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You didn't qualify the circumstances. Asking for an investigation is certainly not a crime. If there is reasonable evidence that a crime was committed, the thing should be investigated, doesn't matter who did it even if it was the president or the secretary of state or whoever. It depends what you mean specifically by "pressure". If you mean the tweets, Trump admits to saying things to deliberately get a rise out of people. But those tweets are not executive orders, most of them are just incendiary BS with no follow up. They have no teeth. Based on his own admission I suspect they're not even supposed to. In that light they can only be called offensive and "wrong". But I asked what has he actually done, not his self-admitted rhetoric.

In a transparent attempt at getting more ethnic votes, the Liberals announced that they are increasing the immigration rate to 350,000 per year from the present 300,000 which was raised just two years ago from 250,000. This comes on top of census information that says Canada's foreign born population is already by far the highest in the western world at over 20%. The US and UK, by comparison, are at about 13%. Canada's foreign-born population was already going to rise to about 29% in twenty years according to the census, but this increase will accelerate that. So soon a third of Canadians will be foreign born - and the number will rise from there. The supposed justification is that Canada needs more people because of our aging population and a shortage of workers. Both are outright lies, but have been said so often they're rarely questioned. Especially since anyone who questions them gets called a racist, and because the other parties are eager for those ethnic votes too. The Fraser Institute has calculated the cost of our present immigration system at over $30 billion per year to all three levels of government based on the earnings of immigrants - who perform more poorly than Canadian born workers - vs how much government must spend on them. Furthermore, immigration CAN NOT keep our percentage of retirees from rising. Even Stats Can says so. A second study in less than a week has concluded that there is no labour shortage in Canada, nor is one expected to arrive in the next few decades. A study published Friday by a University of Lethbridge professor echoes results of a report by the federal government’s Parliamentary Budget Office released Tuesday — both conclude there are more than enough workers on a national basis in Canada to fill available jobs. http://www.calgaryherald.com/business/Study+debunks+Canadian+labour+shortage/9674478/story.html Dire warnings of a widespread Canadian labour crisis and a “lost generation” of young workers have been overblown, according to a market analysis by TD Economics. Deputy chief economist Derek Burleton says demographic and economic shifts may be hitting young workers particularly hard, but he doesn’t believe projections of across-the-board labour shortages and skills gaps. http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/10/21/skills-gap-canada-labour-shortage_n_4138487.html Our population would be stabilized with immigration at only 100,000 http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/91-003-x/2007001/figures/4129879-eng.htm Canada would have to take in 2.6 million immigrants a year by 2020 and seven million by 2050 — raising its population to 165.4-million — if it wants to keep its ratio of retirees-toworkers at its current 20%, according to a study from the C.D. Howe Institute.

Almost 24 hours has passed and no one seems to be able to locate any evidence in support of the US government official conspiracy theory. How is this possible? You all saw it on TV with your own eyes, right? Yeaahh, I did! The plane done ran smack dab into the towers. The sekond one went right thru wtc2 and the engine done flew over ta murray street. Funny, it t'warnt' the actual engine from Younited175 but hells bells I always believes my guvmint!

Well, that is the reason given. However, one of those Statistics Canada studies I posted in the OP said that we could maintain our population with just 100,000 immigrants a year. So why are we moving towards 350,000? Second, I hate to harp on this, but given our progressive tax system, in which the bottom half of Canadians only pay 3% of the income tax while the top half pay the other 97%, if our immigrants are earning poor wages they're not contributing taxes, they're consuming them. That is why we should be taking only the most skilled and capable of immigrants able to earn decent salaries. And does anyone think those 60-70k 'refugees' we're bringing in every year, who have no job skills, little education, no language skills, etc. are going to be making high salaries?

Sorry but this is just oft-repeated BS. There are no jobs that no one is willing to do... just jobs that no one is willing to do for rock bottom wages. The way capitalism is supposed to work is when labour gets scarce, companies compete for workers by raising wages and improving benefits and working conditions. Instead, the very same people that criticize companies for paying rock bottom wages (i.e. liberals) also are in complete support of the main mechanism by which wages are kept so low... flooding the labour markets with masses of immigrants that are willing to do any job for a low price as they get settled in. Stop the flood of cheap labour and all those businesses that will supposedly shut down without immigration will just have to pay better wages, wages which will actually allow their workers to live reasonably in the cities they serve. And they'll have to raise their prices a bit to compensate. Boo-freaking-hoo.

A higher minimum wage combined with a large influx of new Canadians, ensures us that we'll see rising unemployment rates and massive amounts of tax dollars doled out to support these new Canadians. Part of the issue is that governments are judged largely on their ability to increase the GDP. For some reason I don't understand, economists tell us we must be ever-increasing the GDP. We aren't allowed to stand still and enjoy the relative prosperity. Instead, our nation must consume more and more, to show that we're progressing environment, shmironment. To preserve the few traditions and bit of culture that we're still allowed to celebrate, we should be looking at ways to boost the number of children born to Canadian families. I know so many people that can't afford to have children, or limit themselves to one or two due to the costs. Maybe some tax breaks along those lines would help us boost our population without further watering down our culture.

No, he's speaking in the context where he doesn't care that he lives on the graveyard of a people that were almost completely exterminated, while taking joy in criticizing every action of another nation that is simply trying to survive. And unlike Canada and the US, where European colonists exterminated 95-99% of the existing population (through a combination of deliberate extermination and disease), the Palestinian population in Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank is growing and the people there are safer from being killed due to violence than in most of their neighboring countries.

I doubt it. http://www.mapleleafweb.com/forums/search/?&q="you are a racist" You can argue against immigration and not be called a racist easily. If you post that you hate brown people, therefore there should be no immigration well then what do you expect ?

I've been called a racist on every topic on immigration, until they banned that word and then they resorted to xenophobic and other substitutes.

I've seen it often enough. I'm sure Argus will be called a racist in this thread before long.

I don't know, that sounds like a bit of an exaggeration of the extent of the problem. But there's no doubt that transit and road infrastructure is severely inadequate since it takes decades to build and by the time it's complete the population is double what it was designed for. Similarly, rapidly growing population also brings with it rapid rise in housing prices, making these cities less affordable. Additionally, there is the environmental damage caused by rapid growth and sprawl. The problem is even mentioning any of this as a downside of immigration gets one labeled a racist.

Unemployment is low, and the 'fixed pie fallacy' has already been pointed out to you many times. Your opinions are so uninformed, but at least they never change due to enlightenment. You represent your cohort perfectly with such statements.