A decade ago I was travelling a fair bit. I’d always take a cab to Pearson Intl for my flights. I did an experiment and started asking every cab driver, they were always brown with accents, how long they’d lived here and why they chose Canada.
100% of them said ‘we wanted free health care & could bring our whole family’. There was never any other answer. No one came to help build the nation or to ‘be Canadian’. Immigration did NOT used to be this way. Handouts and freebies are all this nation represents to the world now. If we don’t vote for & demand politicians stop this unvetted, irresponsible greed mindset our immigration system has become then Canada is done. And seriously good luck to these gimme handouts immigrants once the country is bankrupt & their gravy train ends.
I see the impact of these unusually high immigration levels every day through people’s constant and ubiquitous search for housing (at any cost) and health care (finding a GP is damn near impossible). However, I’d be curious to know if there is an upside to these immigration policies given how low fertility rates are in Canada. Will Canada ultimately have the last laugh compared to their counterparts?
This article also does not address all the new immigrants to Canada who are past their prime—i.e., they are no longer employable (usually due to age) in Canada but require much of our social safety net to survive.
Canada doesn't exist if its culture is eroded and population diluted in order to fund the State, so I'm unsure who would be there to have "the last laugh." As noted in the article, Canada faces two choices: let go of social programs and remain Canada or hold on to the social state and cease being Canada. The only upside to these policies is for those creating them as they maintain their bureaucracies, both Canadians and the people who immigrate here will bear the brunt of the consequences from these policies. Benefits in this scenario are only afforded to the State.
A decade ago I was travelling a fair bit. I’d always take a cab to Pearson Intl for my flights. I did an experiment and started asking every cab driver, they were always brown with accents, how long they’d lived here and why they chose Canada.
100% of them said ‘we wanted free health care & could bring our whole family’. There was never any other answer. No one came to help build the nation or to ‘be Canadian’. Immigration did NOT used to be this way. Handouts and freebies are all this nation represents to the world now. If we don’t vote for & demand politicians stop this unvetted, irresponsible greed mindset our immigration system has become then Canada is done. And seriously good luck to these gimme handouts immigrants once the country is bankrupt & their gravy train ends.
I see the impact of these unusually high immigration levels every day through people’s constant and ubiquitous search for housing (at any cost) and health care (finding a GP is damn near impossible). However, I’d be curious to know if there is an upside to these immigration policies given how low fertility rates are in Canada. Will Canada ultimately have the last laugh compared to their counterparts?
This article also does not address all the new immigrants to Canada who are past their prime—i.e., they are no longer employable (usually due to age) in Canada but require much of our social safety net to survive.
Canada doesn't exist if its culture is eroded and population diluted in order to fund the State, so I'm unsure who would be there to have "the last laugh." As noted in the article, Canada faces two choices: let go of social programs and remain Canada or hold on to the social state and cease being Canada. The only upside to these policies is for those creating them as they maintain their bureaucracies, both Canadians and the people who immigrate here will bear the brunt of the consequences from these policies. Benefits in this scenario are only afforded to the State.