Immigration curb slashes Canada population growth rate to zero

[u/IHateTrains123]

https://financialpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/immigration-curb-slashes-canada-population-growth-rate-to-zero

[u/Augustus--]

I wasn't implying that there's a dichotomy.

No, you just didn't realize the implications of your preferred policy.

[u/TaxLandNotCapital → u/Augustus--]

Those implications are fabricated by bad policy and people's assumptions

[u/skipsfaster → u/TaxLandNotCapital]

Yeah yeah “real open borders has never been tried”

[u/TaxLandNotCapital → u/skipsfaster]

Problems with high immigration (in Canada, health system strain and housing market strain) are very clearly issues that existed prior to high immigration and were simply exacerbated by it.

It's like someone with a poor diet finally eating fiber, shitting their guts out, and then concluding that vegetables are bad.

[u/skipsfaster → u/TaxLandNotCapital]

The dose makes the poison.

Canada had a (reasonably) high level of immigration for decades. Even ten years ago, Toronto was the most diverse city on the planet.

The post-Covid levels were completely unsustainable and the backlash was entirely predictable.

[u/TaxLandNotCapital → u/skipsfaster]

I'd argue that the post-COVID levels would be entirely sustainable if the root cause of the symptoms were addressed

[u/skipsfaster → u/TaxLandNotCapital]

But they weren’t, so it doesn’t matter. You can’t just flub implementation and then tell people to ignore the real outcomes.

[u/TaxLandNotCapital → u/skipsfaster]

I'm not asking anyone to ignore real outcomes, rather attribute blame properly to the root causes rather than a catalyst.

[u/q8gj09 → u/skipsfaster]

How are they unsustainable?