Posted Dec 19, 2023, 5:59 PM
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hähnchenbrüstfiletstüc
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Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Vancouver
Posts: 35,304
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I keep seeing debates or media comments about how immigration level X is okay or we need to build Y housing units. But then the actual numbers keep blowing past those old talking points again and again. This new rate is well over 1 million annualized.
A feature of Canadian politics was the people who were just pro-immigration and anti-anti-immigration without any sense of the numbers or constraints around housing and the economy. They believe immigration is positive and don't like the right wing nationalist or nativist sentiments. That is fine but you still need to have some sense of your country's capacity and due to existing development disparities any open border will generate flows exceeding that capacity, lowering the standard of living. At the far left there are some people saying we shouldn't have borders at all, and they don't seem to respond to actual world events like rents spiking in Canada or migration issues in Europe (it's all because capitalism I guess; so the plan is step (1) remove all borders, step (2) eliminate all capitalism, ... , step (7) profit).
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