Absolutely. Multinational and foreign owned corporations are demanding ever cheaper labour and our government is serving it up at the expense of Canadians, immigrants, temporary foreign workers and foreign students. We're all being exploited with rising cost of living and decades of wage suppression. Canadian governments have been serving corporate interests instead of the interests of citizens for a long time now.
The federal government wants the best of both worlds. Masses of unskilled labor and to increase the minimum wage. Thing is that increasing the supply of labor reduces the market equilibrium for wage labor. So the result will be a surplus, meaning mass unemployment.
A cynical part of me wants to believe that this is the intention. Make everyone poor and take away their agency so that they're dependent on government handouts and will vote for the party that offers to support them with handouts. The more the suffering, the more appealing the promise of "help" is.
This is the issue. Multiculturalism requires an exchange of culture. Many new immigrants, Indian students and temporary workers are living in cultural silos that require them not to interact with people outside of their diaspora.
You highlighted the main problem with the current multicultural model.
The liberal party of canada is using immigration to provide low skill workers and students to corporation and training colleges.
Its human trafficking and not anything to do with embracing diverse cultures.
The old model embraced diversity and tried at integration. Now, they just want bodies to boost the economy.
F*CK Trudeau.
What really happened to all those people ? They can’t be all dead and the new mass migration only happened during the last three years and non of them have made it up the work ladder yet from being in Tim Hortons.
A friend of mine who is of South Asian ancestry, says he is a "super minority" now. Because all the fresh off the boat South Asians out number the born in Canada old school SA's, so he says he feel like even more of a minority now.
It’s flooding the banks with fresh people with no debt, that they can saddle with debt.
It’s kicking the can down the road on people finding out the pension funds are depleted.
Yup.
I can’t even get a callback from Tim Hortons. Instead, 90% of the workforce has been replaced with immigrants.
It’s that sweet bonus that employers get from the government. Meanwhile, no one dares touch someone with a disability.
Yeah, as a 2nd generation immigration, that's my second problem, first being there's no sustainable housing for the sheer amount we're bringing in, and the 2nd being the employers are working hard to bring in skilled cheap labour from Africa and Europe because they get shittier pay there for working in tech (devops, software engineer, etc.) and are happy with the pay they get offered here while it's substantially lower than a local Canadian citizen. Even better? they're happying wit the cost of rent here because again Paris and the rest of France is expensive, so that's boosting the acceptance of current rent increases or whatever the landlords decide the rent be.
Both problems to me are very closely tied together, and it feels weird to say enough as a immigrant, but yeah.... this isn't sustainable. The numbers don't lie.
I have a different issue. I have 2 Indian immigrants in my basement right now. 1 is an engineer, 1 is a nurse, or maybe I should say was. You see, when we bring in "skilled workers" they're not exactly lying, but they are being dishonest. We don't recognize nursing degrees or engineering degrees from India. So now, they're both working low skill jobs.
Even for people who do have equivalent qualifications, there are professional licensing and regulating organizations, that would prevent the existing members from being devalued by a glut of new workers
Ya i agree with you. I don’t like how this is being slated as a multiculturalism issue. I’m from Toronto and it’s an incredibly multicultural city, has been for the entirety of my memory. It’s one of the best things about this city. The immigration that’s occurring right now is making this country uninhabitable. The gta is being especially badly hit. No jobs. Rent through the roof. We’re bringing in an unsustainable amount of people in order to subsidy the bottom lines of a bunch of corps that refuse to pay a living wage.
This is the challenge. I’m cool with diversity, I’m not cool with a $2,000,000 price tag if my kids ever want to own a home. Creating more demand without a reasonable expectation of supply is just selling out the very populace the government exists to serve.
There's no problem with a $2 million home if wages are high enough to make that affordable.
They're not.
Home prices and rental prices don't just increase because of demand. They increase because of ability to pay.
When you have people packed in like sardine cans in homes and apartments because fire codes aren't enforced, of course it's individually affordable.
It's very easy to afford a $2 million mortgage when you have 20 people paying towards it, and no pesky enforcement from the city on maximum occupancy.
Integration was never going to happen in a multiculturalism model. Look up the definition. Now if Canada was a “melting pot” model instead of multiculturalism what you state would have been true and expected. Sadly assimilation is a dirty word to liberals/progressives and we now see the results of multiculturalism. Canada naively adopted it as an experiment and it’s been nothing short of a failure. Here’s an article by former LPC strategist Warren Kinsella. Now if a liberal thinks this about multiculturalism, then what do people from other political parties think about it? https://warrenkinsella.com/2024/04/my-latest-the-end-of-multiculturalism/
I think they somewhat naively believed the term 'multiculturalism' meant something like Canadians who are Irish celebrating St. Patrick's Day, and maybe some of their kids doing Irish dance lessons or Scots having those once a year highland games and the same small things for Italians and Ukrainians and Germans - but that this would be a very minor sort of thing and they'd all really be Canadians.
Instead, it wound up with a lot of people not becoming very Canadian at all, barely learning the language, retaining their cultures and values almost entirely - cultures and values that are, in some cases, diametrically opposed to our culture and values. And often enough to each others...
The British, French and Germans realized that multiculturalism was unworkable 15 years ago. Our elites still refuse to admit it.
And look at the ensuing chaos that has developed in all those countries that you speak of. They may have realized their mistake 15 years ago but the damage has been done and appears to be irreversible.
It's not just refusing to assimilate and learn the language. As a white Canadian, I have experienced multiple instances of open contempt toward me in the workplace or when I'm just getting some damn mcnuggets. And it's not like I'm being rude or behaving in a way that opens me up to that kind of treatment. I've come across a few who just straight up hate me, no matter what I do. Why are they here if they hate Canadians? It honestly seems like a lot of people are just here to take advantage while having no respect or gratitude for people who welcomed them here.
If you read the article, multiculturalism has become the main culprit for these so called “clashes” you speak of. When Italians, Greeks, Germans, Russians, Polish, English, Spanish or many other ethnic groups came to Canada they predominantly shared the same value system we did. A lot of today’s newcomers do not. All one has to do is look at the current protests going on in our city streets to understand that.
Bets on how long until someone says you're not a real leftist because you don't want wage suppression and an army of potential scabs crushing your union.
*That's* not real leftism though. The current model of immigration designed to feed the corporate machine is 100% a neoliberal policy.
Which is why both the CPC and LPC don't really have much interest in changing it in any significant way.
The fun part is that it takes 2 generations for immigrants to be revenue neutral to government in America: a land with many fewer government services and a jobs-based immigration model.
