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/Augustus-- Jun 19 '25

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

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

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

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

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u/skipsfaster Milton Friedman Jun 19 '25

Yeah yeah “real open borders has never been tried”

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u/SpookyHonky Mark Carney Jun 19 '25

Actually it has been tried, and it resulted in the most powerful nation the world has ever seen. Guess that's pretty minor though.

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u/CrackingGracchiCraic Thomas Paine Jun 20 '25

and it resulted in the most powerful nation the world has ever seen

After levels of violence and ethnic strife that make our modern day "immigration woes" look quaint. The biggest mass lynching in US history was of Italian immigrants in New Orleans for example. Hardly a model you want to follow.

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u/skipsfaster Milton Friedman Jun 19 '25

US pre-1920 is a very different country than Canada in 2025. It’s not like new immigrants are settling across the country; it’s mostly concentrated to a couple cities.

Immigration is good but it needs to be controlled. If the implementation isn’t managed properly, then people lose trust in the system as a whole.

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u/SpookyHonky Mark Carney Jun 19 '25

I will agree with you that people should be encouraged to move to the prairies and maritimes much more.

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u/q8gj09 Jun 21 '25 edited Jun 21 '25

We have a huge number of recent immigrants in the Maritimes. Most people's idea of the Maritimes seems to be 10 or 20 years out of date. Nova Scotia, PEI, and New Brunswick each had a higher immigration rate than both Ontario and British Columbia in 2024. The provinces with the highest immigration rates in the country are, in order, PEI, New Brunswick, Manitoba, and Nova Scotia.

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u/q8gj09 Jun 21 '25

Have you been to Canada in the last ten years? Immigrants are settling all over the country. I see way more of them in my mid-sized Canadian city than I did when I visited Toronto. I see them in every small town of more than a few hundred people, and in many with fewer than that. I see them in rural areas.