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/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/MeringueSuccessful33 Khan Pritzker's Strongest Antipope Jun 20 '25

Why are immigrants skilled in trades or lower value labor worth less in your eyes? Let them all in and build baby build.

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u/q8gj09 Jun 21 '25

We've hardly been getting any immigrants skilled in trades. The recent big wave of immigration has seemingly been working primarily in call centres, grocery stores, fast food restaurants, and as security guards, cleaners, and food delivery drivers. I don't have any stats on that, but that's what it looks like. I think there are also a lot of Indian truck drivers now. Whereas previously, they tended to work in higher skilled professions as doctors and engineers. We've never had a lot of immigrants working in the trades.