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Since 1975 or so, immigration has not been to Canada's benefit. The people that have come here have not been able to contribute more to Canadian society than they have taken from it. For every productive immigrant, there have been two looters living off of the welfare state, enjoying all of its benefits, and still saying bad things about the society which welcomed them. Canada has a lot of building to do just to satisfactorily house the people who are here. Its economy has to catch up to all the new people. Wages have to rise so we can lower taxes. We must have a complete moratorium on immigration, except for the most extreme cases of refugees. We must also root out those who have ideologies which are not compatible with Canada's rule of law. Religious freedom does not overrule the rule of law. Most religious denominations can live within the rule of law, and there should be no argument with them. Some wish to impose their own Sharia Law, and they must be banned from this country. They are a threat to our civilization, peace, and people, and should be deported as they are doing now in Austria.

Immigration = Housing Crisis + Lower Wages + Higher Welfare + More Crime + More Taxes + Worse Education + Worse Healthcare = Bad for any Western country

International agreements are only guidelines. Canada's sovereignty must always take priority over an international agreement. Our participation in any international agreement should be based on whether Canada receives a tangible benefit, or whether Canadians have to pay more taxes. If Canadians have to pay more taxes or higher prices or higher fees, Canada must abrogate the agreement. Canada first!

I think we have to stop referring to them as "refugees" or "asylum-seekers". They have already received asylum in a safe third country, which is the United States. Therefore none of them have any right to be in Canada. Coming over the border illegally makes them all criminals. They are "illegal immigrants" or "illegal aliens" or just "illegals". They should all be rounded up and deported.

We would not need a referendum on unilateral Free Trade. An Objectivist government would just drop all tariffs to zero.

As a Quebec resident I assure you I am 100% opposed to transfer payments from the rest of Canada. I do not receive government payments, and I am not in a union. The transfer payments are keeping Quebec down, despite what you may think. They are killing enterprise, opportunity, and jobs. If Quebec can balance with equalization payments, they can balance without them. Normal Quebec people live a lower lifestyle, while the bureaucratic, union, and political classes are cleaning up. There are only 4 jurisdictions which are poorer than Quebec in North America. So I support Jason Kenney and anyone else 100% when they are opposed to 'equalization payments'. They should be cancelled immediately.

The problem with the EU is that it is a bureaucratic dictatorship with very little accountability to the average man and woman on the street. Canada and the US are also bureaucratic dictatorships, with slightly fewer bureaucrats per capita. The problem with bureaucracy is that it governs in its own interest, and not in that of the producers of society. If you want to learn more about this phenomenon, read up on Social Choice Theory. It is an exact science, and every Canadian intuitively knows that "they are only in it for themselves". Social Choice Theory is correct. Socialism and bureaucracy are incorrect. Politicians spend money on the basis of the next election. Not because it is economically efficient. This should be outlawed. In Canada, taxes are double what they should be, because of bureaucracy. The more bureaucrats per thousand people, the higher the taxes, and the poorer your state becomes. Quebec is a perfect example of this. The highest taxes in North America, constant leeching off of the rest of Canada, and only 1 US state is poorer, which is Mississippi. Considering the territory, resources, and education of the Quebec people, this is completely ridiculous. Quebec should be pitching in, not taking out. In that case, all of Canada would prosper even more. And I am in Quebec, living by my own means. The basic problem of Quebec is that unions think they own the place. I have always hated unions. They pay lazy people the same as hard workers, and then the hard workers unconsciously say "Who is John Galt?" and become lazy themselves. As Jordan B. Peterson points out, when you put good disadvantaged kids with bad disadvantaged kids, the good kids become bad. Still, I find Peterson very lukewarm compared to pure Objectivism. A step in the right direction, but you do not criticize Ayn Rand for literary style. Anyone can do that! You learn Objectivism and make it your life's philosophy. Otherwise you are a mewling socialist, whether you call yourself a Conservative or not. Unilateral free trade worked brilliantly for Britain in 1851. It is widely argued this led to the Victorian boom which lasted until the 1920s. Living standards rose greatly. Many new technologies were invented. It may sound counterintuitive, but we have been brainwashed by collectivism and communism, which can even be found in the Conservative Party of Canada as it supports supply management (in Quebec, of course.) Trump says our supply management is killing US farmers, but it is also killing poor people in Canada as well, who bear the burden of this supply management monopoly the worst. Unintentionally or not, Trump is a friend of poor people in Canada, which is why many poor people in Canada are wearing MAGA hats, despite what snowflake SJW extreme-leftist victim groups want. What happens with unilateral free trade is that cheap goods will flood the Canadian market, raising Canadian living standards, and forcing Canadian companies to be more efficient to compete. This is why I like what Trump is doing. There is no way we can beat Trump at his game, however we can up our own game and let the chips fall as they may. Trump is forcing us to act like adults, instead of complacent government-dependent socialist collectivist communist babies. The problem for all of these foreign suppliers in unilateral free trade, then, is that they are now stuck with Canadian dollars. I tried to explain this to the PC Party in 1987, but they were having none of it. There is only one place you can spend Canadian dollars. And that is in Canada. Because our companies have somehow become more competitive (to compete with the flood of foreign goods), they are now able to supply all these foreigners with the goods and services we can supply. All and all, we still have a $2 trillion market, and that is something people all over the world will want a piece of. New technologies get invented, supply goes up, demand goes up, investment comes flooding in, and wages rise on the basis of hard work and not unions. In the current trade dispute with Donald Trump, by taxing on a 1-for-1 basis in "retaliation" to US actions, our extreme-left Liberal government is punishing Canadian consumers TEN TIMES AS MUCH PER CAPITA. Can you people get this into your thick skulls? The US action was an attempt to lower Canadian economic activity. The response should not be to lower it even more. Canada should have LOWERED tariffs, LOWERED corporate taxes, and LOWERED GST, while firing thousands of useless bureaucrats. To make matters even worse than that, now the extreme-left Liberal government is planning to subsidise these steel and aluminum producers to the tune of $800 million, which could have easily been spent on severance packages for bureaucrats. Oh, and guess where the aluminum producers are. Quebec. What the extreme-left Liberal government does not want to understand is that every time they interfere in the normal course of business in Quebec, they are taking away opportunity from the Quebec people. The people in Alberta are exactly right to complain about transfer payments always going to Quebec. It should be extremely embarrassing to be leeches like this. Every government handout makes it more difficult for the Quebec people to succeed. If we need to fire more bureaucrats, we simply abrogate their union contracts using the notwithstanding clause. If they resist, we bring in troops, police, replacement workers and AI software. Our freedoms are more important than their so-called collective rights. If there are agitators who are trying to foment socialist revolution, we put them in jail for treason. There is no compromise with Marxism. It is really sad that after all these years, I was able to get the nickname 'objectivist' on this site. Please learn Objectivism. It is the only pure capitalist philosophy. Please stop defining yourself on the political spectrum with left-wing Marxist murderers and looters. It is either right or wrong, and that is all we need to know. Socialism has murdered tens of millions of people, and there should be no compromise with socialism at all. Do you think it would ever happen, say once in a billion years, when a Canadian would say, "No, Ms. Government, I do not WANT your free stuff?" NULLUM GRATUITUM PRANDIUM.