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pedanther ([personal profile] pedanther) wrote 2019-05-15 02:09 pm (UTC)

On their own website, they make a point of specifically disclaiming the kinds of things that are often meant by political groups who are against high immigration and population growth.

They state that they're opposed to discrimination of immigrants based on ethnicity or religion. They're in favour of letting refugees in, both on moral grounds and on the practical grounds that refugees don't make nearly as much difference to the population numbers as the scare campaigns would suggest. In the area of internally generated population growth, they're opposed to restrictions on family size and coercive efforts to reduce fertility.

Their plan for reducing internally generated population growth involves better access to education and contraception for all. I'm not sure I've got my head around their immigration policy yet, but part of it involves throttling back the skilled worker immigration programs in favour of putting more effort on increasing the skills of the people who already live here and improving internal migration (encouraging skilled city people to move to regional areas, etc.).

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