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Immigration accounts for over 94% of Canada’s population growth in Q2 of 2022

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Post by moralestapia »

3qz wrote: post #4

Canada has an immigration rate 10x the rate of the US but any discussion of lowering this is considered racist. I have a top 5% income but I will never own a house in my life and can’t access a family doctor. We have way too many people! The population is expected to be 50% foreign born or children of immigrants by 2040 and it’s already majority foreign born in our biggest cities. I honestly don’t expect this country…

>I have a top 5% income but I will never own a house in my life

That's weird, really. I'm about 10% of income there and could easily buy a house in 3-5 years. Not on Vancouver, though, if that's what you mean.

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Post by zaptheimpaler »

Yeah Canada is racist as fuck because of these tensions. The best part is how the media and politicians have the citizens blaming the immigrants, while the politicians and developers welcome both cheap labor and rich trust fund kids. A quick tour of the govt stats and reports on immigration show they desperately need young people to pay taxes and prop up the aging population.

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Post by nwmcsween »

So as someone who has "interviewed" the lower class immigrants and TFW, it's truely a depressing situation, a particular one showed me they lived in a converted garage with units similar to a storage locker (6x6ft) while paying a large sum of their wage (the business had a cork board with these "livable" storage units for rent) and broke down crying half way through. There have been thousands of other instances of businesess abusing this as well. Hopefully more Canadians will ask questions and stop the abuse.

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Post by nine_k »

bombcar wrote: post #109
nine_k wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

An American may lack a cleat ethnic identity, but I suppose that the American national identity is very much a thing. The American values, the American dream, the liberty, the flag, etc. A large number of Americans is pretty patriotic, despite being ethnically varied. While at it: both Germany and France used to be much more varied in cultures and languages, but were unified by their centralized states. A dilution of…

If America didn’t have an ethnic identity you’d not be able to recognize Americans the world over l.

A ton of Americans around me identify ethnically in various ways, and keep some of their ethnical habits (Mexican, various Caribbean, Jewish, Irish, various African, several Chinese, etc).

Still, they see themselves as fellow Anericans.

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Post by nine_k »

_8j50 wrote: post #145
nine_k wrote: post #54

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How do you think immigration should be fixed? Should the US absorb large amounts of people from Latin America and from Africa?

No, the amount of people isn't the issue, but why did you pick those places? Sounds like you don't like people from there? And it also sounds like you don't have a grasp on just how broken and messed up USCIS is.

I picked the less well-off regions of the world; immigration is almost universally from poorer places to richer places.

No, I don't mind more immigrants, the US was built by immigrants, and I do remember what's written on the statue of Liberty. Ellis Island stopped accepting immigrants so easily though.

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Post by oatmeal_croc »

LAC-Tech wrote: post #85
oatmeal_croc wrote: post #58

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As an Indian, the thought of India colonizing a country is chuckleworthy.

Your ethnic group has never invaded and colonised an area?

I'd say no. For thousands of years, we've been the colonisees, not the colonisers.

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Post by LAC-Tech »

oatmeal_croc wrote: post #158
LAC-Tech wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your ethnic group has never invaded and colonised an area?

I'd say no. For thousands of years, we've been the colonisees, not the colonisers.

If you'd been colonised for thousands of years your group would not exist anymore.

The fact your group - which you are being very coy about - still does exist, suggest that not only have you not been continuously colonised for thousands of years, but that you've probably colonised and absorbed some of your neighbours.

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Post by TMWNN »

TMWNN wrote: post #117
3qz wrote: post #4

Canada has an immigration rate 10x the rate of the US but any discussion of lowering this is considered racist. I have a top 5% income but I will never own a house in my life and can’t access a family doctor. We have way too many people! The population is expected to be 50% foreign born or children of immigrants by 2040 and it’s already majority foreign born in our biggest cities. I honestly don’t expect this country…

>can’t access a family doctor. To provide context to others, an amazingly high portion of Canadians don't have a family doctor https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/despite-more-doctors-many-cana... >. In Atlantic Canada (the four easternmost provinces) it is impossible, repeat *impossible*, to get a family doctor if you don't have one https://www.thetelegram.com/in-depth/doctor-shortage/what-we... >. It's one thing to have…

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