Feelings Not Facts

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Bronwyn Bragg, an assistant professor at the University of Lethbridge with 15 years of experience in migration research, joins me to discuss Alberta’s referendum on immigration policy. Her research reveals that the referendum’s five questions appear designed to manipulate public sentiment rather than address genuine policy needs. Bragg explains that the questions target temporary foreign workers, international students, and refugee claimants—collectively about 5.5% of Alberta’s population— who already pay taxes into the healthcare and education systems they would be denied access to under proposed changes . The first referendum question proposes increased provincial control over immigration…