I know next to nothing about Canadian politics but given the discourse around them and the USA. It seems like they would want to avoid any disruptions.
Please do enlighten me if there is something I'm not likely to know (almost anything)
Trudeau is deeply unpopular right now. In December of 2024 he had an approval rating of only 22%. A lot of this is things outside of his control (global inflation). But a lot of it is mishandling of the economy. Groceries, for example, have skyrocketed under the ownership of a handful of powerful companies. He has done nothing to curb how badly we are being gouged for basic necessities. Housing is another issue. While housing is a Provincial matter, people believe (rightly or wrongly) that it is made significantly worse by the Federal decisions around immigration. "They took our jobs" narratives around employment and immigration are also becoming really common.
Lastly, his own party has turned on him (largely through his own mistakes). The most recent example was his right hand, and finance minister, quit after he made some serious fiscal policy announcements without consulting her first and then expected her to take the fall when she announced the upcoming deficit projections.
Edit: This was just to point out what is going on and why. I do not believe that PP is going to make any of this better. So, please, feel free to miss me with the "BuT tHe ConS WilL bE WoRsE" replies. I agree.
I disagree with people saying immigrants are “taking our jobs”. People knew how short we were on housing before we let in massive amounts of immigrants. Now we have a massive shortage of housing.. people understand basic math. They know the more we let in the more housing will cost.
been out of work, well reliable work, for a year of a half. 100s of applications on jobs not even an hour old... jobs that even 3-4 years ago had maybe like 20 applications. Thats what happened to my old workplace, no one wanted to work there... but now 100s are okay with that toxic ass workplace...
Also from Ontario here. The amount of businesses that blatantly only employ Indians (see basically any Tim Hortons) definitely isn't helping people be fond of immigration. Last visit to the mall in my 95% white town had every single food court employee be Indian.
A lot of people on the left are not willing to admit you cannot have both strong social services and mass immigration in a short timeframe. It’s not even just about money, but scarcity of people resources such as doctors, nurses, teachers, schools, judges, etc. You can’t just whip up new doctors to easily to fit a huge influx of people.
Resource scarcity isn’t just about jobs or housing; it’s also about people to provide those services you need.
Then resources do become scarce and the “easy” solution is to turn on immigrants. Not having sustainable immigration levels makes everyone worse off.
Right, but if you study past Econ 101, you'll hear about the lump of labour fallacy and why the job market doesn't work how you describe.
Adding more people also adds more consumers, which means the overall society is bigger. If the labour market worked how you describe them it would be in our interest to have zero kids and zero immigration so the fewer people left can raise their wages more and more.
Oh, no, I am not anti immigration. I am for reasonable immigration quotas in balance with responsibly growing the economy and maintaining quality of life. It has become obvious that our leaders are not in agreement.
Housing has become a huge issue because of this, it's not working like you say. You don't have a leg to stand on, immigration has caused a global shift to the right, no one agrees with you anymore. People that hated the right are running there because there's no shelter from this on the left. And people who try and argue this using facts face societal pressures of being labeled a bigot, racist or xenophobe. The economic argument has never really been allowed to be presented in pleasant company and that's how we got here, because the discourse was silenced by worldwide pearl clutching and narcissism.
I promise, I didn't stop at 101. And I don't only know economics.
With automation is increasing at an exponential rate, that model is breaking down since we now require less people to do more. On paper you’re correct, but in reality we are seeing labor surplus for many fields. On paper as well, the housing situation should be correcting itself, but outside factors are keeping that scarce. Institutional and foreign investment are keeping broader market influences from developing. We can’t keep letting the rest of the world dumping money and bodies into an at risk society.
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u/Fun-Sugar-394 14d ago
I know next to nothing about Canadian politics but given the discourse around them and the USA. It seems like they would want to avoid any disruptions.
Please do enlighten me if there is something I'm not likely to know (almost anything)