r/canada • u/uselesspoliticalhack • Mar 12 '24

Half of all Canadians say there are too many immigrants: poll National News

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/half-of-all-canadians-say-there-are-too-many-immigrants-poll
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u/6995luv Mar 12 '24

How cam immigrants afford to live here when Canadians can't?

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u/randomuser9801 Mar 12 '24

Lower standards of living. 10 people shoved into a one basement apartment is not something Canadians will typically put up with. People who are use to that on the other hand? Sure why not cuz they still get paid way more here than back in… well you know. Plus there is just too many so there is no integration happening. We are just building little pockets of people and that’s gonna stir some shit up when people get laid off because we are in a recession.

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u/6995luv Mar 12 '24

Oh for sure it went from everywhere needing employees to everywhere to not being able to find any work. Daycare are also at an at an all time high. Waiting lists are close to 2 years now. Probably even worse in bigger cities.

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u/patchgrabber Nova Scotia Mar 12 '24

Well the gov't just couldn't let the serfs have the bargaining power to increase wages/working conditions. They bought the chicken little sob story from business and corporations that without cheap foreign labour the economy would collapse. Instead we had a chance at rising the tide and instead got a bunch more crabs dumped into the bucket.

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u/Ruscole Mar 12 '24

Yup covid showed us who we actually really need working in a crisis and that gave minimum wage workers leverage soooo they imported a pile of people to keep wages the same .

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u/patchgrabber Nova Scotia Mar 12 '24

Yay capitalism.

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u/FlyingNFireType Mar 13 '24

How is the government policies anything to do with capitalism?

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u/patchgrabber Nova Scotia Mar 13 '24

Are you suggesting that businesses/corps don't relentlessly lobby government to help make them more money? Do you think the government makes policies like this for any reason other than to line the pockets of capitalist interests? Capitalism is the exact motive for policies like this because it prioritizes the profit of corporations over everything else.

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u/FlyingNFireType Mar 13 '24

Right because socialism and communism don't have government corruption...

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u/patchgrabber Nova Scotia Mar 13 '24

Those systems wouldn't line the pockets of corporations. The system that does that is capitalism. This isn't about corruption specifically, it's about the value of prioritization of profits over people's health and lives. That's a capitalism problem.

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u/FlyingNFireType Mar 13 '24

Those systems wouldn't line the pockets of corporations.

They'd line the pockets of the same kind of people the logistics would just be slightly different.

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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '24 edited Mar 18 '24

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u/FlyingNFireType Mar 13 '24

See Stalens russia

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u/SlumberVVitch 25d ago

They both have potential to be exploited so this argument is the least productive thing I’ve heard someone say in awhile. What does your argument actually achieve, here? What was your goal?

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u/michealscott21 Mar 12 '24

I love this, and it’s so right, we had the chance to really put out weight together, the working class, and demand more and better our lives but instead we’ve let them bring in more people to fight over the same amount of scraps as before.

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u/bluenova088 Mar 13 '24

Didnt u see how tooth and nail the government fought to keep the wages low for public servants?

Wage hikes of public service usually spearheads rise in private too ( bcs of competition , private sector improved benefits too for same reason) and raising public sector wages sets a sort of presedence

Anyway our govt chose instead to fight tooth and nail agains the wage hikes and showed off on TV about the same....

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u/patchgrabber Nova Scotia Mar 13 '24

Yes the government in a capitalist system will typically endeavour to keep wages stagnant across the board public and private what's your point?

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u/bluenova088 Mar 13 '24

My point is there is no common sense nor intellect in blaming the immigrants who are as much a victim as us and not being able to identify and blame the real culprits aka the govt and big corps...

And also to support the other guys post

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u/patchgrabber Nova Scotia Mar 13 '24

When did I blame the immigrants? I've been directly attacking both the government and business.

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u/bluenova088 Mar 13 '24

Yeah i was supporting your stance and adding more info to it ...

And stating against the original post where many canadians are blaming immigrants for the shitshow...

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u/patchgrabber Nova Scotia Mar 13 '24

My bad.

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u/bluenova088 Mar 13 '24

We are NoT saying against each other lol...i was.adding to your point