Short lived were the days of the mid-2010s where wokeness could be portrayed as a new phenomenon mostly confined to college campuses. Conservatives realized it wasn’t true that the blue-haired Social Justice Warriors of viral YouTube clips would soon be meeting ‘the real world’, with its lack of safe spaces – ‘the real world’ was […]
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When was the last time that you idled in Vancouver gridlock, stood packed like a sardine in a bus to Victoria, or hunted for a parking spot at the Nanaimo Costco, and thought: “You know, what this country needs is more people”? Probably never. However, a large portion of Canada’s political elite has turned this
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During the past couple of weeks, there has been a striking move towards lowering immigration levels in England and Australia, with New Zealand’s government hinting that it may follow suit. England: Bipartisan Consensus on Immigration Restriction in the Green and Pleasant Land? British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has for some time been under considerable pressure
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A Leger poll commissioned by Canadians for a Sustainable Society, a Canadian environmentalist organization, contains striking insights into public attitudes on a variety of topics, including immigration levels: What Canadians Want (Leger, May 5th 2023, commissioned by Canadians for a Sustainable Society, sample size of 1,500, survey conducted online) I have compiled some of the
In the last few days, two new polls on Canadian immigration attitudes have been released from respected polling firms Leger and Abacus. The data shows that skepticism of large-scale immigration continues to increase among Canadians. Thresholds and Tensions: Unmasking Public Unease with Canada’s Immigration Goals (Abacus, November 30th, sample size of 2,000) Immigration Plan: Survey
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“Our health is our most valuable asset.” Because access to healthcare is government controlled in Canada, Canadians are largely reliant on our government to protect this asset. Unfortunately, this Canadian asset and in thousands of cases life itself are being squandered by both the provincial and federal governments across Canada. Healthcare is under the jurisdiction
Canada’s doctor shortage, largely driven by population growth through immigration, is becoming increasingly acute. This situation is being exacerbated by the foreign visa trainee program, which allows medical schools to allocate residency spots to foreign nationals. Doctors are required to compete for scarce residency spots before being licensed to practice. Because Canadian medical schools prioritize
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Canada now plays host to 807,750 foreign students, 770,000 temporary workers, and 500,000 new immigrants being admitted annually. As a group, they represent mass immigration. Most of these people settle and are concentrated in a few parts of Canada, nowhere more so than southern Ontario and southern BC. Their numbers are rising annually and the 500,000 new
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A few weeks ago, PIC made a tweet about sprawl. Twitter, as you likely know, limits the number of characters, including spaces, in a tweet to 280, so one must be terse. The tweet read: “You want to stop sprawl but won’t talk about population growth? Then you’re fixating on a symptom but ignoring the
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Crisis? What crisis? Following the cabinet shuffle in July, Canada’s freshly minted immigration minister, Marc Miller, has repeatedly reiterated that his government is not considering reducing immigration levels despite Canada’s housing crisis. The competition for housing is so intense that house prices have doubled since Miller’s boss, Justin Trudeau, came to power in 2015. The impacts of this
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