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Okay, so I wrote this as a reply yesterday, but figured it was worth cleaning up as a post since more people might see it. Sorry if it's a bit rambling – my laptop's dead and I'm stuck typing on my phone.
Basically, Canada's in a mess for a few reasons:
It's run by a handful of super-rich families – maybe a dozen – who pretend we're a real democracy. Seriously, just one or two billionaires control huge chunks of essential industries in each province. Think Patterson in BC, the Richardsons in the Prairies, the Irvings on the East Coast, the Westons with groceries, Rogers and Shaw with telecom, you get the idea. We've got a two-party system, but both Liberals and Conservatives work for these families. For 30+ years, they've just swapped places whenever people get mad, but every government just keeps expanding the same exploitative stuff, no matter what they say they believe. I'll get to why later.
Right now, our economy is totally hooked on a housing and consumer debt bubble. It's what drives our GDP and "wealth," and it's one of the biggest bubbles in the developed world. Otherwise, we're stagnant. Lots of people make crap wages, but hey, they bought a house 20 years ago and now it magically earns $100k a year! So they can take out a HELOC loan and live large. Wages haven't budged in decades, but the house I grew up in went from $60k to $1.2 million in 25 years, with no improvements. And it's in a tiny, dying town that just has tourism and logging. The government won't fix it because they're making money off it and because a housing crash would nuke the whole economy.
See the problem?
Our population is aging fast, but nobody's having kids because it's too expensive to live here. This threatens the sacred "Growth Economics." If the economy stalls, those rich families start losing money. Our pensions and other services could go bust. So the "solution" is either tell the boomers to get lost (which is politically impossible) or pump up the population to fake GDP growth.
During the pandemic, we finally saw wages go up a bit because there weren't enough workers.
The federal government's answer? Mass immigration, no matter the cost. They want to crush wages and keep rents and housing prices sky-high. A one-bedroom in Vancouver was like $800 a month in 2016. Now it's $2900. Rents outside the city aren't much cheaper, but the jobs are way worse, so it's even harder to afford things.
The feds have upped immigration to between 1.45 and 2.2 million people a year, counting students, temporary workers, and refugees. That's one of the highest rates per capita in the world, way more than the US. Most aren't even skilled immigrants anymore. We're just importing cheap labor from developing countries. This is killing our healthcare system because we don't recognize foreign medical degrees and protect domestic wages by only letting a few people graduate med school each year. Last year, the government scrapped work restrictions for international students (800k of them!), loosened rules for temporary foreign workers (adding six figures!), all to suppress wages. They're handing out visas to tech workers and skilled trades just to kill wage negotiation power.
It's great PR to say Canada "welcomes" refugees, but it's not humane. Over 40% of homeless shelter users in Toronto are refugees who were brought here and then dumped on the streets with no support after a few months of payments. The goal isn't humanitarian, it's to have a constant stream of desperate people who will work for anything and don't know their rights. This has been swept under the rug to protect our "refugee business."
Look around, that business is booming.
Canada is heading for serious problems. The politicians in Ottawa and the provinces are controlled by a tiny group of rich people who only care about their quarterly profits. Our last housing minister owned three investment properties and was just replaced by the guy who started this mass immigration thing.
When asked about the lack of housing, the old minister said, "Don't worry, they'll build their own housing." The Prime Minister said housing "is not a concern of the federal government." Now the new immigration minister says, "We may need to revise the targets higher." They're completely out of touch. Even the banks agree this is insane.
This is a simplified overview. There are tons of other problems, like not investing in housing for 30 years, ignoring money laundering by foreign investors, no rules for AirBnB, turning student programs into work visas, not diversifying our economy, closing factories, not investing in infrastructure, etc. It's a total disaster.
Again, it's not just immigration. We were already in trouble before Ottawa decided to add millions of people a year. But now we're on the verge of something really bad. I'm leaving the country next year. I'm at the top of my pay scale here and can't afford to live (six roommates and still struggling, rent is $1000 per room). I can more than double my wage somewhere else.
Canada used to be stable with a high standard of living (built on debt), and we thought we were better than places like the US. The sudden drop in living conditions has been hard for people to accept.
I don't want to see what my frankly racist and ignorant countrymen do when they blame the millions of immigrants for what's happening, instead of the politicians who decided to turn Canada into a corporate entity. After years of politicians calling any criticism of immigration "racist," the backlash will be severe.
The core problem is that the people in charge don't care about Canada as a country. They just want a company town from coast to coast. You'll pay for housing forever, either with mortgages or rent to rich landlords, and buy everything from a few big companies that all lead back to the same families. You'll have to work endlessly for whatever you can get. Social stability, sane economics, none of that matters. The goal is to squeeze as much money as possible out of everyone, both locals and immigrants, and throw more people on the pile when they start to run dry.
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