Toronto, Oct. 2 -- While the Canadian government will present its new immigration levels plan in the weeks ahead, growing sentiment against increasing intake of newcomers will weigh on its decision. The plan for the three years ahead is expected to be tabled in Parliament during the ongoing fall session. While numbers in both permanent and temporary categories have been tempered over the last two years, the explosive increase in newcomers under the government of then prime minister Justin Trudeau has led to escalating anti-immigrant feeling in Canada, sometimes bordering on xenophobia. The recent anti-immigration turn in Canada is exemplified by graffiti that was spraypainted at a prominent location, next to a children's park, in the Greater Toronto Area or GTA town of Mississauga over the weekend. It read, "Indian rats". A recent survey conducted by the polling firm Leger for the Association for Canadian Studies found that 60% of respondents felt the country did not need new immigrants. At 63%, that figure was higher for the cohort defined as non-immigrants, though immigrants favoured the intake by a slim margin of 52% for with 48% against. What was even more startling is that a greater percentage of Canadians now appear to favour assimilation by newcomers as compared to Americans. At least 51% of Canadians surveyed agreed with the statement that immigrants "should give up their customs and traditions and adopt those of the majority." This contrasts with just 29% of Americans who shared the view....