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How Canada's immigration debate soured - and helped seal Trudeau's fate

Jan 09, 2025 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -24% Somewhat Liberal

  • Reliability

    55% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    -16% Somewhat Liberal

  • Politician Portrayal

    -41% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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-4% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : The post generated hundreds of thousands of views and a torrent of anti-foreigner hatred, with many arguing that newcomers should "go home".
54% : After Trump first entered office in 2017, the number of asylum claims skyrocketed, with thousands walking across the border to Canada.
48% : Since Donald Trump won the US presidential election in November, Poilievre "has been speaking much more about immigration", claims Prof Rose - "so much that it has become primed in the minds of voters".
38% : This time around, Canada's national police force - the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) - says it began preparing a contingency plan for increased migrant crossings at the border well ahead of Trump being sworn in.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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