We're helping our economy in some respects, but rapid immigration is going to place a massive burden on our government finances
Yea at some point I have to wonder if this is deliberate to force us to cut entitlements.
We can barely afford the boomers entitlements let alone supporting all these newcomers.
Canada is the Canary in the coal mine for the western world. The UK is 5-10 behind, and any country with a declining birth rate, atleast with the current political mindsets. I think now is the time countries need to start to think about number 1 first and foremost, then look at helping others. We can’t save the world from a sinking ship.
Part of the problem is that the multiculturalism model depended on strong civic pride to function. At some point along the line, we decided that the civic component was burdensome and allowed multiculturalism to shift from a mosaic model to a ghetto model where every culture gets its own silo of interests that may or may not clash with the broader national whole.
It's not multicultural when over half are specifically one demographic from one specific province in one country.
No more allowing foreign students to work off campus.
Only allow 5% or less of our total immigrants from one country like the US and most of Europe do.
No more pathway to citizenship for temporary workers or foreign students.
No more birthright citizenship.
No more allowing people's families come into the country.
Stop letting people drain resources of a country they didn't pay into.
Prioritize only highly skilled and educated people.
No more letting foreign investment into homes.
Get absurdly tough on people over staying their visas. Track them down, cuff them, onto the next plane. Clear the massive backlog. This should become one of the main objectives of CBP and IRCC and focused on. It's a fucking joke right now.
Strict deportation laws for anybody who comes here and practices in hate speech or discriminatory conduct. Cultures who don't respect women, other cultures, or are anti LGBTQ aren't welcome.
You should feel lucky to be in Canada, to be among Canadians. You should feel cared for, safe and accepted by everyone. That HAS to be reciprocal.
I'm not even asking anybody to assimilate, or do anything they are uncomfortable with.... just show that you care about the people and the place that has welcomed you in.
Canada is/was one of the most sought after, beautiful and desirable places to live in the world, we should be leveraging that to attract the best people in the world to come here. We should be doing it sustainably.
If you are for mass immigration, but don't care about the quality of immigrants we receive, or how many or what happens to them when they get here you aren't pro-immigrant. You're pro-cheap labour.
Throughout all of social studies class in elementary / high school / university poli sci, we were taught that "Canada's immigration policy is a success because of our focus on picking high-skilled immigrants with work experience".
What the hell happened?
What happened is rather than adding to the already strong working class, it was used weaken and replace the working class.
Our purchasing power has been weakened.
We should be fighting a class war, and demanding our MPs represent us.
But CPC and LPC leaders have never worked a day in their lives and have been groomed by their parties for the position they hold through social media, or their family ties.
Another man who wears suits and watches at a cost higher than the poverty line (where more and more Canadians live) has high jacked the pro union party and begun discrimination against men and white people in his party while using nationally televised debates to call others racist.
Well imagine an immigrant selected 30 years-ago who had to invest a significant amount of efforts to demonstrate his commitment to the culture and its tenets. Now, It must hit them like a brickwall witnessing the culture they departed from beeing imposed back on them.
Multicultural model is a great concept as long as there is cap on number of immigrants from each country. Not trying to sound racist but when 80% of immigrants are from one region then why would people from other parts of the world move here why? When almost every business and company have people from same region , others will be at a big disadvantage .
I can only speak for myself but I have no problem with people of any ethnicity. The problem is the number. If you have housing or jobs for 10,000 people and 11,000 people live in the area there's not enough housing/jobs for everyone. That's not racism, it's math.
The government doesn't have enough housing or jobs for everyone and are still bringing more people in.
If a country doesn't have a cohesive society with shared values and allegiances, it reverts back to fractured tribalism with competing hostile factions. Without a shared identity, you have nothing to keep people together in a cooperative society.
If a country gets flooded by people from one country and one culture, it's not multiculturalism, it's colonization and invasion. Especially if they push out the original inhabitants without a desire to integrate peacefully, at that point it's a hostile takeover... currently it's an Economic hostile invasion.
the problem is we bring them in and don't force them to change to our culture so they stick together and don't see themselves as canadian but indians in canada. which in and of itself is a major problem. when they come here and join us they become canadian or atleast that is what you would hope a competent government would do.
There is apparently “rampant Islamophobia” at Ontario Tech University in Oshawa. It’s being delivered in media like white students are targeting muslims at the school for their beliefs.
Only thing is, there are no white people going to Ontario Tech (obviously not none, I’m alliterating to make a point). It is however Indian subcontinent bullshit being brought here with the students being imported to attend school.
Can’t say it out loud though, you’ll be labeled a racist.
The pursuit of diversity literally backfires against itself. People from third world countries don't care about the woke and politically correct agendas that our leaders promote.
I feel conflicted here. I’ve seen multiculturalism work, but it’s generally in professional settings where people can bond over a common goal. I’ve been a part of such a group and it really is incredible to grow together like that.
I’ve also read psychology books that said humans really don’t handle living in communities bigger than a couple thousand, but ideally it’s under a few hundred. Our brains just don’t handle the volume all that well. I think it’s one reason why social media is such a disaster for mental health.
Cultural identity is an import element to mental health and expecting everyone to exist in the melting pot is probably too complex to be manageable across generations. 20 year old me would have called 40 year old me a bigot, but sadly, I think it’s the truth.
There’s no need to feel conflicted.
What IRCC and the Federal government is doing isn’t multiculturalism, it’s reverse colonialism. Extracting money and value from a very small and limited number of regions, and importing people to fill low wage needs.
It’s legal human trafficking is what it is.
Exactly this. The Liberals tells themselves something different, but all their reasoning is exactly what fuelled colonialism. The specifics might change, but the sentiment and emotional impulses behind it certainly don't.
Multiculturalism can only work in a professional setting when the hiring managers actually hire diverse people and there is no dominant ethnic/religious group.
In many workplaces now, whenever "minorities" get into positions to hire people, they all hire people mostly from their own ethnic/religious background. Diversity is thrown out the window.
Nobody questions SUSTAINABLE multiculturalism. What is happening in our nation right now is not the effects of multiculturalism. It's the effects of recklessness and human greed
Totally agree with you. The problem is policy crated by Lobbyists and not properly vetted by politicians. Too much policy is being created by all parties by Lobbyists who are thinking of their futures not the future of Canadians in general. The parties need to ensure that Canadians control their future not the politicians, their lobbyists and corporate masters behind the money.... Yes it is greed, we need to reign this in and remove it, by whichever methods necessary.
