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  • grte@lemmy.catoCanada@lemmy.ca•12 international students at Calgary protest referred to CBSA office after status check
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    vor 10 Tagen

    Here is a hot take. Most of our housing crisis was from people abusing our Student visa program. It was dishonest and corrupt from the getgo. The students were trapped in worthhless diploma mills and were not on a path to citizenship anyways.

    In that case, the people abusing the system were the diploma mills scamming foreigners and we should probably be pursuing legal action against such entities. But even so, letting those scammed students stay if they want benefits us because it provides both a consumer and producer of value to add to our society.

    We couldn’t build housing fast enough so we get rooming houses, soaring rents and investor driven real estate prices. Notice how rents and prices have fallen significantly since we stopped this. It’s not anti-immigrant. Its closing a loophole. We needed to catch a breather.

    They’ve fallen somewhat, but so have housing starts so this is short term relief that isn’t doing anything to fix the issue. The truth is that, it isn’t that we can’t build housing fast enough, it’s that we are choosing not to build fast enough because so many of the decision makers in our society have their wealth tied up in real estate. Until the government is directly building housing, we are not taking this problem seriously.

    We still have abuse of the TFW program to deal with. Kids still can’t get jobs because employers prefer the abuseability of TFW.

    I would say that the TFW program isn’t immigration at all. It’s a labour disciplining program. It should be eliminated entirely because we shouldn’t be having second class not-citizens in our society. But we should be bringing in similar amounts of people with the aim of making them full citizens who aren’t in a position to be abused the way TFWs are.

  • grte@lemmy.catoCanada@lemmy.ca•12 international students at Calgary protest referred to CBSA office after status check
    10·
    vor 10 Tagen

    This turn against immigration is really the dumbest, most self-defeating thing Canada can be getting up to. You know why the US presents such a threat to us? Because they represent a productive capacity of around ~340 million people while we represent a productive capacity of ~40 million people. They managed that by having extremely lenient citizenship requirements (for whites, but we can adopt similar policy without the racism) for most of their history.

    Pursuant to this power, Congress in 1790 passed the first naturalization law for the United States, the Naturalization Act of 1790. The law enabled those who had resided in the country for two years and had kept their current state of residence for a year to apply for citizenship. However, it restricted naturalization to “free white persons” of “good character”. Oddly, the law authorized any “court of record” to perform naturalization. In other words, for over 110 years, any federal or state court of record could naturalize a qualified applicant.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_immigration_and_nationality_law_in_the_United_States

    Which, far from collapsing, turned it into the wealthiest and most productive country on Earth at the time.

  • grte@lemmy.catoCanada@lemmy.ca•Winnipeg man pleads guilty to advocating genocide and wilfully promoting hatred in social media posts
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    vor 23 Tagen

    Lots of people are swimming in a sea of American media. American personalities, American stories, American cultural touchstones. This effect is taken to extremes in the extremely online right, as there is a sort of transnational fascism emanating from there. This is why you get people who think Miranda rights are a thing in Canada, or the various amendments to the US Constitution apply. It’s also why we need to defend Canadian media. For better or worse, many people’s knowledge of the world around them comes from the media they consume. And an unfortunate number of Canadians are spiritually American as a result. For example, the premier of my province who thought premiers had the same power of pardon that US governors have, despite being an MLA for years and really having no excuse to not know this.

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