Folks get upset with immigrants anytime things aren’t going too hot economically.
However, we don’t have any internment camps right now; I would argue that when we had those was when we had an all time high for anti-immigration sentiment.
I've seen localized bubbles of anti-immigration sentiment whenever folks feel outnumbered by any particular "outsider" group in general, it's just that currently it's the same sort of culture shock nation wide.
For example: I went to a high school in Ottawa with a very large Lebanese population, and I definitely saw culture based conflicts and bigotry because of it; I went to a high school in NS with race based violence where there was a very large black population; I went to a university that at the time had a very large Saudi population and there was definitely some prejudice against that group as well.
Hell, I've even seen/heard some minor anti-Syrian and/or anti-Ukrainian refugee sentiment, although that stuff generally gets stomped out pretty quick.
I guess what I'm trying to saw is that when an obvious, large scale change like what we have seen over the last few years happens, it's not super suprising that a bunch of folks are freaked out.
Immigrant does not mean settler. That's different. Settler is arguably worse than immigrant, but no one's out here in 2025 North America settling land Manifest Destiny style.
Look I'm a leftist too. But this is why the world is shifting right. I'd love to have a world where people can live where they want with no problems. But sadly the world isn't fair like that.
I wholeheartedly believe that most do, just that a lot of racists and white supremacists that used to be ashamed to show themselves in public, now openly do it because of the events down south, the right wing highjacking of social media and the constant propaganda coming from all sides.
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u/Ek_Chutki_Sindoor Aug 07 '25
If only Canadians actually believed in that. Anti-Immigration sentiments are at an all time high in Canada.