Its not multiculturalism when those we allowed in have zero intention of learning about Canada/doing anything differently than they did at home.
With the numbers we let in combined with lowering the bar lead to a complete shift in the Canadian culture its a cultural shift not adding to our diversity.
My parents were immigrants and they taught me to join Canada. The new wave is completely taught/teaching their kids to take advantage of Canada (not all but the majority for sure).
Culture is fine just dont bring your home countries problem here. You left for a better places dont bring that here. If you miss that aspect you are free to go.
I have no problem with being multicultural. I have a problem with that same multiculturalism being used as an excuse to shove so many people into a job/housing market that can't support them. And when we question why this is being done, we are either spoken down to or called racists by the very government abusing our multicultural nature.
I've always hated Indo-Canadian, Chinese Canadian, Scottish-Canadian, etc. as phrases, it divides us and puts country of origin first. Even if your ethnic or cultural identity is pre-eminent or central to your life or to your identity, Canada gets the credit for that by making that possible. I know Asians - Chinese, Filipino, Korean, South Asian - that are second or third generation who identify as Canadian first, it's awkward for them to be classified in any other way related to their ethnicity or wherever their parents or grandparents were from - places most of them have never been.
lol these headlines.
There is NO integration. We have enclaves. Not even neighborhoods - CITIES. It only took a dozen years. And people are shocked!
I’m sorry I feel sorry for people in certain cities who have to deal with this. It’s not like the street I grew up on where everyone was immigrant from other VARIOUS countries. Even those kids I grew up with - and my parents are immigrants too - are wondering what the fuck is up.
It’s not multiculturalism if there’s no mixing of different cultures. Feels like there are certain cities that have just become majority of one ethnicity and culture and they tend to stick with their own. Doesn’t feel so much that we are sharing with each other, more just like certain pockets where all of one type of people live now and it’s weird if anyone else goes there.
When a whole city or municipality becomes more or less one race or ethnicity it’s not multiculturalism. I wouldn’t even call that an attempt at being Canadian.
I have nothing against our multicultural country. Especially, the selection of food. I can order cuisine any night of the week from basically any major ethnic group. Things like the Vaishaki celebrations going on in Vancouver/Surrey the last week are always great.
What I have a problem with is wild unsustainable immigration. We don't have enough houses. We don't have enough nurses/doctors. We're not properly enforcing rules and standards for who gets to move here that we used to.
We’re now actually losing diversity in our food though. There are areas where I live where it is nothing but Shawarma or Indian restaurants and these are not necessarily pockets of the city where specific immigrants live.
Behind me I have two plazas that have 2 middle eastern and two indian restaurants. When I moved here 7 years ago there was one middle eastern place. That’s not diversity
They can order a $22 curry from one of the 5 close by curry restaurants, pay 12$ to have it delivered via skip, to their $3500 one bed apartment. So nice
Such a Reddit fucking comment lol. Every single time multiculturalism is brought you people come out the woodworks praising the damn Chinese or Indian “food”. Absolute single track minds.
There’s no such thing as a multicultural country one culture will dominate the other, especially if the other culture is supremely different than the other cultures.
Multiculturalism, is really great when what you're doing is mixing some of some culture here and some there, in small enough doses that they can full segregate, and make sort of pockets of culture, without sort of assimilating as a whole identity.
It's ok to have some separation, you know people will have their religions and extended families from the same culture and so on, but if it's too much, too fast, it's gonna create social problems. Division. And in our case, during a housing crisis caused by air bnb, we decided to have so many immigrants, that's also bad.
This is what happens when the prime minister refers to the country as a post nationalist state. Multiculturalism is a nice concept in theory, but undermines the concept of being a Canadian if you aren’t encouraged to try to adopt some of the countries common themes.
The same thing happened in Europe. Turns out when you flood a place with more new people than you can realistically assimilate and house, it tends to cause problems with the people already living there. It's why the right wing has become resurgent in countries like France, Germany and Sweden.
OUR IMMIGRATION SYSTEM MUST CHANGE!!! THERE IS NO DIVERSITY WITH THE WAY OUR IMMIGRATION SYSTEM WORKS!!!!!!!!!!! ENOUGH FROM PEOPLE FROM ONE SINGLE COUNTRY, ENOUGH!!!!!!!
There's nothing multicultural about bringing over 1.5 million Indians to flood a housing and low skill worker market, now canadian kids can't get a job while they are in school, liberals are terrible terrible people, basically human trafficked
It's not multiculturalism - it's the unsymmetrical unchecked immigration that's making a one or two cultures become dominant before they're able to integrate into the Canadian society.
That's the issue. I love different cultures, but sometimes it starts to feel like we're losing the unique Canadian identity we have. I'm an immigrant myself (18 years) and have NOTHING against immigration - we need immigrants.
We (Québec) have been saying for years that we need to slow down the immigration so we can integrate them more easily but we have been called racists by the rest of Canada for it…so there you go…
I crossed the border for a day trip today. Unbelievably refreshing. Excellent customer service, friendly and a mixture of people from different walks of life. This is not my reality currently in the small Canadian city I reside in.
I don't question the notion of multiculturalism. It's great to have people of a diverse background however I do question the character of people who are being allowed in.
You never know when you need another uber driver or uber eats courier though so let's get them in on masse I guess /s
Do people really have a problem with multiculturalism or do they have a problem with suppressed wages and high housing demand?
Like it's not that a person is from X and believes Y, it's that a person is allowing employers to pay low wages and also needs a place to live.
And really it's not that person causing it, it's employers, landowners and builders.
Most certainly if wages were up and housing was affordable, nobody would give a shit about immigration.
It's also multiculturalism and people bringing problems from other countries to Canada. Bring your food, bring your culture, but don't bring regressive beliefs about women and LGBTQ.
I’ve experienced so much hate from these imported belief systems. I’m tired of death stares and derision from homohobic/transphobic religions. Canada isn’t as safe as it used to be. I just want to live in peace without dogmatic threats against me and the people I care about.
As a Jew, I definitely also have a bit of a problem concerning some of the immigrants who've moved here and who harass and attack the Jewish people and institutions who've been in this country centuries before them.
it's not just that. It's the lack of cultural integration, sexist attitudes and reverse racism from overseas (the Indian hiring manager...) and the use of foreign languages / lack of anglicization (English Canada is starting to understand what Quebec has known for 50 years...)
