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Originally Posted by MolsonExport
Many (most? all?) of us are direct and indirect descendants of 'Fresh New Suckers' from 400, 300, 200, 100, 50, 25, etc. years ago.
Those Irish getting off the boat for quarantine at Grosse Ile din't have a pot to piss in, or a window to through it out of.
Weren't a modest number of European colonists those with...criminal records...back in the early days?
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True and this is one of the main arguments of open borders types who see the flow of people across international boundaries as something that should be unhindered and limitless.
Still, I am not sure this is a good plan for better lives in the future for us - or for a lot of the newcomers either. (Keeping in mind also that many of the Canadians of today are yesterday's newcomers from not that long ago.)
Another thing is that as a professor (of economics?) you should be aware that the backroom pressures to keep the intake extremely high are not entirely or even primarily altruistic.
They're actually blind to personal and societal outcomes, and almost entirely mercantile.