Immigration , not Climate Change is The Most Urgent Issue Facing Canada and the US

[Herman]

This was in the Sun newspaper chain. Justine has lost control of the of the immigration file. Jim Crow Joe has lost control of the Southern border.

I predict immigration is going to be one of the biggest issues of 2024 because so many other issues – housing, employment, per capita GDP, health care and school crowding are affected by it.

That means we will have to have an intelligent public debate about just how much immigration is the right amount. And that won't be easy, because anyone who dares say there is too much immigration can count on being labelled a racist or a xenophobe. You neither have to be a bigot nor fearful of foreigners to understand the math, though.

The fault for permitting far too many immigrants, too quickly, lies squarely with the Trudeau government. The Liberals' desire to show how "progressive" they are on immigration is straining our social services and putting Canadian quality of life at risk, and it is harming newcomers as much as it is existing Canadians.

During the period from July to September, Canada's population grew by nearly 431,000, the vast majority being immigrants from outside Canada. That means in just three months, the Liberals granted entry to newcomers equal to 1.2 per cent of the country's total population. That's headshaking.

The only time Canada exceeded that rate of population growth in a single three-month period was in the second quarter of 1957, when domestic births and immigration together equalled 1.3 per cent of the national population.

Back in 1957, the rapid growth was due more to the post-war baby boom among Canadians. Refugees from the Soviet invasion of Hungary made up a second, sizeable group.

That means the first big difference between now and 66 years ago is that much of the increase back then was natural, internal growth. Today it is mostly growth from outside Canada.

And the second big difference is that in 1957, Canada's social safety net was not yet so broad.

Governments didn't pay fully for health care and advanced education. Welfare and other benefits were not as generous. There was no expectation public funding would soothe every bump and ripple in life.

The great economist Milton Friedman once said that open immigration into a welfare state was a suicide pact. The Trudeau government seems intent of proving whether Friedman was right. On an annualized basis, after accounting for immigration, per capita GDP (the basis for our standard of living), fell more than four per cent between July and September.

[Lokmar]

The libs are not only at war with the white race, they are at war with the very idea of America and its Constitutional Freedoms. They should all die. I hope the traditionally liberal blacks continue to realize its their asses too!

[Oliver the Second]

 

That means we will have to have an intelligent public debate about just how much immigration is the right amount.

I can tell you that right now -

[DKG]

I am pro immigration. My parents are immigrants. Sustainable, orderly, and of course legal immigration is very beneficial to Canada. Immigration levels today are five times higher compared to Trudeau's predecessor, Stephen Harper.

Out of control immigration is causing people to die waiting for surgeries. It is the reason in major cities across the country that kids are in overflowing classrooms or are herded into cold portable classrooms in the middle of winter.

[formosan]

I don't believe there is an elected politician in Canada who would say out loud that too many immigrants and not climate change is a bigger threat to our way of life.

[Brent]

This was in the Sun newspaper chain. Justine has lost control of the of the immigration file. Jim Crow Joe has lost control of the Southern border.

I predict immigration is going to be one of the biggest issues of 2024 because so many other issues – housing, employment, per capita GDP, health care and school crowding are affected by it.

That means we will have to have an intelligent public debate about just how much immigration is the right amount. And that won't be easy, because anyone who dares say there is too much immigration can count on being labelled a racist or a xenophobe. You neither have to be a bigot nor fearful of foreigners to understand the math, though.

The fault for permitting far too many immigrants, too quickly, lies squarely with the Trudeau government. The Liberals' desire to show how "progressive" they are on immigration is straining our social services and putting Canadian quality of life at risk, and it is harming newcomers as much as it is existing Canadians.

During the period from July to September, Canada's population grew by nearly 431,000, the vast majority being immigrants from outside Canada. That means in just three months, the Liberals granted entry to newcomers equal to 1.2 per cent of the country's total population. That's headshaking.

The only time Canada exceeded that rate of population growth in a single three-month period was in the second quarter of 1957, when domestic births and immigration together equalled 1.3 per cent of the national population.

Back in 1957, the rapid growth was due more to the post-war baby boom among Canadians. Refugees from the Soviet invasion of Hungary made up a second, sizeable group.

That means the first big difference between now and 66 years ago is that much of the increase back then was natural, internal growth. Today it is mostly growth from outside Canada.

And the second big difference is that in 1957, Canada's social safety net was not yet so broad.

Governments didn't pay fully for health care and advanced education. Welfare and other benefits were not as generous. There was no expectation public funding would soothe every bump and ripple in life.

The great economist Milton Friedman once said that open immigration into a welfare state was a suicide pact. The Trudeau government seems intent of proving whether Friedman was right. On an annualized basis, after accounting for immigration, per capita GDP (the basis for our standard of living), fell more than four per cent between July and September.

There is no bigger issue affecting working class Canadians' lives that the burden placed on us by mass immigration. But, no party in parliament will even mention it.

[Thiel]

I don't believe there is an elected politician in Canada who would say out loud that too many immigrants and not climate change is a bigger threat to our way of life.

That would be the end of their career in public office.

[Herman]

There is no bigger issue affecting working class Canadians' lives that the burden placed on us by mass immigration. But, no party in parliament will even mention it.

The green extremist shit is pretty hard on the lives of working folks too.

[Brent]

The green extremist shit is pretty hard on the lives of working folks too.

We know and so do elitist progs like Trudeau.

[Herman]

We know and so do elitist progs like Trudeau.

That is why they do it.