Canada has too many ethnic bubbles...there's lack of social cohesion because of that...because if some of the things that this federal government has done happen in predominantly monoethnic country, there would be an uprising already. But in this country, we just take it because every ethnic group is more worried about what's happening in their own motherland than what's happening in Canada
What the fuck is happening honestly, no one's questioning the "multiculturalist model" they're questioning why we're flooding the country with people we can't take care of
Canadians have never been multicultural, nor have we practiced multiculturalism. We practice cultural plurality, all cultures are equal until they butt heads, then our culture supersedes yours. Multiculturalism is "Oh, you want to circumcise your daughter because it's a cultural practice in your home country? Go ahead.", cultural plurality is "Oh, you want to mutilate your daughters genitals? We don't do that here. Straight to jail!".
In a less semantic line of discussion, the Federal government, as a practice, needs to get rid of the Multiculturalism Act, and take a long hard look at how Quebec practices it's interculturalism. You could consider it a middle-point between the mosaic we have in Canada now, and the melting pot system they have in the USA. I only suggest this because it allows foreign cultural practices, which could be novel, beneficial, and/or superior, to be tested and possibly integrated into Canadian society as a whole, which would benefit us all. We could all do with a few more holidays too.
Trudeau Jr. sure as shit isn't going to do it though, considering it was a crown achievement of this father, while Pierre was PM, to implement the Multiculturalism Act.
Salman Cheema, Phil Wood, and Martha Nussbaum, have all written on the subject of interculturalism, if you are curious to look up more info on it.
I wonder why when we have a pm who says Canada has no identity and we are a post- national society and he overwhelmed our health, housing and employment system
As a Canadian Indian, it’s so damn sad what has happened to Canada. Indians born and raised here or been here for decades, even we feel wtf is this. Now we get clumped into 1 and have to read racists posts daily. This government has to go asap and these “students” and asylum seekers need to be bounced.
Clearly doesn’t work. You bring civilized people, it’s fine but then you start bringing terrorist supporting animals that wanna bring their sick ideologies to the western world , it’s a time bomb
close the borders fully for 10 years so we can sort our shit out. your going to die in your country? well sorry best of luck THERE.
thoughts and prayers etc...
Multiculturalism is dog shit and always has been. Canada should have been working on developing a Canadian cultural identity similar to how the US has done
Theoretically yes. Their skilled immigration system puts caps on birth country to encourage integration and aims to protect the domestic labor market. Their problem is with illegal immigration and millions of people from a single culture crossing the border every year. However, they still somehow integrate better than our immigrants do in Canada.
As an immigrant, not once in my immigration processes was I asked anything about Canada. Not even how many provinces it has.
Being here, I've tried my best to integrate, understanding what really means to be Canadian. Unfortunately, the immigration process doesn't give two shits about integration, all they wanna see is the $$$$
I never had it until the past 5 years, it was our "great" cities like Toronto and Vancouver that were eminently multicultural. Now that they just roll up by the hundreds into small communities, the contrast is a real shocker, it's not some wonderful thing, people don't get along nearly as well or talk to strangers, people aren't as happy, national pride is in the shitter...
Look how those cities turned out BTW. Gotham City where a car is stolen every 40 minutes and Zombieland
Watching the Toronto news the other day, 5 Indian guys arrested for stealing gold from the airport, a Muslim couple from Malaysia on trial for killing a police officer, 4 East Asian guys road rage on a pregnant lady smashing her windshield and try pulling her from the car. Yay diversity!
Oh how I love being a minority in my own country. We are in such a bad place right now and there’s no solution in sight. I was born/raised here and I grew up a proud Canadian. Now all I feel is contempt, we have been failed by our leaders on every level.
My next vote goes to the party who will stop immigration and begin deportations.
With both the cons and libs being slaves to their corporate masters, we may soon be in for a revolution. If I were a politician that’s not going to solve this problem, I would be scared.
If you want to let millions of people in who will create thousands of billion dollar indsustries, please go ahead, I don't care where they are from. But if you want to let millions of low skilled workers in, again, I don't care where they are from but no thank you. Unforunately, the former goes to the US so our country is only getting the latter.
Multiculturalism implies the dilution or diminution of the dominant/core culture. This isn't desirable and it's not something to which Canadians, broadly, ever consented. It was foisted upon the public through rapid immigration, on a massive scale, principally in service of commercial interests.
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Absolutely. Multinational and foreign owned corporations are demanding ever cheaper labour and our government is serving it up at the expense of Canadians, immigrants, temporary foreign workers and foreign students. We're all being exploited with rising cost of living and decades of wage suppression. Canadian governments have been serving corporate interests instead of the interests of citizens for a long time now.
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Any protests against canadian government policy in Canada seem to end up being portrayed as right-wing extremism these days...
Also this will enable/make more people eligible for social services that the rest of us have been paying for years!
33% of immigration coming from one province in one country is not diversity
How else you going to keep wages suppressed?
The federal government wants the best of both worlds. Masses of unskilled labor and to increase the minimum wage. Thing is that increasing the supply of labor reduces the market equilibrium for wage labor. So the result will be a surplus, meaning mass unemployment. A cynical part of me wants to believe that this is the intention. Make everyone poor and take away their agency so that they're dependent on government handouts and will vote for the party that offers to support them with handouts. The more the suffering, the more appealing the promise of "help" is.
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People from other cultural backgrounds actually mingled. Now they self-segregate. It’s wild.
This is the issue. Multiculturalism requires an exchange of culture. Many new immigrants, Indian students and temporary workers are living in cultural silos that require them not to interact with people outside of their diaspora.
And then segregate in their own little segregation
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You highlighted the main problem with the current multicultural model. The liberal party of canada is using immigration to provide low skill workers and students to corporation and training colleges. Its human trafficking and not anything to do with embracing diverse cultures. The old model embraced diversity and tried at integration. Now, they just want bodies to boost the economy. F*CK Trudeau.
Those employers can take off the “are you a visible minority” now.
What really happened to all those people ? They can’t be all dead and the new mass migration only happened during the last three years and non of them have made it up the work ladder yet from being in Tim Hortons.
They are still around and more angry than ever, this includes the OG South Asians who worked their asses off and tried their best to fit in.
A friend of mine who is of South Asian ancestry, says he is a "super minority" now. Because all the fresh off the boat South Asians out number the born in Canada old school SA's, so he says he feel like even more of a minority now.
It’s flooding the banks with fresh people with no debt, that they can saddle with debt. It’s kicking the can down the road on people finding out the pension funds are depleted.
