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| Canadian attitudes on immigration hardening against Muslims |
| 2002-12-24 |
| The image of the "Canadian mosaic" as a benevolent tapestry of different cultures and religions is challenged by a new poll that indicates a strong core of support for keeping Muslim immigrants out of the country more than a year after the trauma of Sept. 11, 2001. In November, a poll for Maclean's magazine, Global TV and the Citizen asked 1,400 Canadians across the nation to assess various ways the government might want to respond to the threat of terrorism. "Restricting the number of immigrants that come to Canada from Muslim countries" received a 44-per-cent approval rating, with support running highest in Central Canada and lowest in Alberta and British Columbia. These are the people who don't want to see corpses in the malls of Manitoba... A marginally lower number — 42 per cent — opposed such restrictions, "Corpses? I don't mind..." while 12 per cent of respondents were neutral. "Hi! I'm Bob and this is my brother, Doug. We don't have an opinion, see?" The 44-per-cent approval was down from 49 per cent a year earlier, but the continuing strength of support for restricting Muslims surprised the Strategic Counsel, the Toronto pollster that conducted the Nov. 1-12 telephone survey, whose national results are considered accurate within 3.1 percentage points, 19 times out of 20. Shoulda just polled MPs. Then the results would be more to their liking. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #2 oops, that didn't work, trying again... see www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/politics/khalifa.html |
| Posted by: RW 2002-12-24 15:21:38 |
| #1 To understand why the %44 approved, see And be sure to note point 5 & 6 of "The duties and responsibilities of the Khalifa". |
| Posted by: RW 2002-12-24 15:18:07 |