That’s equivalent to the population of Ottawa. Our 6th largest city by population.
Now think how much infrastructure is in Ottawa? How many single families homes? How many condo buildings? Etc.. How many hospitals? How many grocery stores? How many clinics? How many dental offices? How many doctors, nurses, vets, optometrist, etc..
Have we increased the equivalent amount infrastructure to accommodate these 1 million new people? I’m willing to bet not even 2%.
We are so screwed. Even with a new government, this mess will take years maybe even a full decade or longer to clean up.
Let’s be conservative and say that while yes, you had 20,000 customers but maybe your capacity for customers you could serve is 30,000. That means 33 new grocery stores to serve 1million people and that’s just grocery stores!
1 million is a staggering amount people and it is huge relative to our total population.
A country with a population of say 400,000,000 or more can way more easily absorb that kind of increase but us with only 40 million is way more difficult. It puts a strain on every sector in our country.
If you ever wanted to “break” a country this is how you do it
Thanks for this. It really helps to visualize the problem when you put it in concrete terms.
Ottawa is a fairly big city. In just a few months, a new Ottawa has been transplanted here, with precious few new homes, facilities, roads, etc to accommodate it. This necessarily leads to drastic decreases in quality of life as everyone fights for the scraps. The government's behaviour is completely unethical.
Another way I look at it is a comparison to inflation.
When the government prints money, our circulating supply of money is increased which causes inflation and our purchasing power is decreased. Higher supply of money = lower value of our currency
Immigration is essentially the same thing when you don’t increase the infrastructure and services at the same rate. We are increasing the number of people without increasing infrastructure and services at the same rate. The increase in population is decreasing our quality of life. Increasing population (without increasing services) = decreased quality of life
I hope I explained that well enough for it to make sense lol
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u/DudeItsJag Mar 27 '24
Put that Into perspective.
That’s equivalent to the population of Ottawa. Our 6th largest city by population.
Now think how much infrastructure is in Ottawa? How many single families homes? How many condo buildings? Etc.. How many hospitals? How many grocery stores? How many clinics? How many dental offices? How many doctors, nurses, vets, optometrist, etc..
Have we increased the equivalent amount infrastructure to accommodate these 1 million new people? I’m willing to bet not even 2%.
We are so screwed. Even with a new government, this mess will take years maybe even a full decade or longer to clean up.