05-19-2023, 07:10 PM
(05-14-2023, 05:47 PM)bravado Wrote: Immigration is the fundamental key to the vibrancy of the west - people wanting to move and contribute to your country is not a problem, it is an immense benefit that most of the world doesn't actually experience. It's one of our only secret weapons in global competition and we should be working as hard as possible to steal the best and brightest from across the world while we still can. Instead, we seem to be sticking most of them 20 to a house and saying job done now that our fast food shops are well staffed.
There are ways to handle immigration and growth responsibly, turning off the taps completely is not the answer.
I'm not intending to (nor do I want to) start a discussion on the net value of immigration. That wasn't my point at all.
The rest of your post seems to actually be in agreement with my argument, despite seemingly making this post in opposition. The immigrants living 20 to a house and working terrible jobs for criminal pay are still Canadians. This represents a marked decrease in the Canadian quality of life, just that significant portions of that decrease are the burden of new immigrants and relatively hidden from Canadian born citizens and immigrants from further back. That is, to reiterate my initial point, immigration can be (and I think is) used to mask a declining quality of life.