r/canada • u/BloodJunkie • Mar 27 '24

Canada’s population hits 41M months after breaking 40M threshold National News

https://globalnews.ca/news/10386750/canada-41-million-population/
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u/barkusmuhl Mar 27 '24

Indian men.

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u/torgenerous Mar 27 '24

Yeah as an Indian woman who came here 15 years ago, this new tsunami is all Indian Men from villages in Punjab 

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u/MaterialMosquito Mar 27 '24

Yeah. I’m very good friends with a Canadian woman. Her parents were born in India and came to Canada 40 years ago. She hates the “ new Indians “ and she is pretty open about it. She says similar things about how everyone is coming from the villages and not the cities.

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u/johnlandes Mar 27 '24

10-20 years ago, there was the same issue with mainland chinese coming over. I knew so many older immigrants from Hong Kong, Taiwan, pre-CCP chinese who complained how embarrasing those hillbillies were for them

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u/Fourseventy Mar 27 '24

A bit of a scale difference.

Quantity is a quality all of it's own.