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Conservatives’ push to scrap foreign worker program meets public anxieties, but risks scapegoating migrants, say observers

'The danger [and] challenge is for the Conservatives to have their message portrayed, or come across, as being unwelcoming to new Canadians and diverse Canadians who inhabit large parts of our major cities, moved there, were making a difference there,' says Conservative pundit Tim Powers.

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