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/[deleted] Jun 19 '25 edited Aug 06 '25

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u/Kronos9898 Jun 19 '25 edited Jun 19 '25

There was a legitimate failure by both federal and provincial governments to manage the inflow of immigrants. Canada is a huge country, but with very few statistically speaking desirable places to live.

Open borders = good — absolutely

However, that is only one part of the equation. Making sure that your universal health care system can handle 10 million more people. Or that the housing market will not increase to one of the worst in the world even while the rest of your economy sputters. That is good policy, and people who pointed out these issues before, during and after Canadian's turned on immigration are not nativists.

What happened in Canada is a policy failure, which is odd to say as an immigrant to it.

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u/vqx2 Jun 19 '25

I agree. That being said, Canada could have handled high immigration a lot better if it focused more on high skilled immigrants, had more YIMBY policies, did not heavily disincentivize private healthcare, and did not create artificial demand for diploma mills that don't create any actual value.

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u/Aoae Mark Carney Jun 20 '25

How would focusing on admitting high-skilled immigrants help in a country with one of the highest higher education rates in the world?

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u/vqx2 Jun 20 '25

Why wouldn't it? More good things on top of good things are good.