{"id":309,"date":"2002-12-22T19:37:00","date_gmt":"2002-12-23T00:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/uncategorised\/maclean_year-end_poll_2002.html"},"modified":"2006-10-15T19:27:29","modified_gmt":"2006-10-16T00:27:29","slug":"maclean_year-end_poll_2002","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/politics\/maclean_year-end_poll_2002.html","title":{"rendered":"Poll: 44% of Canadians are prejudiced xenophobes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newswire.ca\/\">Canada NewsWire<\/a> is reporting that, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macleans.ca\/xta-doc2\/2002\/12\/30\/Cover\/77548.shtml\">Maclean&#8217;s 19th Annual Year-End Poll<\/a>, <q>44% of Canadians would restrict Canada&#8217;s intake of Muslim immigrants.<\/q> This disturbing statistic was part of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newswire.ca\/releases\/December2002\/22\/c6131.html\" title=\"Canadians are Cranky, Maclean's 19th Annual Year-End Poll\"> a summary of the poll findings<\/a>, which also stated that <q>60% [of Canadians] would put refugee claimants arriving &#8216;without valid ID&#8217; on the next plane back to where they came from.<\/q> (I don&#8217;t know about you, but the first thing that I would do before fleeing death and state persecution is make sure that my ID is valid and up-to-date.) Lastly, <q>51% favour <em>locking up refugee claimants<\/em> in &#8216;secure locations&#8217; until their cases are heard<\/q>, emphasis mine.<\/p>\n<p>Should we start building the internment camps now or simply hand out brightly-coloured armbands to Muslims and refugees?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newswire.ca\/\">Canada NewsWire<\/a> is reporting that, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macleans.ca\/xta-doc2\/2002\/12\/30\/Cover\/77548.shtml\">Maclean&#8217;s 19th Annual Year-End Poll<\/a>, 44% of Canadians would restrict Canada&#8217;s intake of Muslim immigrants. This disturbing statistic was part of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newswire.ca\/releases\/December2002\/22\/c6131.html\" title=\"Canadians are Cranky, Maclean's 19th Annual Year-End Poll\"> a summary of the poll findings<\/a>, which also stated that 60% [of Canadians] would&nbsp;&hellip;&nbsp;<a class=\"read_more\" href=\"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/politics\/maclean_year-end_poll_2002.html\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Continue reading &ldquo;Poll: 44% of Canadians are prejudiced xenophobes&rdquo;\"><span>Read more<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}