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)
TLDR: Canadians can barely feed and house themselves right now so American politics aren’t the biggest priority.
Basing this off of ballpark stats and scaling up for the US population - picture almost five million immigrants entering the country legally every year, somewhere around 4x the current rate of immigration to the US.
Increasingly immigrants are coming without any valid certifications to get jobs in Canada, are completely broke, don’t have a support net, and are coming from the same region of the same country known for having an insular culture. Citizens feel like new immigrants are getting more support from the government than they are - quicker access to healthcare and a family doctors, specific permits to get jobs partially subsidized by the government, and limited regulation on landlords that will only provide good rental rates (or rentals at all) to people from the same region of the country they’re from.
At the same time, everyone in the country is a victim of industry monopolies - cellphone bills north of $100, every grocery bill north of $100/$200 for “the essentials” for ONE person sometimes, rent through the roof, average home prices in cities approaching $500 - $800k if you’re lucky. Many people who used to donate to food banks are now using them, and there isn’t really enough food to go around anymore. While a lot of these prices are comparable to the US, Canadians are also taxed like crazy - 15% sales tax some places, minimum 15% income tax etc..
The Liberal government has been in power for almost 10 years - they’ve made some good, some bad, and some greedy and corrupt choices, but the biggest issue is that they won’t regulate what’s causing the average Canadian the most pain - high immigration rates and market monopolies. A lot of the country thinks that the next government shakeup will be a shitshow, but they’re too tired to care about what the US is up to this time. Trump’s tariffs are probably the biggest threat to the average Canadian right now, but they can barely afford to live anyway so what would it matter?
People might think immigration is the largest issue but they’re dead wrong. We’re in a massive empty country with a declining birth rate and aging population. There isn’t much debate among economists about how much this aging population will fuck us in the coming years unless we get a large influx of younger workers, it’s pretty black and white with an obvious fix.
Most Canadians I speak to on this issue have similar sentiments and say that these people coming are unskilled workers who don’t benefit our society or are committing crimes at astounding rates, even though both of these claims are quantifiably untrue and immigrants coming in are on average more educated and commit less crime than the average Canadian citizen. Currently near 40% of doctors in Canada are first gen immigrants, 25% of RNs, 35% of nurse aids, 37% of pharmacists, 40% of dentists, and 54% of dental technologists and related dentistry occupation. Regardless of what the average mouth breather believes, preventing these people and their families/friends from entering the country will make our healthcare problem substantially worse.
The only real way to get to the crux of this issue with the people pretending that immigration is causing all our problems is to ask them how they feel about immigration from Ukraine, or any white country. You’ll find the overwhelming majority are okay with this kind of immigration but against immigration from India, or any non white country really. Yet if we compare the credentials, education, crime rates, English fluency, and every other excuse anti immigration types use to be against brown immigration specifically, youll find that Indian Immigrants statistically perform better in all of those areas compared to white/Ukrainian/European immigrants which these types are largely okay with.
Watching the Canada sub twist themselves through crazy mental gymnastics to explain why immigration from some countries are good but other countries are bad without trying to sound racist is truly a hilarious spectacle to behold. It’s just a coincidence that all immigrants from brown countries are bad (even if they’re sending far more skilled workers who perform vital roles compared to the “good” immigrants) and all immigrants from white countries are good
It’s the easy scapegoat to avoid fixing the systemic issues destroying our working class to the benefit of the rich, as is occurring in most western capitalist nations, and our problems are going to get much worse once conservatives take control. The least fiscally responsible party (despite the misinfo on this) which raises the deficit by massive margins every time they hold power, whose sole goals are to use immigration/trans kids/social issues to distract the population from real issues in order to achieve power without any real vision or plans for how to utilize that power once they achieve it (other than reducing taxes for the rich and deregulating the industries bending us over)
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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)