Poll finds that Canadian immigrants from Asia would vote strongly Conservative, want less immigration

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This is just an excerpt from The Ezra Levant Show. To see new, ad-free episodes, which air Monday - Friday @ 8 p.m. ET | 6 p.m. MT, become a subscriber to RebelNews+. This episode originally aired on April 19, 2024.

On last night's episode of The Ezra Levant Show, Ezra talked about a new poll by Leger, the largest Canadian-owned pollster, which specifically asked new immigrants of different racial backgrounds their thoughts on immigration and their political preferences.

2,100 people were surveyed in the poll focused on newcomers, meaning people who came to Canada as recently as yesterday and as long ago as 10 years ago. When asked who they'd vote for, 24% leaned conservative, 22% leaned liberal, and 38% said they didn't know.

"Which makes sense," commented Ezra. "I mean, if you just arrived here as a student visa holder, you probably haven't thought about politics yet. But right there, that's interesting, isn't it? New Canadians are ready to vote for Pierre Pollievre and the Conservatives, the typical media smear of 'you're racist' doesn't seem to be working anymore."

Black immigrants lean Liberal, while South Asians, meaning mainly India, but also including Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka, are strongly Conservative. Chinese immigrants said they would vote Conservative three-to-one.

"That's honestly sort of surprising to me. I thought that maybe Justin Trudeau sucking up to communist China would be appealing. But I mean, I'm just telling you what the poll says three to one there for the conservatives," said Ezra.

Only 7% of the immigrants surveyed said no, we should have more immigrants to Canada, whereas 42% said immigration needs to be reduced. 41% of white immigrants said there are too many immigrants coming to Canada. The group that had the fewest people saying there were too many immigrants was black immigrants at 17%.

50% of people from India and 64% of people who came recently from Southeast Asia said there are too many immigrants coming to Canada.

Ezra commented on the poll results:

Only 4% of Southeast Asians wanted more immigration. Visible minority immigrants are harder line on immigration than white folks. And you can see Chinese Canadians are almost as skeptical of immigration. 55% of them want the doors closed. What do you think of this?

The point is that on its own terms for whatever it's worth this poll by Canada's largest pollster shows that far from immigration skepticism being a racist point of view, immigration skepticism is actually the dominant point of view for Canadian immigrants from minority races.

Let me put it another way. Minority immigrants, immigrants of color, are more anti-immigration than white immigrants. Compared to other polls of all Canadians, particularly the polls taken by Angus Reed, all immigrants are more anti-immigration than old-stock Canadians are. Maybe it's time the conservatives embrace a message of immigration, sanity or as I like to call it, net-zero immigration.