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It’s not that simple. Various Indigenous groups moved in and out of much of the country. In Ontario the Ottawas pushed out the southern tribes. What are now Six Nations pushed out the Hurons. Anishnabe and Six Nations moved in and out of each other’s farming areas, though the farms lasted maybe six years before the soil was stripped of nutrients and the clans packed up and moved elsewhere. For a long time settlers came without infringing on the traditional Indigenous lifestyles, and the exchanges helped both sides: guns for pelts, for example. The colonial confrontation that you’re describing is a bit of a Hollywood charicature. That’s not to say that there weren’t conflicts and disagreements over land, poor treaties or lack thereof, but it’s complicated. There weren’t a lot of shoot-outs in Canada. The settlers thought that they were offering all of the benefits of modern western civilization, including education, health, farming and manufacturing technology, etc. The wide open unsettled territory gradually shrank with immigration, which is accelerating today. The Indigenous lost and gained. To pretend that the Indigenous of today are living as they did before contact serves no one. Pretending that education and technology were destructive overall is disingenuous. Yes the settlers educated according to their values, but having an education was considered far more progressive than the alternative, including for Indigenous. Now, how it was done was another issue. Much should have been better. Again, this is a fairly recent critique about colonialism that people didn’t make more than about a half century ago. Bringing China into this doesn’t help. They do not treat those who don’t fall in line with mainstream society as well as we do. Indigenous in Canada receive more money and benefits than any ethnic groups, considering that property, income, HST, and other taxes aren’t collected from status Indians or those who who claim status and work on the reserve. Health, education, and much utility infrastructure are provided free by the federal government. The Indian Act, the reserve system, and the idea of special status should all be revisited and reformed, but doing so would be highly contentious. As long as it’s revenue neutral, Indigenous should decide on the reforms, but if more taxpayer money is asked, then the non-Indigenous must be involved in the changes. That’s why economic self-reliance is so critical to self-government. You can’t have one without the other. Without paying taxes or making an economic contribution to the services on and servicing of their land, it’s hard to justify having Indigenous at the centre of decision making.

I am very skeptical also. I do not trust our welfare recipient pro globalist politicians nor that lying and fake Canadian media. I am concerned of what may come this fall. One can only hope that they do not try to pull a fast one on us again like they did with this last covid hoax. One can only hope that one day those scum will finally face justice for their crimes that they have committed against Canadians and crimes against humanity. They deserve big time serious justice jail time. Works for me. ?

About the only major media where immigration is ever questioned is the Vancouver Sun. This is a piece on a report done by former BC deputy minister Don Wright, who has a PHD in economics from Harvard. His paper deals with how politicians have abandoned the middle class by allowing wages to stagnate. And immigration is a major part of that. “There seems to be a reluctance to challenge the arguments for growing immigration levels,” Wright says. “Perhaps that is because they have been repeated so often they are generally believed to be true. At least in part, however, it is because the promoters of large immigration numbers are quick to label as racist, parochial or small-minded any questioning of larger immigration numbers.” Wright finds flaws in the major rationales the powers that be put forth to justify Canada’s immigration levels, which in 2019 brought in a record 341,000 permanent residents, a target Trudeau last year hiked to 425,000 annually. The argument that Canada needs immigrants to offset the aging baby boom “sounds reasonable on the face of it,” says Wright. But then he shows that, since immigrants as a whole are not much younger than the existing population, it doesn’t make much of a difference. Encouraging people to work a little longer would be at least as powerful, he says, citing a study by the C.D. Howe Institute. A second standard Canadian explanation for large-scale immigration — that it grows GDP, or the overall economy — is promoted almost daily in the media by “somebody of influence,” says Wright. But hiking immigration mainly satisfies employers who want low-cost labour, the real-estate industry and financial institutions, he says. “The critical metric is not GDP; it is GDP per capita — and how it is distributed.” Another argument, which is pivotal to Wright’s thesis about the middle classes, is that employers claim they desperately need immigrants to fill jobs Canadians won’t do. “But when businesses complain about having difficulty finding enough workers, what this really means is that they cannot easily find the workers they want at a wage they want to pay,” Wright says. “But, within reasonable limits, this is a good thing. It forces employers to pay higher wages, provides better working conditions and drives the creative destruction that leads to higher productivity, more valuable products and better business models.” A thrust of Wright’s paper is that Canada’s conservative-minded companies have become the least productive in the OECD (a club of rich nations) because they’ve relied on low-wage workers to survive, rather than on innovation, which hikes productivity. https://vancouversun.com/opinion/columnists/douglas-todd-canada-has-abandoned-middle-class-says-b-c-s-former-top-civil-servant

I apologize for thread drift....And you are right about Canada being the best country .It has given me health care ,education, allowed me to build a medium sized company....