[Oliver the Second]

All immigration should be shut down until you have the infrastructure needed to support it. If you're going to bring in half a million immigrants then you need to go somewhere and build a city capable of holding half a million people. Continuing to stuff more and more people into already over-crowded cities will improve nothing and only make things worse.

[Brent]

All immigration should be shut down until you have the infrastructure needed to support it. If you're going to bring in half a million immigrants then you need to go somewhere and build a city capable of holding half a million people. Continuing to stuff more and more people into already over-crowded cities will improve nothing and only make things worse.

We have a winner. 

[DKG]

I can't believe I am saying this, but immigration is now one of the top problems facing Canada. Until very recently, I beleived it was one of the things we did very well.


Liberal immigration policy sabotaging Liberal housing policy
Everyone in the Liberal government is saying something has to be done about the immigration policies it created that have contributed to today's affordable housing crisis

Federal Housing Minister Sean Fraser's year-end announcement in an interview with The Canadian Press that the Trudeau government will unveil a "renewed" housing plan in 2024 raises the question of what happened to all of its previous housing plans?

The Liberals have been coming up with new housing plans ever since the 2015 election that brought them to power.

In 2017, they announced their National Housing Strategy – originally a 10-year, $40-billion plan which has since grown to more than $82 billion, slated to run until March 2028, "to give more Canadians a place to call home."

The problem is their immigration policies are undermining their housing policies, presumably one of the things their latest "renewed" housing plan is intended to address, in another example of the Liberals announcing new plans to fix problems caused by their previous plans.

When Fraser was immigration minister last year, he proudly announced the Liberals' "ambitious" plan to boost Canada's annual immigration targets to 465,000 permanent residents this year, 485,000 in 2024 and 500,000 in 2025, thus putting enormous pressure on Canada's housing market and undermining housing affordability.

The Liberals have since announced their target for 2026 will be another 500,000 permanent residents, compared to 242,000 when the Liberals came to power in 2015.

Canada will also accept a record 900,000 international students this year compared to 312,000 in 2015, according to current Immigration Minister Marc Miller.

Now add to that the fact Canada admitted 220,000 temporary foreign workers last year, an increase of 68% compared to 2021, according to a Globe and Mail analysis of federal data.

The cumulative result of these policies, as Statistics Canada reported earlier this month, is that, "Canada's population was estimated at 40,528,396 on Oct. 1, 2023, an increase of 430,635 people (+1.1%) from July 1 ... the highest population growth rate in any quarter since the second quarter of 1957 (+1.2%), when Canada's population grew by 198,000 people ...

"Canada's total population growth for the first nine months of 2023 (+1,030,378 people) had already exceeded the total growth for any other full-year period since Confederation in 1867, including 2022, when there was a record growth."

Now, everyone in the Liberal government from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on down is saying something has to be done about the immigration policies it created that have contributed to today's affordable housing crisis.

But the Liberals are focusing on abuses in the international student and temporary worker programs, rather than their dramatic increases to Canada's immigration levels.

On that issue, the Liberals insist, Canada needs more immigrants to build more housing, because, as Miller put it in August, "Without those skilled workers coming from outside Canada, we absolutely cannot build the homes and meet the demand that exists currently today."

But numerous critics have pointed out the logical fallacy with this argument.

As the TD Bank warned: "Continuing with a high-growth immigration strategy could widen the housing shortfall by about a half-million units within just two years. Recent government policies to accelerate construction are unlikely to offer a stop-gap due to the short time period and the natural lags in adjusting supply."

The National Bank of Canada cautioned: "The federal government's decision to open the immigration floodgates during the most aggressive monetary tightening cycle in a generation has created a record imbalance between housing and demand ... As housing affordability pressures continue to mount across the country, we believe Ottawa should consider revising its immigration targets to allow supply to catch up with demand."

BMO (Bank of Montreal) reported, "Heightened immigration flows designed to ease labour supply pressure immediately add to the housing demand they are trying to meet ... The infrastructure in place and the industry's ability to build clearly can't support unchecked levels of demand, so the affordability conundrum continues."

Deputy Bank of Canada governor Toni Gravelle noted in a recent speech, as reported by The Canadian Press, that, "this jump in demographic demand coupled with the existing structural supply issues could explain why rent inflation continues to climb in Canada. It also helps explain, in part, why housing prices have not fallen as much as we had expected."

To be sure, Canada's affordable housing shortage isn't solely attributable to federal immigration policy – high interest rates are another factor along with the impact of provincial and municipal housing policies.

Long term, the Trudeau government argues, Canada needs high immigration levels to provide the workers of the future, due to low domestic birth rates.

But that said, and as the Trudeau government continues to announce new deals with municipalities to build more housing, remember their current high immigration polices are undermining those efforts.
https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/goldstein-liberal-immigration-policy-sabotaging-liberal-housing-policy

[Lokmar]

I can't believe I am saying this, but immigration is now one of the top problems facing Canada. Until very recently, I beleived it was one of the things we did very well.

I havent been able to figure out if the ultimate goal is to homogenize the world population, eliminate all ethnicity, destroy Western Civilization, or something else I havent thought of.

One thing I am certain of though is we are all slaves.

[DKG]

I havent been able to figure out if the ultimate goal is to homogenize the world population, eliminate all ethnicity, destroy Western Civilization, or something else I havent thought of.

One thing I am certain of though is we are all slaves.

In the case of Justin Trudeau, it's not quite that sinister. You see, our pm has the economic depth of a finger bowl. More people consuming artificially glosses over Canada's economic decline on his watch. It really is that simple as our pm really is that simplistic.

Do you know his predecessor was a respected economist. Stephen Harper was also a mensa member.