Number of illegal immigrants in Canada is too high: Angus Reid Institute poll
Ottawa, Aug 3 (IBNS): Angus Reid Institute poll conducted online revealed that the number of illegal Canadian immigrants is too high, media reports said.
The Angus Reid Institute -- a national, not-for-profit, non-partisan public opinion research foundation covering issues affecting economic, social, governance, domestic and foreign policy in Canada and its world -- interviewed about 1,500 members, between July 25-30, 2018, over the Internet.
Reportedly a probabilistic sample of this size would yield a margin of error of +/- 2.5 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.
When the polls asked the Canadians about their opinion, 67 percent of pollsters said that number of illegal immigrants in Canada was too high, while 29 percent pollsters said that the number was manageable and only 6 percent of pollsters said that Canada can manage more immigrants.
Canadians also said that they trust Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer more than Trudeau to best handle the situation.
Ottawa had been receiving pressure from Federal Conservatives and provincial governments to take control of this critical situation.
According to official reports, Liberal government’s long-promised triage system, with an aim to redirect illegal border immigrants from crowded shelters in Montreal and Toronto, will be in place by the end of September.
(Reporting by Asha Bajaj)
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