In the past year, Canada’s immigration rate has experienced a dramatic reversal. We explain how it happened.
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Fucking Trudeau
A lot of our immigration was from student visas. And a lot of student visas were being abused, both to bring in cheap labour and to prop up diploma mills.
The government stepped in to protect domestic labour and the reputation of Canadian higher education institutions (education being one of our largest export markets)
Don’t forget housing… When you have 5-10 students sharing the rent on an overpriced home then landlords can charge much more. Low interest rates and massive immigration both inflated the hell out of property even more than it normally would have without them.
There was a policy decision around 30 years ago to deregulate tuition and cut funding to universities. Part of the arrangement was allowing massive differential fees for foreign students. So they have been propping up most universities, not just the diploma mills.
I really don’t have an issue with student visas for actual students pursuing actual degrees from reputable universities. They are as close to printing free money as a country can get and it’s really only a benefit for us as a nation.
The problem is the people leaving are the highly talented and valuable people economically speaking. The people that are staying are the low income low skill people who do not substantially increase our GDP per capita and in fact lower it
This is going to be more and more of a problem.
Any citations?
You mean other than the ones you were already giving you sea lion? LOL
Either make a counter argument or admit that I’m right even if you don’t like it. This kind of nonsense just makes you look bad
This was one of the key points in the video. Their source is a TD Economics report, which in turn references a report from The Institute for Canadian Citizensihp:
The Institute for Canadian Citizenship’s Leaky Bucket 2025 report shows that onward migration is highest among immigrants with doctoral degrees, strong earnings potential, and experience in management, ICT, engineering, and science based occupations. Within five years of entering Canada, highly educated immigrants are more than twice as likely to leave as lower skilled immigrants.
But… That’s fine? We would expect them to? They came here for education. That’s not skilled immigrants leaving, it’s customers going home with what they paid for
The skilled people are Citizens and PRs going to work in the US because the same jobs in Canada pay half as much with much higher taxes.
That’s over now. Who wants to get a pricy Canadian degree just to go get rounded-up in America and maybe killed in the gulags?
We’re still the most educated country on Earth by a good margin, so it’s hard to see it getting that bad.
But yes, our immigration system is fucked. We select for all the best and brightest people, and then put them to work at Tim Hortons.
Unfortunately being educated is not in and of itself a protection from that kind of thing. As is easily seen by a cursory examination of the statistics. Our talented people are leaving and that is a major problem and worse Now intelligent people are just using Canada as a stepping stone with the intent of leaving shortly after they get here because it’s easier to get into countries like America from Canada than it is from some of the countries they come from.
Either way we’re getting slaughtered
It always surprises me when I see the stats. We really do have a lot of degrees per cappita
You could argue the brain drain has been going on since the late 50s
You could but not successfully 😁 Joking aside though there have been other instances of brain drains taking place in the past. I think to suggest that there’s been a consistent brain drain for that. Of time would be severely erroneous and there are definitely been times when we attracted people to Canada. But this is definitely one of the worst and we are seeing people leave for the record percent of them being exactly the kind of people we want to stay
And it shows up in a lot of stats. Our GDP per capita is horrible and that’s one of the reasons, our investments climate is cored, etc etc. We have to find a way to reverse that and quickly
Maybe all the immigrants finally started to recognize the lies they were being told about living here being a comfortable family dream when it’s actually unaffordable, inhumane and degrading wage-slavery. It’s not much better for the average Canadian either, but at least most of us have some kind of family support system to fall back on, and we have the entire time we spend growing up here to come to terms with the reality of the lies that the economy and media sell us, instead of getting thrown into the deep end of this unfair economy like the immigrants do. No wonder so many of them turn to crime.
I’m gonna need sources for all that bunk you’ve written. It sounds very War Room.
It sure sounds like you have never lived anywhere else in your life, certainly not anywhere in the developing world. It’s hard to conceive how much worse life is in a lot of places, unless you have lived there. Granted that people who can afford international student fees are in the upper class of most poor countries, but it doesn’t take away from the very real increase in the standard of living.
No wonder so many of them turn to crime.
I agreed with you until this point. What percentage of them “turn to crime”? Is that percentage higher than non-immigrants? My guess is that it’s a negligible fraction.
Sorry, I let my frustration turn to sarcasm and leak out, I don’t actually believe immigrants have any meaningful impact on crime other than what the news likes to cherry pick. I apologise for the poor taste of that.
I appreciate you saying that. It’s all good.
It may actually bring crime down, but certainly the statistics don’t bear out immigration causing increased crime rates.
https://www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/channels/news/does-immigration-really-increase-crime-347099
It’s a growing misperception is what it is.
I mean, unless thay immigrated from Iceland or something, it’s still going to be an improvement. The trick is that they’re now at the bottom of the food chain, where often they were at the top, where they came from.
You might want to sanitize the link. Your real identity is leaking.
