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This looks like another very sad vote-getting scheme which, as is generally the case when addressing immigration issues, does not deal with reality. We have able young people all across the country who find it more profitable to pan-handle or become squeedgie kids than to work, squatting on public or private property, and we supposedly have a shortage of people to do lower skill work like construction. Then we have the large numbers of skilled immigrants who went through hell to immigrate legally but cannot get their credentials recognized and have various barriers to being integrated into the work force and putting their full skills to use. Many immigrants are bringing in their aging parents and grandparents, burdening our health care and old age benefit systems, and making a farce of the supposed argument that Canada needs immigrants due to its aging demographics. And we have to realize that we as citizens in this country own land and resources that are worth a lot, but we are handing away our equity share in these to strangers who do not even share our culture and in some cases may not even be interested in sharing our culture. **Note that most of the original immigrants to this country came with the expectation of no government funded social benefits of any kind, and the prospects of nothing but back-breaking work as pioneers.
What the government needs to do is fix the immigration system so that its bureaucracy functions in screening people efficiently and not making honest, skilled people go through hell in the process or trying to get work after they arrive. Increasing immigration when the system already is a failure is a disaster. The government needs to lower taxes and raise the bar on immigrants so that those who come arrive with expectations that they can be rewarded from an economic standpoint for innovation and hard work, and not merely by social programs subsidized by others that exceed anything they would get in their countries of origin.
What do Canadians need to do? Stop treating immigration as some sort of issue where if we do anything to make it work efficiently to the benefit of Canadian citizens, we are labelled as some sort of rednecks. More accurately, in the universe of government immigration systems, we are a bunch of chumps with a system that fails everyone, including applicants, in being fair. |