Your understanding of the. situation is so limited that any dialogue becomes pointless.

Canada's birthrate is below replacement; without immigration, we'll have declining population and that's not optimum for Canada. Even replacement immigration rates would end up in a stagnating economy. There's no indication that well-educated Europeans want to move here in numbers great enough to grow Canada's population so we're kind of stuck with selecting from who wants to come here. But, instead of relying on immigration to grow Canada's population, we should simply support Canadians having children. Huge baby bonuses to allow one parent to stay home and raise the kids, free education up to a Masters, tax-free kids stuff (not just clothes), better mental health support, better support for single parent families. The more Canadian kids we can grind out, the less immigration we'll need. Persuading people that they can afford kids will be the challenge, and would require a lot of government money. Or forcing businesses to pay workers a lot more money.

Please guys this thread is about the birth of best country in the world, Canada. It is about respect, equality, prosperity, love of family and neighbor, freedom and justice and respect and equality of women.

The concept of allowing liberty only by a vaccine passport is the most fascist thing I've heard of in quite a while. #Vaccine Fascism

The vaccine situation is screwed up. I know several people in health care refusing to get a second dose, until there is better clarity. Authoritities are forcing people to take an unapproved, experimental vaccine. It could lead to disaster.

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But we are doing great, just ask the banks and the real estate developers! lol. Canada is a huge place that's mostly empty, it's not that we can't fit more people, but you have to do it at a pace that the infrastructure can handle, and the culture can handle. Overpopulation isn't the problem, it's the pace of the changes and we can't keep up. Most Canadians aren't anti-immigration, but they also want the government to do it in a way where the needs of Canadians that live here are respected. Because then it just causes resentment towards immigrants, which is terrible and wrong because it's not the fault of immigrants at all, it's the fault of government.

I've done my part and don't get paid if you "buy it".

What nonsense. So whoever has the oldest traceable bloodline in a place gets all? People are people. The Nazis preached a similar belief about the real Germans who could trace their roots back to the Aryans who settled there from India. They called them the master race who deserved to lord over and even exterminate inferiors. No race or ethnicity is better than any other and none deserves more than anyone else on the basis of ethnicity alone.

You think that man and his imperfect vision should be in the Holy of Holies. V. Lenin, Mao, or some other dude becomes deified, desecrating the transcendent. You have a limited notion of the lofty and sacred. You’re a moral relativist. All can be rationalized. The Creator is reduced to the mundane. People are reduced to numbers because there’s no soul or spiritual. Materialism, absurdly, futility, nothingness... Anything goes in a universe devoid of meaning or purpose. You create your own meaning. I know that ground well and don’t have a problem with atheists who understand their ignorance, but your judgment of religious people is arrogant and unfounded. You really don’t know what lies beyond. No one does. The religious person has faith. You may not, but don’t expect respect from those who do if you don’t respect them. Your comments are discriminatory and you should apologize.

Fortunately world is a large place and it's always possible to compare. Norway population, 1980 - 2020: 4.1 to 5.4 million, 32.5% Finland population, same period: 4.8 to 5.5, 14.6% Canada population, same period: 24.5 to 38 million, 55% By these numbers one should expect Canada to do much better than Norway and a lot, Finland. Now take a look at the reality.

Besides housing prices, I don't think these hikes are related to immigration. There's bigger economic issues at play, immigrants shouldn't be scapegoated for all of them. Deregulation, free-trade are big factors too.

What fake news outlets has he aligned himself with? Please don't trot out Rebel as that has been easily explained. But I am not sure we are on the topic of this alleged white pride stuff.