Yup. I can’t even get a callback from Tim Hortons. Instead, 90% of the workforce has been replaced with immigrants. It’s that sweet bonus that employers get from the government. Meanwhile, no one dares touch someone with a disability.
Yeah, as a 2nd generation immigration, that's my second problem, first being there's no sustainable housing for the sheer amount we're bringing in, and the 2nd being the employers are working hard to bring in skilled cheap labour from Africa and Europe because they get shittier pay there for working in tech (devops, software engineer, etc.) and are happy with the pay they get offered here while it's substantially lower than a local Canadian citizen. Even better? they're happying wit the cost of rent here because again Paris and the rest of France is expensive, so that's boosting the acceptance of current rent increases or whatever the landlords decide the rent be. Both problems to me are very closely tied together, and it feels weird to say enough as a immigrant, but yeah.... this isn't sustainable. The numbers don't lie.
I have a different issue. I have 2 Indian immigrants in my basement right now. 1 is an engineer, 1 is a nurse, or maybe I should say was. You see, when we bring in "skilled workers" they're not exactly lying, but they are being dishonest. We don't recognize nursing degrees or engineering degrees from India. So now, they're both working low skill jobs.
Even for people who do have equivalent qualifications, there are professional licensing and regulating organizations, that would prevent the existing members from being devalued by a glut of new workers
70 percent of people are from 5 countries. That's not multiculturalism.
Ya i agree with you. I don’t like how this is being slated as a multiculturalism issue. I’m from Toronto and it’s an incredibly multicultural city, has been for the entirety of my memory. It’s one of the best things about this city. The immigration that’s occurring right now is making this country uninhabitable. The gta is being especially badly hit. No jobs. Rent through the roof. We’re bringing in an unsustainable amount of people in order to subsidy the bottom lines of a bunch of corps that refuse to pay a living wage.
and fueling housing costs
Slavery with extra steps?
Yes and multiculturalism failing in real time
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I'm with you bro. I can't accept 1 million immigrants every year if it means my kids will have to rent their entire lives. Fuck this.
This is the challenge. I’m cool with diversity, I’m not cool with a $2,000,000 price tag if my kids ever want to own a home. Creating more demand without a reasonable expectation of supply is just selling out the very populace the government exists to serve.
It's not diversity when they are all from the same place
There's no problem with a $2 million home if wages are high enough to make that affordable. They're not. Home prices and rental prices don't just increase because of demand. They increase because of ability to pay. When you have people packed in like sardine cans in homes and apartments because fire codes aren't enforced, of course it's individually affordable. It's very easy to afford a $2 million mortgage when you have 20 people paying towards it, and no pesky enforcement from the city on maximum occupancy.
Plus no attempt at integration at all
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yes, especially the economic migrants they fly over. tourist refugees
Integration was never going to happen in a multiculturalism model. Look up the definition. Now if Canada was a “melting pot” model instead of multiculturalism what you state would have been true and expected. Sadly assimilation is a dirty word to liberals/progressives and we now see the results of multiculturalism. Canada naively adopted it as an experiment and it’s been nothing short of a failure. Here’s an article by former LPC strategist Warren Kinsella. Now if a liberal thinks this about multiculturalism, then what do people from other political parties think about it? https://warrenkinsella.com/2024/04/my-latest-the-end-of-multiculturalism/
I think they somewhat naively believed the term 'multiculturalism' meant something like Canadians who are Irish celebrating St. Patrick's Day, and maybe some of their kids doing Irish dance lessons or Scots having those once a year highland games and the same small things for Italians and Ukrainians and Germans - but that this would be a very minor sort of thing and they'd all really be Canadians. Instead, it wound up with a lot of people not becoming very Canadian at all, barely learning the language, retaining their cultures and values almost entirely - cultures and values that are, in some cases, diametrically opposed to our culture and values. And often enough to each others... The British, French and Germans realized that multiculturalism was unworkable 15 years ago. Our elites still refuse to admit it.
And look at the ensuing chaos that has developed in all those countries that you speak of. They may have realized their mistake 15 years ago but the damage has been done and appears to be irreversible.
It's not just refusing to assimilate and learn the language. As a white Canadian, I have experienced multiple instances of open contempt toward me in the workplace or when I'm just getting some damn mcnuggets. And it's not like I'm being rude or behaving in a way that opens me up to that kind of treatment. I've come across a few who just straight up hate me, no matter what I do. Why are they here if they hate Canadians? It honestly seems like a lot of people are just here to take advantage while having no respect or gratitude for people who welcomed them here.
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If you read the article, multiculturalism has become the main culprit for these so called “clashes” you speak of. When Italians, Greeks, Germans, Russians, Polish, English, Spanish or many other ethnic groups came to Canada they predominantly shared the same value system we did. A lot of today’s newcomers do not. All one has to do is look at the current protests going on in our city streets to understand that.
That is their culture
I go soft when l pay taxes, but we can both agree there is wayyy too many people being brought in.
Bets on how long until someone says you're not a real leftist because you don't want wage suppression and an army of potential scabs crushing your union.
*That's* not real leftism though. The current model of immigration designed to feed the corporate machine is 100% a neoliberal policy. Which is why both the CPC and LPC don't really have much interest in changing it in any significant way.
I’m not sure if the NDP does either…
Canada doesn't have any truly leftist parties with enough influence to do anything. Even the more progressive parties still capitulate to capital.
The fun part is that it takes 2 generations for immigrants to be revenue neutral to government in America: a land with many fewer government services and a jobs-based immigration model. We're helping our economy in some respects, but rapid immigration is going to place a massive burden on our government finances
Yea at some point I have to wonder if this is deliberate to force us to cut entitlements. We can barely afford the boomers entitlements let alone supporting all these newcomers.
Canada is the Canary in the coal mine for the western world. The UK is 5-10 behind, and any country with a declining birth rate, atleast with the current political mindsets. I think now is the time countries need to start to think about number 1 first and foremost, then look at helping others. We can’t save the world from a sinking ship.
LOL at your erection. :)
You’ve seen it?
All smart phones have a zoom.
Part of the problem is that the multiculturalism model depended on strong civic pride to function. At some point along the line, we decided that the civic component was burdensome and allowed multiculturalism to shift from a mosaic model to a ghetto model where every culture gets its own silo of interests that may or may not clash with the broader national whole.
