Dominion Society of Canada - December 17, 2025


The ＂Immigration Consensus＂ is a lie

Hosted by
Daniel Tyrie
Mentioned
William Lyon McKenzie King
That festive feeling 🎅 Remigration is the only solution.

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2 minutes

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179.39

Word count

527

Sentence count

36

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Hate speech

2

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Is there really an immigration consensus in Canada? You see this term thrown around by politicians and mainstream media talking heads as if it s the gospel truth, but the reality is that this so-called consensus has always been an elite-made lie, but it s rapidly losing credibility. Canada is a nation of settlers, not immigrants. And Canadians have consistently held isolationist, anti-immigration views throughout our history.

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00:00:00.000 Is there really an immigration consensus in Canada?
00:00:02.480 You see this term thrown around by politicians and mainstream media talking heads as if it's the gospel truth.
00:00:07.900 But the reality is that this so-called consensus has always been an elite manufactured lie.
00:00:13.020 But it's rapidly losing credibility.
00:00:14.880 Canada is a nation of settlers, not immigrants.
00:00:17.400 And Canadians have consistently held isolationist, anti-immigration views throughout our history.
00:00:22.800 Early prime ministers put importance on maintaining Canada's bicultural Anglo-French identity
00:00:27.580 and consistently introduced policies to protect it.
00:00:30.780 For instance, in 1885, a head tax was introduced on immigrants from China.
00:00:35.360 The tax was continually increased over the subsequent 20 years
00:00:38.500 and was explicitly designed to discourage immigration from China
00:00:41.940 and encourage Chinese laborers working on the railway to return home after their work.
00:00:46.680 In 1908, William Lyon Mackenzie King,
00:00:49.420 then acting as the Deputy Minister of Labor in the Wilfrid Laurier government,
00:00:53.420 introduced the Continuous Journey Regulation.
00:00:55.280 This amendment to the Immigration Act required all immigrants to travel directly to Canada from their home country
00:01:00.600 and was a means of restricting immigration from India and Japan, as there were no direct journeys available at the time.
00:01:07.180 You may not agree with these policies, but that doesn't change the fact that they are our history.
00:01:11.620 These and many other restrictionist policies were very popular at the time.
00:01:15.420 In the post-war period, attitudes about race and immigration began to liberalize,
00:01:19.280 but public sentiment remained very much against immigration.
00:01:22.360 In a 1947 speech in the House of Commons, Prime Minister King said the following,
00:01:26.560 The people of Canada do not wish, as a result of mass immigration, 1.00
00:01:29.920 to make a fundamental alteration in the character of our population.
00:01:33.060 Large-scale immigration from the Orient would change the fundamental composition of the Canadian population.
00:01:38.860 The government intends to maintain that policy.
00:01:41.700 And public opinion was consistent with this view.
00:01:43.580 We have Gallup poll results to prove it.
00:01:45.520 In 1952, 55% said Canada did not need more immigrants.
00:01:49.080 In 1955, 60% supported keeping racial restrictions in place.
00:01:53.260 In 1960, 70% opposed increases to immigration.
00:01:56.820 And in 1993, 55% agreed that immigration to Canada was too much.
00:02:01.440 Admittedly, there was a brief period in the late 1990s and early 2000s where immigration was broadly popular.
00:02:07.760 This is before the long-term impacts of mass immigration started to set in.
00:02:11.380 But more recently, Canadians have returned to their anti-immigration beliefs.
00:02:15.200 In 2004, 58% of Canadians said there was too much immigration.
00:02:18.380 And 48% said we need mass deportations.
00:02:21.440 In a poll conducted by the government earlier this year, 63% said immigration was too high.
00:02:26.620 Elites try and astroturf this vision of Canada where we are a nation of immigrants.
00:02:30.540 They push that everyone other than the First Nations, 1.00
00:02:32.880 even families who have been here for hundreds of years, are still immigrants.
00:02:36.780 That there's a consensus on immigration and anyone who questions it is a bigot.
00:02:40.440 But the reality is that Canadians do not and have never agreed with mass immigration policies.
00:02:45.540 It's time to bring our leadership in line with our expectations.
00:02:48.980 There is no immigration consensus, but there is a rapidly growing re-migration consensus.
00:02:55.160 Long live Canada.