An open society, Canada’s best response to immigration
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An open society, Canada’s best response to immigration
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Re: An open society, Canada’s best response to immigration
#2I know the author. Good guy. Level headed and data driven. I found it to be an interesting read.
He says he's been getting lots of interesting emails since this piece.
Edit: A little more context: this was in response to some other right-leaning piece (if you read the comments on the article you can see references to that).
Re: An open society, Canada’s best response to immigration
#3I think history has shown many times that generally open societies are good for both the economy and for future strength of the country. It is nice to see a well reasoned analysis of specific applications in Canada.
Re: An open society, Canada’s best response to immigration
#4> resettling more refugees than any other country in the world
> Since 2017, approximately 150,000 asylum seekers have claimed protection
This is pretty low number. Many countries took millions of refugees.
Re: An open society, Canada’s best response to immigration
#5> resettling more refugees than any other country in the world > Since 2017, approximately 150,000 asylum seekers have claimed protection This is pretty low number. Many countries took millions of refugees.
australia's yearly intake until recently for around a decade has been more than that.
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#6As an immigrant in Canada (normal process, not refugee) I can say the process is fair, especially compared to other countries (see neighbor). The requirement on language makes sense and also the minimum amount of savings and no dangerous disease. Basically you are set to successfully start out.
Just talking about my experience, but after living in other 3 countries, the openness of Canadians to immigrants and the culture that they bring in is astonishing. This is probably why everyone I know that immigrated to Canada had respect for the country from the start. Cannot say the same for most other countries.
I feel like the fast (at least in immigration terms) response that the Canadian government gives speeds up the integration and lowers worry about future uncertainty.
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#7> resettling more refugees than any other country in the world > Since 2017, approximately 150,000 asylum seekers have claimed protection This is pretty low number. Many countries took millions of refugees.
> Canada took in 28,100 of 92,400 refugees who were resettled in 25 countries last year
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-resettled-most-refug...
Do you have a source for many countries taking in millions?
Re: An open society, Canada’s best response to immigration
#8On paper Canada is near perfect. But in practice it is a country that is suffering so much from having to maintain continent size infrastructure on the tax base that would match a very small European country that the only way they are going to solve this long term without reducing the size of their territory or falling apart is to import very large numbers of people and hope to integrate them.
So far they are quite successful in the first and not so successful in the second. But on paper they excel at both.
If you want to see this strategy fail try to move to some small town outside of the top 5 and see how well that integration works in practice.
Re: An open society, Canada’s best response to immigration
#9As an immigrant in Canada (normal process, not refugee) I can say the process is fair, especially compared to other countries (see neighbor). The requirement on language makes sense and also the minimum amount of savings and no dangerous disease. Basically you are set to successfully start out. Just talking about my experience, but after living in other 3 countries, the openness of Canadians to immigrants and the cul…
Are you in one of the major cities?
Re: An open society, Canada’s best response to immigration
#10Certain people are always pushing fears about immigrants but the actual experience of big immigrant nations like Australia (30% foreign born) and Canada (25%) show that immigration, including large influxes of refugees, doesn't cause social or economic problems.