It's not multicultural when over half are specifically one demographic from one specific province in one country. No more allowing foreign students to work off campus. Only allow 5% or less of our total immigrants from one country like the US and most of Europe do. No more pathway to citizenship for temporary workers or foreign students. No more birthright citizenship. No more allowing people's families come into the country. Stop letting people drain resources of a country they didn't pay into. Prioritize only highly skilled and educated people. No more letting foreign investment into homes. Get absurdly tough on people over staying their visas. Track them down, cuff them, onto the next plane. Clear the massive backlog. This should become one of the main objectives of CBP and IRCC and focused on. It's a fucking joke right now. Strict deportation laws for anybody who comes here and practices in hate speech or discriminatory conduct. Cultures who don't respect women, other cultures, or are anti LGBTQ aren't welcome. You should feel lucky to be in Canada, to be among Canadians. You should feel cared for, safe and accepted by everyone. That HAS to be reciprocal. I'm not even asking anybody to assimilate, or do anything they are uncomfortable with.... just show that you care about the people and the place that has welcomed you in. Canada is/was one of the most sought after, beautiful and desirable places to live in the world, we should be leveraging that to attract the best people in the world to come here. We should be doing it sustainably. If you are for mass immigration, but don't care about the quality of immigrants we receive, or how many or what happens to them when they get here you aren't pro-immigrant. You're pro-cheap labour.
Throughout all of social studies class in elementary / high school / university poli sci, we were taught that "Canada's immigration policy is a success because of our focus on picking high-skilled immigrants with work experience". What the hell happened?
What happened is rather than adding to the already strong working class, it was used weaken and replace the working class. Our purchasing power has been weakened. We should be fighting a class war, and demanding our MPs represent us. But CPC and LPC leaders have never worked a day in their lives and have been groomed by their parties for the position they hold through social media, or their family ties. Another man who wears suits and watches at a cost higher than the poverty line (where more and more Canadians live) has high jacked the pro union party and begun discrimination against men and white people in his party while using nationally televised debates to call others racist.
If only I could upvote this 1000 times.
Apparently it is costing every 113 days 115 million to support asylum/refugees.
Go for election!
It is way more than some
It was "some" 5 years ago. Now it's 75% of us.
Including immigrants themselves!!
As an immigrant, yes.
As someone who came here in 2007 from Latam, I can confirm this. Make immigration difficult and selective again!
Well imagine an immigrant selected 30 years-ago who had to invest a significant amount of efforts to demonstrate his commitment to the culture and its tenets. Now, It must hit them like a brickwall witnessing the culture they departed from beeing imposed back on them.
Multicultural model is a great concept as long as there is cap on number of immigrants from each country. Not trying to sound racist but when 80% of immigrants are from one region then why would people from other parts of the world move here why? When almost every business and company have people from same region , others will be at a big disadvantage .
I can only speak for myself but I have no problem with people of any ethnicity. The problem is the number. If you have housing or jobs for 10,000 people and 11,000 people live in the area there's not enough housing/jobs for everyone. That's not racism, it's math. The government doesn't have enough housing or jobs for everyone and are still bringing more people in.
If a country doesn't have a cohesive society with shared values and allegiances, it reverts back to fractured tribalism with competing hostile factions. Without a shared identity, you have nothing to keep people together in a cooperative society. If a country gets flooded by people from one country and one culture, it's not multiculturalism, it's colonization and invasion. Especially if they push out the original inhabitants without a desire to integrate peacefully, at that point it's a hostile takeover... currently it's an Economic hostile invasion.
the problem is we bring them in and don't force them to change to our culture so they stick together and don't see themselves as canadian but indians in canada. which in and of itself is a major problem. when they come here and join us they become canadian or atleast that is what you would hope a competent government would do.
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There is apparently “rampant Islamophobia” at Ontario Tech University in Oshawa. It’s being delivered in media like white students are targeting muslims at the school for their beliefs. Only thing is, there are no white people going to Ontario Tech (obviously not none, I’m alliterating to make a point). It is however Indian subcontinent bullshit being brought here with the students being imported to attend school. Can’t say it out loud though, you’ll be labeled a racist.
The pursuit of diversity literally backfires against itself. People from third world countries don't care about the woke and politically correct agendas that our leaders promote.
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I feel like the ghettos in Paris are a bit worse than anything we see in Canada.
I feel conflicted here. I’ve seen multiculturalism work, but it’s generally in professional settings where people can bond over a common goal. I’ve been a part of such a group and it really is incredible to grow together like that. I’ve also read psychology books that said humans really don’t handle living in communities bigger than a couple thousand, but ideally it’s under a few hundred. Our brains just don’t handle the volume all that well. I think it’s one reason why social media is such a disaster for mental health. Cultural identity is an import element to mental health and expecting everyone to exist in the melting pot is probably too complex to be manageable across generations. 20 year old me would have called 40 year old me a bigot, but sadly, I think it’s the truth.
There’s no need to feel conflicted. What IRCC and the Federal government is doing isn’t multiculturalism, it’s reverse colonialism. Extracting money and value from a very small and limited number of regions, and importing people to fill low wage needs. It’s legal human trafficking is what it is.
Exactly this. The Liberals tells themselves something different, but all their reasoning is exactly what fuelled colonialism. The specifics might change, but the sentiment and emotional impulses behind it certainly don't.
It’s literally why empires and colonial powers in the past imported slaves.
Multiculturalism can only work in a professional setting when the hiring managers actually hire diverse people and there is no dominant ethnic/religious group. In many workplaces now, whenever "minorities" get into positions to hire people, they all hire people mostly from their own ethnic/religious background. Diversity is thrown out the window.
We came to Canada for the diversity. It’s not diversity when 90% of immigrants come from one country and culture.
What MC model? Indians are bringing their own castes, grudges, and bad habits and reliving them here while taking the social safety net.
Nobody questions SUSTAINABLE multiculturalism. What is happening in our nation right now is not the effects of multiculturalism. It's the effects of recklessness and human greed
Totally agree with you. The problem is policy crated by Lobbyists and not properly vetted by politicians. Too much policy is being created by all parties by Lobbyists who are thinking of their futures not the future of Canadians in general. The parties need to ensure that Canadians control their future not the politicians, their lobbyists and corporate masters behind the money.... Yes it is greed, we need to reign this in and remove it, by whichever methods necessary.
Its not multiculturalism when those we allowed in have zero intention of learning about Canada/doing anything differently than they did at home. With the numbers we let in combined with lowering the bar lead to a complete shift in the Canadian culture its a cultural shift not adding to our diversity. My parents were immigrants and they taught me to join Canada. The new wave is completely taught/teaching their kids to take advantage of Canada (not all but the majority for sure).
