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FILDEBRANDT: Canada’s immigration consensus is breaking

Derek Fildebrandt

Derek Fildebrandt reacts line by line to a National Observer column by Max Fawcett warning that American-style anti-immigration politics are taking hold in Canada.

Derek pushes back on the idea that Canadians ever shared a broad consensus on high immigration, weighs Alberta’s upcoming immigration referendum questions, and discusses assimilation, temporary workers, wages, taxpayer-funded services and whether Conservatives are being pushed toward a harder line on immigration.