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I worry anything like this would be a gateway to other anti-immigrant sentiment. Immigrants are good for the economy everywhere in the first world, it's just that they're also highly unpopular most places, and I'd like to keep our advantage in tolerance.
Of course they are both good and very much needed. So knowing that, lets fucking build the housing infrastructure to support them first.
You don't start spraying water in your backyard before the pool has been built....
My worry is that there's so much NIMBYism against building housing so that if we slow down immigration for housing to catch-up then with the lower urgency we'll just not build.
Good, then maybe the government will have a sense of urgency dealing with NIMBYs.
Agreed. We need doctors and construction workers, but for some reason executives are still at the top of the priority list for express entry (assuming I read that morass correctly).
From article, it looks like it's on the mind of the party leaders too, just in a bit of a weird way
Wow, things you don't expect to hear from a conservative. If this was the version of Poilievre we got all the time I'd relax a bit, but he also goes the other way and hangs out with loonies sometimes.
Pretty much yep
No they aren't, not for the common worker.
Mixed bag really. Increased labour supply drives down wages, but you also need people to do all the work and we have an aging population. Also need a tax base to fund our social services.
Immigrants also buy stuff, creating more jobs, so actually the demographic benefits are the main effect. If you think about it, there's always one worker per worker.
Plus, I'd like to point out immigrants are people too and their opinion matters. The debate about this gets so dehumanising.
Yes, they are.