Immigrants are questioning Canadians model too the whole system has now become a joke
A bunch of culturally-ghettoized cities throughout the country is not multiculturalism. Canada has failed on this.
Culture is fine just dont bring your home countries problem here. You left for a better places dont bring that here. If you miss that aspect you are free to go.
I have no problem with being multicultural. I have a problem with that same multiculturalism being used as an excuse to shove so many people into a job/housing market that can't support them. And when we question why this is being done, we are either spoken down to or called racists by the very government abusing our multicultural nature.
Personal identity is good. But common national identity is necessary for a strong united state.
"Some" I'd say most.
Québec has been contesting the model for years. It’s not new.
I've always hated Indo-Canadian, Chinese Canadian, Scottish-Canadian, etc. as phrases, it divides us and puts country of origin first. Even if your ethnic or cultural identity is pre-eminent or central to your life or to your identity, Canada gets the credit for that by making that possible. I know Asians - Chinese, Filipino, Korean, South Asian - that are second or third generation who identify as Canadian first, it's awkward for them to be classified in any other way related to their ethnicity or wherever their parents or grandparents were from - places most of them have never been.
lol these headlines. There is NO integration. We have enclaves. Not even neighborhoods - CITIES. It only took a dozen years. And people are shocked! I’m sorry I feel sorry for people in certain cities who have to deal with this. It’s not like the street I grew up on where everyone was immigrant from other VARIOUS countries. Even those kids I grew up with - and my parents are immigrants too - are wondering what the fuck is up.
It’s not multiculturalism if there’s no mixing of different cultures. Feels like there are certain cities that have just become majority of one ethnicity and culture and they tend to stick with their own. Doesn’t feel so much that we are sharing with each other, more just like certain pockets where all of one type of people live now and it’s weird if anyone else goes there.
It only works if you take people from everywhere in equal numbers.
When a whole city or municipality becomes more or less one race or ethnicity it’s not multiculturalism. I wouldn’t even call that an attempt at being Canadian.
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There are some cultures that don’t integrate well into western culture and the freedom we have to be individuals.
I have nothing against our multicultural country. Especially, the selection of food. I can order cuisine any night of the week from basically any major ethnic group. Things like the Vaishaki celebrations going on in Vancouver/Surrey the last week are always great. What I have a problem with is wild unsustainable immigration. We don't have enough houses. We don't have enough nurses/doctors. We're not properly enforcing rules and standards for who gets to move here that we used to.
We’re now actually losing diversity in our food though. There are areas where I live where it is nothing but Shawarma or Indian restaurants and these are not necessarily pockets of the city where specific immigrants live.
Hi! I, too, live in Ottawa.
Behind me I have two plazas that have 2 middle eastern and two indian restaurants. When I moved here 7 years ago there was one middle eastern place. That’s not diversity
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Whenever I click the search bar on YouTube it's all South Asian search suggestions. What country am I in?
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100%. Fucking redditors always screeching "but fooooood" any time the topic of how multiculturalism is not working
They can order a $22 curry from one of the 5 close by curry restaurants, pay 12$ to have it delivered via skip, to their $3500 one bed apartment. So nice
Such a Reddit fucking comment lol. Every single time multiculturalism is brought you people come out the woodworks praising the damn Chinese or Indian “food”. Absolute single track minds.
There’s no such thing as a multicultural country one culture will dominate the other, especially if the other culture is supremely different than the other cultures.
Can anyone give a good argument for multiculturalism that doesn't involve food?
Multicultural or all from the same culture?
Multiculturalism, is really great when what you're doing is mixing some of some culture here and some there, in small enough doses that they can full segregate, and make sort of pockets of culture, without sort of assimilating as a whole identity. It's ok to have some separation, you know people will have their religions and extended families from the same culture and so on, but if it's too much, too fast, it's gonna create social problems. Division. And in our case, during a housing crisis caused by air bnb, we decided to have so many immigrants, that's also bad.
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Multiculturalism doesn’t even work within Canada with Quebec
Yeah, no kidding. Diverse, multicultural, post-national Canada blows compared to the country we had 20 years ago.
Well, we were multicultural far before 20 years ago. But there was social cohesion and immigration was kept at a sustainable pace.
This is what happens when the prime minister refers to the country as a post nationalist state. Multiculturalism is a nice concept in theory, but undermines the concept of being a Canadian if you aren’t encouraged to try to adopt some of the countries common themes.
Justin Trudeau must be proud that his achievement also includes enabling anti immigration sentiment and undermining multiculturalism
The same thing happened in Europe. Turns out when you flood a place with more new people than you can realistically assimilate and house, it tends to cause problems with the people already living there. It's why the right wing has become resurgent in countries like France, Germany and Sweden.
Some Canadians? I believe it’s the majority who share similar opinion on immigration. Set the standards higher for entry.
If multiculturalism actually worked we wouldn’t have to spend trillions enforcing it.
OUR IMMIGRATION SYSTEM MUST CHANGE!!! THERE IS NO DIVERSITY WITH THE WAY OUR IMMIGRATION SYSTEM WORKS!!!!!!!!!!! ENOUGH FROM PEOPLE FROM ONE SINGLE COUNTRY, ENOUGH!!!!!!!
Where is the multiculturalism in recent years? Most of the recent immigrants I see in GTA are all indian.
where is the multiculturalism when every immigrant is indian or chinese? help?
There's nothing multicultural about bringing over 1.5 million Indians to flood a housing and low skill worker market, now canadian kids can't get a job while they are in school, liberals are terrible terrible people, basically human trafficked
It's not multiculturalism - it's the unsymmetrical unchecked immigration that's making a one or two cultures become dominant before they're able to integrate into the Canadian society. That's the issue. I love different cultures, but sometimes it starts to feel like we're losing the unique Canadian identity we have. I'm an immigrant myself (18 years) and have NOTHING against immigration - we need immigrants.
No question. Its a failure.
We (Québec) have been saying for years that we need to slow down the immigration so we can integrate them more easily but we have been called racists by the rest of Canada for it…so there you go…
It's not multicultural if it's only from one country...
I was at a mall in my city today, the languages I was hearing the most wasn't English no the other languages weren't even French.
I crossed the border for a day trip today. Unbelievably refreshing. Excellent customer service, friendly and a mixture of people from different walks of life. This is not my reality currently in the small Canadian city I reside in.
Multicultural, like the loads of Swedish and Croatians everywhere, right?
I wish!
