70% of young Canadians believe immigrants should share Canadian values

By Isaac Lamoureux, True North Wire

The majority of young Canadians feel that immigrants and permanent residents coming to Canada should share common Canadian values, according to a recent Leger poll.

Leger’s poll surveyed 938 Canadians between the ages of 18 and 39 from coast to coast.

Seventy percent of respondents said Canada should ensure that immigrants and permanent residents coming to the country should share common Canadian values, such as respect for different minority groups.

While 70% agreed that immigrants to Canada should share the country’s values, only 14% disagreed, 5% strongly and 9% somewhat. Fifteen percent of Canadians said they didn’t know, while 33% strongly agreed and 37% somewhat agreed.

Canadians were also asked whether they thought Canada’s immigration levels were good or bad. Unfortunately, the polling prefaced the immigration questions with flawed statistics, claiming Canada welcomes 500,000 new immigrants a year.

As previously reported by True North, the actual number of immigrants coming to Canada is almost five times larger. When accounting for permanent residents, temporary foreign workers, international students, and illegal immigrants, Canada takes in about 2.2 million people every year.