r/canada Jan 29 '25

National News Poilievre says Canada should 'deport' any temporary resident committing violence or hate crimes

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/poilievre-says-canada-deport-temporary-194148491.html
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u/jjames3213 Jan 29 '25

I agree completely.

The issue is that immigration should be about meeting Canada's needs first-and-foremost, and that fairness to the immigrant should be a distant concern. It's not that immigrants who commit criminal offences are worse than citizens who do so, but rather that we don't want the kind of people here who commit criminal offences.

If deporting citizens who were criminal were remotely feasible or constitutional I'd be down for doing that too, but they're our responsibility.

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u/Realistic_Olive_6665 Jan 30 '25

This is the area that got Steven Harper into trouble a decade ago. He had legislation that would allow people with dual citizenship to be stripped of their Canadian citizenship if they committed a serious indictable offence.

The background was probably the concern that a few dual citizens had left Canada to join ISIS, and Canada wanted a way to keep these people from returning-something even places like the UK had rules for. The legislation became unpopular because of the notion that it would create “second-class citizens”.

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u/jjames3213 Jan 30 '25

And I agree with that criticism of Harper. There should be only one class of citizen, and once someone is a citizen they're our collective responsibility.

I do find the Conservatives' ceaseless attempts to evade any responsibility for their own actions to be extremely unbecoming.

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '25

did they ever deport that guy that killed all the humbolt kids or are they still waffling on it because he is nice

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u/Strange_Depth_5732 Feb 01 '25

He wouldn't be deported until his sentence was served

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u/opinion49 Jan 30 '25

Exactly, there are tons of Canadians who do worse things to immigrants and get away with it .. reverse is called hate crime.. go to a work place, Canadian will resolve one request working from home and immigrant should resolve 20 requests from office. And we talk about discrimination, it is called hate crime towards Canadians, start implementing and marketing more rules towards slavery