Are you saying I can't criticize immigration because my family generations ago are immigrants? If not, then I did miss your point.
My rebuttal to that is that I did not choose to be born here. And I'm here now and it's obvious that immigration levels are too high given our failing housing and health care policies for example.
why are you assuming that’s not the reasoning the people in the poll have?
Well, you have to read the article/poll, because a large number said that immigrants (as people) are a harm to Canada.
Barely anyone in Canada actually dislikes immigrants themselves
We can agree to disagree on this point. Seeing how hate crimes are up, and that only visible minority immigrants are targeted, I'd say we are far from having a country where everyone likes immigrants (as people).
What a ridiculous statement though. There were people in Canada before the current indigenous people, does that make our First Nations, Metis, and Inuit peoples settlers and conquerors? Where's the buck stop?
Do the pollsters have a problem with our indigenous "immigrants" or just the brown, yellow, and black ones?
When I hear someone say that "there are too many immigrants!", they aren't talking about immigration policy. They are actually just being racist towards the other immigrants.
The majority of people in this country are a descendent of an immigrant of the last several generations. So, it's silly to have a problem with actual immigrant people.