> Access to medical services continues to be the same thing that Canadians have complained about for decades. Everyone bitches about it, but all-in-all, they are fine.
Ontario's health-care system is collapsing. In the past year several emergency rooms have been forced to close, and 9-11 calls have gone unanswered or faced severe delays.
People are not fine. It's a multi-faceted issue, sure, but ramping up immigration is pouring fuel on the fire.
> 'It's become a controversy among the fringe-right' is not a sufficient metric for telling me that there's a problem. All sorts of normal things have a tendency to turn into controversies for those folks.
It's disingenuous to write-off any concerns about immigration about immigration as right-wing histeria. I quite left-leaning, pro-immigration, and believe in having strong social programs; however, Canada's current immigration policy is a band-aid covering an ever-growing wound.
> What are the actual issues? Money laundering through the Canadian real estate markets? That's not an immigration problem, that's a ML problem, and it could be fixed by not selling permanent residencies to 'investors' building sham self-dealing companies.
A major "actual issue" is that Canada's economy is largely predicated on real estate continously growing 20% year-over-year. Real estate is one of the, if not THE, largest sectors in several provinces. Millions of people don't have a retirement plan beyond "sell my house for 5-10x what I paid for it", and having massive levels of immigration definitely plays into that (far more than foreign home ownership does).
Ontario's health-care system is collapsing. In the past year several emergency rooms have been forced to close, and 9-11 calls have gone unanswered or faced severe delays.
People are not fine. It's a multi-faceted issue, sure, but ramping up immigration is pouring fuel on the fire.
> 'It's become a controversy among the fringe-right' is not a sufficient metric for telling me that there's a problem. All sorts of normal things have a tendency to turn into controversies for those folks.
It's disingenuous to write-off any concerns about immigration about immigration as right-wing histeria. I quite left-leaning, pro-immigration, and believe in having strong social programs; however, Canada's current immigration policy is a band-aid covering an ever-growing wound.
E.g., https://www.reddit.com/r/canada/comments/1049ykb/opinion_its...
> What are the actual issues? Money laundering through the Canadian real estate markets? That's not an immigration problem, that's a ML problem, and it could be fixed by not selling permanent residencies to 'investors' building sham self-dealing companies.
A major "actual issue" is that Canada's economy is largely predicated on real estate continously growing 20% year-over-year. Real estate is one of the, if not THE, largest sectors in several provinces. Millions of people don't have a retirement plan beyond "sell my house for 5-10x what I paid for it", and having massive levels of immigration definitely plays into that (far more than foreign home ownership does).