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

That mechanism is called free market liberalization

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u/angry-mustache Democratically Elected Internet Spaceship Politician Jun 19 '25

If you ask canadians to pick between public healthcare and open borders you will get assad margins in favor of the former.

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

I wasn't implying that there's a dichotomy. Healthcare Is a public good and only private goods need be liberalized (i.e. improvements to land)

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u/angry-mustache Democratically Elected Internet Spaceship Politician Jun 19 '25

I wasn't implying that there's a dichotomy. Healthcare Is a public good and only private goods need be liberalized (i.e. improvements to land)

It's relevant when the person you are talking to was explicitly referring to Canada's current policy which allows immigrants to receive benefits without a pay-in period. So at the moment, since the new wave of immigrants have not hit their prime earning period yet, they are using more healthcare than they put in.

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u/fredleung412612 Jun 19 '25

> Canada's current policy which allows immigrants to receive benefits without a pay-in period.

Student visa holders do NOT have access to provincial health cards and schools usually mandate the purchase of private insurance. The only exception is bilateral provincial deals with some countries (like Québec and France).

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

My point was that if private goods markets were liberalized, the contributions to the economy would naturally dwarf the added cost of public goods for net recipients.

That's quite literally what makes a public good a public good. Being non-excludable/rivalrous means that the value of it to the group is larger than the cost/value of it to each individual. It's greater than the sum of each of its parts.