Source: Environics Research Group / Trudeau Foundation. Methodology: Telephone interviews with 2,021 Canadian adults, conducted from Sept. 18 to Oct. 12, 2006. Margin of error is 2.2 per cent.
Adults in Canada are divided on the way immigrants should behave, according to a poll by Environics Research Group released by the Trudeau Foundation. 49 per cent of respondents think foreign-born residents should be free to maintain their religious and cultural practices in Canada, while 40 per cent believe they should blend into Canadian society. Multiculturalism was adopted as an official government policy in 1971, and ratified under the Canadian Multiculturalism Act of 1988. Foreign-born residents account for almost 18 per cent of Canada’s total population of 32 million people. On Nov. 16, immigration minister Monte Solberg announced specific changes to existing regulations, saying, "There are going to be certain occupations under tremendous pressure where employers are having trouble finding workers. We will reduce the requirements that they have to go through to bring in those categories (of immigrants) into the country. It will save them several weeks."
Polling Data
Which comes closer to your view?
Immigrants should be free to maintain their religious, cultural practices in Canada - 49%
Immigrants should blend into Canadian society - 40%
Immigrants should do "both equally" - 9%
Not sure - 2%
Adults in Canada are divided on the way immigrants should behave, according to a poll by Environics Research Group released by the Trudeau Foundation. 49 per cent of respondents think foreign-born residents should be free to maintain their religious and cultural practices in Canada, while 40 per cent believe they should blend into Canadian society. Multiculturalism was adopted as an official government policy in 1971, and ratified under the Canadian Multiculturalism Act of 1988. Foreign-born residents account for almost 18 per cent of Canada’s total population of 32 million people. On Nov. 16, immigration minister Monte Solberg announced specific changes to existing regulations, saying, "There are going to be certain occupations under tremendous pressure where employers are having trouble finding workers. We will reduce the requirements that they have to go through to bring in those categories (of immigrants) into the country. It will save them several weeks."
Polling Data
Which comes closer to your view?
Immigrants should be free to maintain their religious, cultural practices in Canada - 49%
Immigrants should blend into Canadian society - 40%
Immigrants should do "both equally" - 9%
Not sure - 2%
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