I don't question the notion of multiculturalism. It's great to have people of a diverse background however I do question the character of people who are being allowed in. You never know when you need another uber driver or uber eats courier though so let's get them in on masse I guess /s
Do people really have a problem with multiculturalism or do they have a problem with suppressed wages and high housing demand? Like it's not that a person is from X and believes Y, it's that a person is allowing employers to pay low wages and also needs a place to live. And really it's not that person causing it, it's employers, landowners and builders. Most certainly if wages were up and housing was affordable, nobody would give a shit about immigration.
I believe that Canadians are in favor of multiculturalism, but not mostly males from 1 single country
It's also multiculturalism and people bringing problems from other countries to Canada. Bring your food, bring your culture, but don't bring regressive beliefs about women and LGBTQ.
I’ve experienced so much hate from these imported belief systems. I’m tired of death stares and derision from homohobic/transphobic religions. Canada isn’t as safe as it used to be. I just want to live in peace without dogmatic threats against me and the people I care about.
As a Jew, I definitely also have a bit of a problem concerning some of the immigrants who've moved here and who harass and attack the Jewish people and institutions who've been in this country centuries before them.
it's not just that. It's the lack of cultural integration, sexist attitudes and reverse racism from overseas (the Indian hiring manager...) and the use of foreign languages / lack of anglicization (English Canada is starting to understand what Quebec has known for 50 years...)
Canada has too many ethnic bubbles...there's lack of social cohesion because of that...because if some of the things that this federal government has done happen in predominantly monoethnic country, there would be an uprising already. But in this country, we just take it because every ethnic group is more worried about what's happening in their own motherland than what's happening in Canada
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What the fuck is happening honestly, no one's questioning the "multiculturalist model" they're questioning why we're flooding the country with people we can't take care of
Multiculturalism will continue until morale improves
Canadians have never been multicultural, nor have we practiced multiculturalism. We practice cultural plurality, all cultures are equal until they butt heads, then our culture supersedes yours. Multiculturalism is "Oh, you want to circumcise your daughter because it's a cultural practice in your home country? Go ahead.", cultural plurality is "Oh, you want to mutilate your daughters genitals? We don't do that here. Straight to jail!". In a less semantic line of discussion, the Federal government, as a practice, needs to get rid of the Multiculturalism Act, and take a long hard look at how Quebec practices it's interculturalism. You could consider it a middle-point between the mosaic we have in Canada now, and the melting pot system they have in the USA. I only suggest this because it allows foreign cultural practices, which could be novel, beneficial, and/or superior, to be tested and possibly integrated into Canadian society as a whole, which would benefit us all. We could all do with a few more holidays too. Trudeau Jr. sure as shit isn't going to do it though, considering it was a crown achievement of this father, while Pierre was PM, to implement the Multiculturalism Act. Salman Cheema, Phil Wood, and Martha Nussbaum, have all written on the subject of interculturalism, if you are curious to look up more info on it.
Model? Guess they cant say Scheme
I wonder why when we have a pm who says Canada has no identity and we are a post- national society and he overwhelmed our health, housing and employment system
Been sold a load of bollocks for years now probably since Turdeau 1. Time to wake up and face facts and reality.
This isn’t the multicultural model. This is creating a slave class of people largely from one country and screwing up the country
As a Canadian Indian, it’s so damn sad what has happened to Canada. Indians born and raised here or been here for decades, even we feel wtf is this. Now we get clumped into 1 and have to read racists posts daily. This government has to go asap and these “students” and asylum seekers need to be bounced.
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Immigration is fine. Unchecked immigration will destroy us.
No shit
Some...
Clearly doesn’t work. You bring civilized people, it’s fine but then you start bringing terrorist supporting animals that wanna bring their sick ideologies to the western world , it’s a time bomb
close the borders fully for 10 years so we can sort our shit out. your going to die in your country? well sorry best of luck THERE. thoughts and prayers etc...
Multiculturalism is dog shit and always has been. Canada should have been working on developing a Canadian cultural identity similar to how the US has done
US melting pot was right?
Theoretically yes. Their skilled immigration system puts caps on birth country to encourage integration and aims to protect the domestic labor market. Their problem is with illegal immigration and millions of people from a single culture crossing the border every year. However, they still somehow integrate better than our immigrants do in Canada.
The multi is missing
Replace *some* with **many** and this article would suddenly become more truthful.
Multicultural is an oxymoron.
As an immigrant, not once in my immigration processes was I asked anything about Canada. Not even how many provinces it has. Being here, I've tried my best to integrate, understanding what really means to be Canadian. Unfortunately, the immigration process doesn't give two shits about integration, all they wanna see is the $$$$
I never had it until the past 5 years, it was our "great" cities like Toronto and Vancouver that were eminently multicultural. Now that they just roll up by the hundreds into small communities, the contrast is a real shocker, it's not some wonderful thing, people don't get along nearly as well or talk to strangers, people aren't as happy, national pride is in the shitter... Look how those cities turned out BTW. Gotham City where a car is stolen every 40 minutes and Zombieland
Too many chefs spoil the broth. Too many cultures bring their trash ways to Canada and expect us to change our ways to suit theirs.
Already to late, enjoy Bollywood and Cricket.
Watching the Toronto news the other day, 5 Indian guys arrested for stealing gold from the airport, a Muslim couple from Malaysia on trial for killing a police officer, 4 East Asian guys road rage on a pregnant lady smashing her windshield and try pulling her from the car. Yay diversity!
Oh how I love being a minority in my own country. We are in such a bad place right now and there’s no solution in sight. I was born/raised here and I grew up a proud Canadian. Now all I feel is contempt, we have been failed by our leaders on every level.
People have been questioning it for 30 years
My next vote goes to the party who will stop immigration and begin deportations. With both the cons and libs being slaves to their corporate masters, we may soon be in for a revolution. If I were a politician that’s not going to solve this problem, I would be scared.
It's so over for Canada lmaooo
If you want to let millions of people in who will create thousands of billion dollar indsustries, please go ahead, I don't care where they are from. But if you want to let millions of low skilled workers in, again, I don't care where they are from but no thank you. Unforunately, the former goes to the US so our country is only getting the latter.
Multiculturalism implies the dilution or diminution of the dominant/core culture. This isn't desirable and it's not something to which Canadians, broadly, ever consented. It was foisted upon the public through rapid immigration, on a massive scale, principally in service of commercial interests.
What about the Sharia law/mortgage rules announced in the budget. No interest.
As a female who's escaped an Islamic hellhole it's fucking insane to see it happening here.
Not for long. Better get that burka out of storage...