Stephen Harper suggested in his 2018 book, Right Here, Right Now, that historic support for immigration in Canada was because policy united the aspirations of new arrivals with those of citizens.
“Make immigration legal, secure and, in the main, economically driven and it will have a high level of public confidence,” he wrote.
Canadians have rejected the premise that the country accepts too many immigrants for more than two decades, but public confidence in the system has been rocked by disastrous public policy emerging from Ottawa over the past couple of years.
