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.

The government will create a new economic class of permanent residency candidates for people who would not otherwise have qualified to stay.{ai:summary}<p>Stephen Harper, in his 2018 memoir, argued that Canada's immigration policy once united new arrivals with citizens' aspirations. He claimed that a focus on legal, secure, and economically driven immigration fosters public confidence.</p><p>Yet, after years of broad acceptance, recent years have seen that confidence shaken by poor policies from Ottawa, leading Canadians to question the system. #society</p>

John Ivison: How do the Liberals fix skyrocketing immigration? By lowering the entry standards

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