加拿大联邦移民部进行的年度调查显示，比起难民，加拿大人更乐意接受移民。52%受访者认为目前国家接纳移民的人数适当，23%认为人数太多；40%人认为接收难民的人数适当，30%人则为接收太多难民。
加拿大研究学会执行副总裁Jack Jedwab认为，政府希望透过调查，掌握民众对于难民数目增加的反应。
这项调查是在2016年8月11日至30日期间进行的，访问了1598名加拿大人，正负误差比率为2.45%。
Jack Jedwab说，虽然那个时候特朗普还没有上台，关于移民和难民政策的争议也远不像今天这么激烈，自那以后，民众的态度有什么变化目前还不知道，但这个调查还是反映出加拿大人对待移民和难民的态度。
这项调查是在政府10月公布移民计划发布之前完成的，并且是在联邦政府收到其经济咨询委员会建议大量增加移民人数到45万的报告之前进行的。
在这个调查中，调查员问受访者，要是政府在今后5年增加10万经济移民，他们的支持度有多高。结果42%的被调查者说，他们在某程度上支持。若在今后5年增加经济移民20万人，被调查者的支持率则降至38%。
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A sign is seen near Emerson, Man. Thursday, February 9, 2016. Refugees have been crossing the closed border port into Canada at Emerson and authorities had a town hall meeting in Emerson to discuss their options. THE CANADIAN PRESS/John Woods
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报道说虽然这项调查每年进行，但调查问卷不是年年一模一样，由于问题不一样﹐很难比较人们在数年间的态度变化。最新调查的问题与上次调查有些内容相同。2016年的调查中，52%的人认为政府接受的移民人数合适，而在2015年调查中相同的问题则有58%的人认为政府接受的移民人数合适。2016年的调查中，约有46%人认为难民对加拿大经济有正面影响，这个比例超过上一年调查的41%。
按照移民部的计划，到2030年之前，每年所增加的移民数量将达到408000人，本世纪末，加拿大的总人口将达到一个亿，移民部的报告中写道，因为加拿大人口老龄化严重，增加移民数量可以增加劳动力，刺激经济增长。但当移民部公布2017年移民配额为30万人左右时，多少还是出乎业界预料，因为这与上一年比没有什么大的区别。
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OTAWA — A newly released federal survey on attitudes towards immigration suggests Canadians are somewhat more enthusiastic about accepting economic migrants than they are about refugees.
While 52 per cent of those polled in the Immigration Department's annual tracking study felt the right number of immigrants were coming to Canada, 23 per cent thought it was too high.
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Meanwhile, 40 per cent felt the right number of refugees was being admitted and 30 per cent thought that figure was too high.
The 2016 survey was done long before immigration and refugee policy became a centrepiece of the U.S. presidential campaign and the eventual new administration of Donald Trump, and before the question of what values immigrants to Canada ought to hold became a centrepiece of Conservative leadership politics here.
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So while the data might not reflect how attitudes have shifted since those developments, it's telling for what it was probing for in the first place, suggested Jack Jedwab, the executive vice president of the Association for Canadian Studies and co-chairman of an upcoming conference on integration and immigration.
"I think what the government is trying to get at is the issue of the extent to which people are more preoccupied by the increase in refugees that's happening in a lot other places in the world," he said.
While the survey did suggest some differences in viewpoints on refugees versus other classes of immigrants, Jedwab said they aren't substantial.
"Right now, we're seeing globally an effort on the part of elected officials to try to make those distinctions — refugees bad, economic migrants good, that's the distinction that's being made in the States to some extent," he said.
"And I don't think, based on what we're seeing now in this poll, that we're seeing that idea take effect here."
Pollsters were in field between August 11 to 31, 2016, asking 1,598 Canadians for their opinions on immigration. The survey has a margin of error of 2.45 per cent, 19 times out of 20.
The survey was done ahead of the release of the immigration levels plan, published in October, and also before the federal government received a report from its economic advisory council that would recommend a massive increase in the number of immigrants to Canada, from what had been about 260,000 a year to 450,000.
The survey did probe Canadians' appetite for an increase. Respondents were asked to what extent they'd support boosting levels of economic immigration by 100,000 people over the next five years and 42 per cent exhibited some level of support for the idea. If the number ratcheted up further to 200,000 over five years, support fell to 38 per cent.
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The Liberals eventually nixed any major increase, going instead with a modest uptake in admissions to around 300,000.
While the survey is done annually, not all the questions are repeated each year, making it difficult to compare attitudes over time unless the questions are exactly the same.
There was some crossover between this year and last year's study.
Fifty-two per cent of those polled in 2016 thought the government is accepting the right number of immigrants, down from 58 per cent of those polled in 2015.
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Meanwhile, about 46 per cent of those polled in 2016 felt that refugees have a positive impact on the Canadian economy, up from the 41 per cent who felt that way in the survey done last year.
The 2016 survey results were published on the federal government's polling research report website on Wednesday.
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