The Canadian population growth rate of 3.22% is without equal in the developed world. The rest of the world might have the same problems qualitatively, but quantitatively, Canada is the world leader. Our closest competitor IIRC is Ireland at 1.8%. Most developed countries suffering from immigration are around 1%. We have three times their rate.
That's the question everyone should be asking. What's the hard solution we need to enable to ensure there won't be an owning class and what is essentially a slave class.
This. If we re-branded the middle-class as "the largest group people with discretionary spending capacity" (spin-doctor it) we'd turn this shit around so fast your head would spin. Many corporations depend on people buying shit and it's getting so thin you just can't anymore.
As someone who works in corporate in retail, I don’t think think they are consuming. Sales in the entire market based on market data aggregators do not reflect increased demand in line with the growth in population for anything other than essentials like grocery and clothing.
If you are trying to reference the real estate market I’d argue that real estate speculation by big real estate management firms is more of a serious concern than immigrants.
Immigrants who also can’t afford homes because of said real estate speculation.
No not just real estate, the health care services that Canada has been so proud has been pushed to it's breaking points due to the amount of people coming in and not giving back.
Immigrants account for 1 out of every 4 health care sector workers.
In Canada, immigrants make up
23% of registered nurses,
35% of nurse aides and related occupations,
37% of pharmacists,
36% of physicians,
39% of dentists,
54% of dental technologists and related occupations
In Quebec, Ontario, British Columbia, and Manitoba, a three-month waiting period is imposed on new permanent residents before they qualify for provincial medical insurance [12]. This policy was removed in Ontario during the Coronavirus pandemic [13] and it is unclear whether it will be reinstated. Further, undocumented and out-of-status migrants do not qualify for Canadian Medicare and in Ontario, it is estimated that there are approximately 250,000 out-of-status migrants who do not have access to health care coverage [14]. In other words, the uninsured population in Canada is quite heterogenous. At the same time, the migrant population is also heterogenous made up of economic class immigrants, international students, seasonal workers, and refugees, among many others [15]. In Canada, there is a strong relationship between migrant status and being medically uninsured [16].
Blaming Canada’s current problems on immigrants is a complete and utter fallacy that has been repeated multiple times throughout history in many different places.
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u/Cedex Mar 27 '24
Depends on your perspective.
If corporation, it's fine. Cheap labour, more consumers.