor is the failure of the Immigration Minister to exercise his authority to “apply intake controls” during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Auditor General’s Recommendations:
To provide applicants with clear expectations about timelines for a decision, IRCC should establish “achievable and reliable” service standards for PR application processing. This includes refugee applications. Additionally, online information on expected processing times should be provided for all permanent resident applications and consider the volume and age of applications in its inventories.
IRCC should take steps to identify and address the differential wait times to support timely processing in all PR programs, as it works within the annual admission targets set by the Immigration Levels Plan. Moreover, it should develop and implement a plan to collect race-based and ethnocultural information from applicants directly to address any racial disparities in wait times.
IRCC should examine backlogged applications to identify and action processing delays within its control, including waiting for officer actions or follow-up. Older backlogged applications should also be prioritized while working to achieve the annual admission targets set by the Immigration Levels Plan.
To improve consistency of application processing times across its offices, IRCC should match assigned workloads with available resources, and it should support these decisions with reliable information on the available capacity within its offices. Immediate action needs to be taken by it to address application backlogs that have accumulated in certain offices with limited capacity.
To support timely processing for all applicants, IRCC should examine differential outcomes in processing times related to the implementation of automated decision-making tools and reduce these disparities to the extent possible, including by reallocating sufficient resources to the applications directed to the manual processing.
IRCC should implement – without further delay – online application portals for its refugee programs, while also working to complete its Digital Platform Modernization Initiative.
Finally someone with weight admits the truth about immigration. This story will not hit mainstream media. Kissinger was a high-level member of several groups including Rockefeller and was considered an influential globalist. Maybe he’s cleansing his soul? Whatever, we all knew all along what he just seems to realize suddenly now and shows how cut off from reality these people really are on fundamental issues and something we’ve known for decades about the dangers of open borders. Only when he watched Hamas supporters celebrate on the streets in western countries did he seem to connect the dots. For decades this globalist used his influence and helped build the WEF and supported Soros and watched as millions of migrants invade western countries. He never opened his mouth till now. It makes you wonder about these people. How evil and stupid they actually are. As a Jew, now he is upset as Hamas supporters throughout the West cheer on Hamas. Yet, he and his ilk long pushed for massive Third World immigration to Canada, the U.S. and Europe to replace and swamp the European indigenous people (Europe) or the European founding/settler people (Canada, the U.S., Australia) All along, we knew that multiculturalism was a dangerous and deceptive fraud and that “diversity is NOT our greatest strength!. — Paul Fromm)
Henry Kissinger on Hamas attacks fallout: Germany let in too many foreigners
As a minority in Berlin cheer Hamas’ attacks on Israel, former top US diplomat says mass immigration was a ‘grave mistake.’
“It was a grave mistake to let in so many people of totally different culture and religion and concepts, because it creates a pressure group inside each country that does that,” the 100-year-old ex-top American diplomat said | Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images
By POLITICO October 11, 2023 11:25 pm CET 2 minutes read
Hamas’ attack against Israel being celebrated on the streets of Berlin indicates that Germany has let too many foreigners into the country, according to former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.
“It was a grave mistake to let in so many people of totally different culture and religion and concepts, because it creates a pressure group inside each country that does that,” the 100-year-old ex-top American diplomat said in an interview with Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner for Germany’s Welt TV. Axel Springer is POLITICO’s parent company.
German-born Kissinger — who fled Nazi Germany with his family in 1938, and went on to become the architect of American foreign policy during the Vietnam War — said that it was “painful,” in response to a question about seeing Arabs in Berlin celebrating last weekend’s assault on Israel.
In a surprise attack that started on Saturday morning, Hamas militants stormed out of the Gaza Strip, killing more than 1,200 Israelis and abducting dozens more, while firing rockets at cities including Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Israel has since hit back by commencing a siege of Gaza and firing its own barrage of retaliatory missiles, killing hundreds of Palestinians.
Hamas’ “open act of aggression” must be met with “some penalty,” Kissinger said — while warning about the potential for dangerous escalation in the region.
“The Middle East conflict has the danger of escalating and bringing in other Arab countries under the pressure of their public opinion,” Kissinger warned, while pointing to the lessons learned from the 1973 Yom Kippur War, during which an Arab coalition led by Egypt and Syria attacked Israel.
The real goal of Hamas and its supporters “can only be to mobilize the Arab world against Israel and to get off the track of peaceful negotiations,” Kissinger said.
It is also “possible” that Israel could take action against Iran, if it considers Tehran to have had a hand in perpetrating the attack, the former top diplomat added.
More broadly, Kissinger said, Russia’s ongoing aggression in Ukraine coupled with Hamas’ attack on Israel represent a “fundamental attack on the international system
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