Will Canada remain an attractive destination for immigrants?
Will Canada remain an attractive destination for immigrants?
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let's hope so. diversity is the spice of life.
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Yes? Land is cheap, space is available, and it borders the US.
Who it’s attractive to will change over time however.
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Land ain't cheap where most of the immigrants end up going. Canada still offers a better quality of life but that will dimminish over time if housing issue is not addressed.
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What we need is further investment in tech hub towns and cities, like Halifax did. In places that don’t burn/flood seasonally and have a reliable power supply. If that got spread out, housing wouldn’t be as much of an issue.
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that will [diminish] over time if housing issue is not addressed.
Housing and Benefits funding are intertwined. It's easy to kick the temporaries out, but no country will want to kick out the tax-paying short-timers who will eventually return home LONG before they retire and start really needing our support. Cost/Benefit-wise, our declining population needs TFWs who (outside aggra) pay high taxes and need fewer services, to stay afloat, like any caring nation needs.
The nordics have really figured this out, and despite a nine year waiting list for rentals in some urban centers, they still have TFWs and can still afford to maintain infrastructure.
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Indigenous person here from northern Ontario .... I think immigration is a good thing for this country ... the more diversity and mixing that happens, the better it is everyone in general. Canada was founded on the mixing of cultures, races, ideas and religions ... even though a small segment of society wanted to identify themselves as the dominant ones. In the face of one colonial culture that wanted to dominate everyone and everything ... diversity was always in the background driving the country's development (most often against the will of a minority few).
I can't change who I am nor my ideas nor my culture nor my race ... I live how I was taught and the same goes for everyone else and their backgrounds.
The change that happens is gradual and happens over generations. The ones to come after us will mix my culture with yours and anyone else and will create a new hybrid culture that may or may not be the same as mine or yours. They will always keep elements of our past but they will combine them with the best (or the worst) of who their descendants were.
The diversity I like to think about is not the diversity we have now or want to magically create today ... the diversity I like to imagine is the one we will leave behind once we are gone.
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Canada is really attractive, but most immigrants think Canada is made up solely of Toronto and Vancouver.
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It's because the jobs are concentrated in those areas. Yes, other provinces have some work but relative to Toronto and Vancouver it's pretty light. I got lucky and moved to Kitchener last year, but what i really wanna do is live on Vancouver Island. Some day!
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To add to that, most immigrants coming through the skilled worker's programs work in specialized professions that are heavily concentrated around major urban centers.
If you look at the cut-off points for the last two years, the trend has been really high, mostly focusing on people under 30, with high level of English/French, and master's or PhDs.
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Remote work showed that offices can be pretty much anywhere.
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what i really wanna do is live on Vancouver Island.
Moved away for work. The market is okay in ONE region.
Work with me to transform Ocean Falls into a Remote Work Mecca. Two mixed-use towers and we're done.
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most immigrants think Canada is made up solely of Toronto and Vancouver.
To be brutally honest, I suspect most Torontonians and Vancouverites kinda feel the same. Sometimes Ottawa.
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From Vancouver, can confirm
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It will, but a lot of these immigrants are going to struggle to get housing and good jobs and some of them may even leave to greener pastures.
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Just wait for the warm farmable longitudes to start turning into deserts.
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That's when we get eminent domain'd by the US.
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You may not be wrong. It depends on how things play out though. How quickly, what happens to our population numbers by then. Whether the US remains whole or the blue states separate. There may be more interesting permutations than a peaceful annexation.
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https://archive.ph/dYX4I - Trees -> Savannah, so it's a similar change already.
If only we protected our forests like we want Brazil to protect its own.
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😔 brutal.
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As an immigrant myself, yes. It is very attractive just by the fact that Canada's government isn't 100% corrupt and it's honestly very family friendly. Sure, there are problems, but they pale in comparison to a lot of other countries'.
It took me 5 months to find a good job (that wasn't service) - so competition is tough and the initial steps are ridiculously expensive, but it's all good. Infrastructure and systems are suffering right now, but in the next 20 years, I'm confident it will catch up.
The corruption is getting worse every year though
Although global corruption is increasing, Canada is still one of the least corrupt countries in the world. According to the CPI, we are the 14th least corrupt country in the world
I know one political party loves to screech about this, but do you have numbers?
Is it worse than the same year where we signed FIPA into law and then, same year, a backdoor for China into our customs database? I think that was a rough year for us and our self-worth, but awesome for comedians.
It's really easy to say something like that when you're blind to the actual corruption in the world. We have it incredibly good here in Canada - you must be quite privileged to lead a life where you think we are massively corrupt, since you have nothing to compare it to.