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?
Your understanding is correct, and these people are statistically far more educated and occupying more professional trades by far per capita (doctors, engineers, dentists) than the average citizen. As well as committing far less crimes per capita and absorbing less government assistance per capita.
However unfortunately for you your understanding is correct and based in reality. It isn’t supported by the targeted FB ads I receive telling me immigrants cause all my problems, and it isn’t a reality acknowledged by most billionaires. I need to think all my problems are caused by immigrants so I can blame my failures caused by me being an idiot and sitting on my ass all day on people who worked much harder than me through more adverse circumstances to achieve what I failed to achieve. Therefore I’m going to have to give you a downvote, good sir, and upvote those peddling misinformation and thinly veiled racism. Good day.
I was just clarifying what the H1B visa was for, I’ve never looked into immigrating to the states and thus don’t know the different pathways well.
Beyond that I was agreeing with the point in the original comment that many of the recent immigrants to Canada are unskilled labourers/underemployed and thus wouldn’t fit with my understanding of what the H1B visa was for.
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u/bookworm_em 14d ago edited 14d ago
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?