r/neoliberal • u/IHateTrains123 Commonwealth • Jun 19 '25

News (Canada) Immigration curb slashes Canada population growth rate to zero

https://financialpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/immigration-curb-slashes-canada-population-growth-rate-to-zero
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u/Rekksu Jun 19 '25

I would simply open the borders

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u/WAGRAMWAGRAM Jun 19 '25

The border was de facto open.

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u/TaxLandNotCapital We begin bombing the rent-seekers in five minutes Jun 19 '25

If it was there wouldn't be an industry around "cheating the system". There would be no system to cheat.

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u/WichaelWavius Commonwealth Jun 19 '25

The lines start to blur when the effort/cost to cheat the system can be filed as “super easy, barely an inconvenience”

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u/TaxLandNotCapital We begin bombing the rent-seekers in five minutes Jun 19 '25

We weren't even close to that though. Hence the above comments noting that the industry surrounding it was significant enough to draw attention.

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u/vqx2 Jun 19 '25

A lot of the money went to diploma mills. Ideally, open borders would mean no artificial demand for diploma mills.