Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada.
Can Rev Sociol. 2023 Nov;60(4):616-645. doi: 10.1111/cars.12450. Epub 2023 Aug 26.
We use correspondence analysis to look at the changing nature of political debates in the Canadian House of Commons concerning immigration over a five-decade period. Using data drawn from the Linked Parliamentary Data (LiPaD) project we assess the way in which immigration policy and issues are discussed by different political parties from September of 1968 to June of 2019. We look at debates in five of the longest Prime Ministers' mandates. In doing so, we trace changes in both emphasis and rhetoric by political party. We find that party political views on immigration became more polarized with the breakup of the Progressive Conservative party in the early 1990s. Liberal party views moved toward to the left of the spectrum while the Reform/Alliance/Conservative Party of Canada parties moved toward the right and became increasingly entrenched until 2015. After that, the Conservatives and the Liberals moved closer to the centre. The New Democratic Party was the most consistent in its views over time, focusing on issues of humanitarianism as well as broad policy issues.
我们使用对应分析来研究加拿大下议院在五十年间有关移民问题的政治辩论的变化性质。我们利用来自链接议会数据（LiPaD）项目的数据，评估了不同政党从 1968 年 9 月到 2019 年 6 月期间讨论移民政策和问题的方式。我们研究了任期最长的五位总理中的五个任期的辩论。在这样做的过程中，我们追踪了政党在重点和言辞上的变化。我们发现，自 20 世纪 90 年代早期进步保守党解体以来，政党对移民的看法变得更加两极分化。自由党观点向左移动，而改革/联盟/加拿大保守党向右移动，并变得越来越根深蒂固，直到 2015 年。此后，保守党和自由党更接近中间立场。新民主党的观点随着时间的推移最为一致，关注人道主义问题以及广泛的政策问题。
