Chinese are big customers for schemes selling foreign residency

Post by andy_bandy » Tue, Jul 23, 2019, 5:57 PM UTC

msie wrote: post #113

andy_bandy wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They don't pay income tax. In a country with free medicare and cheap post-secondary education, and many other low income benefits this is a massive problem. "nine of 10 recent Chinese immigrants arrive in Metro Vancouver with enough money to immediately buy homes. But only half hold down jobs during their first five years in Canada, while four of 10 report they’re surviving on low incomes." https://vancouversun.com/o…

You are publishing opinion pieces from Douglas Todd, who is a syndicated conservative author who doesn’t like immigration. I wouldn’t take his articles at face value.

Post by jbay808 » Tue, Jul 23, 2019, 7:27 PM UTC

barry-cotter wrote: post #105

Tiktaalik wrote: post #4

> But Canada closed its federal programme in 2014 (some provincial schemes, such as Quebec’s, continue). Only mentioned as an aside, but for Vancouverites, this has been very painful. Uniquely Quebec manages its own immigration (let's not get into it) and they have an investor immigration scheme that essentially sells citizenship for a pittance. Of course since persons have freedom of movement there's nothing stoppin…

> Uniquely Quebec manages its own immigration That Quebec is the only province that avails itself of the opportunity to attract immigrants to itself rather than relying on the federal government is to its credit. If the Anglophone provinces don’t feel like exercising the powers they and Quebec share that’s their problem, not Quebec’s.

Post by andy_bandy » Fri, Aug 02, 2019, 11:05 PM UTC

mistermann wrote: post #95

andy_bandy wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They don't pay income tax. In a country with free medicare and cheap post-secondary education, and many other low income benefits this is a massive problem. "nine of 10 recent Chinese immigrants arrive in Metro Vancouver with enough money to immediately buy homes. But only half hold down jobs during their first five years in Canada, while four of 10 report they’re surviving on low incomes." https://vancouversun.com/o…

> But only half hold down jobs during their first five years I wonder how long it will be before the government decides to change their data format so immigrant employment numbers can no longer be associated with country of origin, under the guise of "privacy" or something like that.