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I caught a snippet of an interview with Thomas Sowell from about ten years back on immigration. He said that years ago we (they) did in depth studies of how immigrants performed from each country because we (they) weren't afraid to say immigration existed to benefit the country and not to be nice. They wanted the best immigrants possible. As a timely example he talked about how Obama had put a freeze on deporting about five million long-term immigrants. Sowell said that to determine whether they should stay you needed to know more about how they'd done. If they were MIT graduates in engineering let them stay. If they'd graduated with a social studies degree from Berkely, get rid of them (joking). I guarantee you the Trudeau government knows nothing about the illegal immigrants here that they're now looking to make legal. And it rarely studies the outcomes of immigration. When such studies are undertaken they ignore them. Because the purpose of immigration is not the well-being of the country in any sense. It's purely political. Making a bunch of people legal who are dirt poor who can now go on welfare is not exactly good for the country. As to India, who knows how they perform as a group? If the government has done any new studies on this subject they're not making the results public. The last time the Immigration department did such a study it was pretty clear that immigrants from Europe and other Western states earned far more in Canada than from anywhere else. In some cases the difference between regions was 100%-200%. Did that cause the government to prioritize immigration from Europe and western countries and make it harder to get in from those countries/regions where immigrants performed poorly, such as the ME and north Africa? Of course not!

Who's going to win the next Quebec provincial election?

Nothing so epitomizes the politically correct gullibility of our times as the magic word “diversity.” The wonders of diversity are proclaimed from the media, extolled in the academy and confirmed in the august chambers of the Supreme Court of the United States. But have you ever seen one speck of hard evidence to support the lofty claims? What are the alleged “compelling” benefits of “diversity“? They are as invisible as the proverbial emperor’s new clothes. Yet everyone has to pretend to believe in those benefits, as they pretended to admire the naked emperor’s wardrobe. Thomas Sowell

It only takes one thing to inspire them, and Quebec's many separatist parties will hold a referendum and perhaps win this time and then Quebec will be a separate country fighting natives in the north who don't want to go and threatening east-west traffic between the two separated parts of Canada.

If there are so many you have to claim you no longer have the ability to even interview prospective immigrants ahead of time to choose the best ones, then that constitutes 'mass'.

That is not in my nature. When people offend me I tend to do my best to return the favor. As you may have noticed on occasion.

This is not a reply likely to engender respectful dialogue, y'know. Some types?

Harper introduced a bill that would criminalize the support for a terrorist group. We need to bring that back and pass it.

That makes no sense. Plus, I don't believe it since there is usually a competitive back and forth between the Liberals and NDP in our bigger cities. Got any of this 'research' you mention? They vote often enough to have the three major parties salivating for their votes, attending every cultural festival and begging for votes at every mosque and temple they can find. You think Trudeau isn't changing our foreign policy to please the immigrants? He's certainly not doing it out of principle. Prior to the first election he won Trudeau promised to double the number of elderly immigrants who can be sponsored over. How is that responsible? Apparently the promise won him sufficient votes he did it again the second and third elections. I think he did that because it won him votes from certain new immigrant communities. Now, I tend to agree with you that the fear that cutting immigration will outrage all immigrants is nonsense. But it doesn't have to. Suggesting you do it will enable the other parties and the media to portray you as anti immigrant, xenophobic and racist. Which is why there isn't a single politician in English Canada at any level who dares to call for immigration to be cut.

Would you like me to post the G&M article covering why Mulroney tripled immigration back in the 80s because his immigration minister convinced cabinet new immigrants became loyal party supporters of the party in power when they arrived as soon as they get to vote? It's not done for our benefit, but for theirs. I don't know what has given you the idea Conservatives, much less conservatives think Poilievre is a genius. He's a political animal. And he knows that half the population of Toronto and Vancouver are immigrants. He's also way out ahead. The last thing he needs is to allow the Lib/NDP, with their media allies to jump up and down screaming he's anti-immigrant. Which they WOULD do. His most recent comment, when pressed, was that he would tie immigration numbers to our healthcare resources and our ability to build housing as well as the economy. That 'suggests' to the base who want immigration slashed that he will take action while giving the Lib/NDP/media no real ammunition to attack him since what he said is inarguable common sense.

Thanks Greg. Some of us don't acknowledge that everything here is on you. One quibble... a bit of warning before changing over next time please? Even ten seconds!? Just long enough to save.

Canada's economy shrank in the third quarter, and we only avoided a technical recession because Stats Canada 'revised' the previous quarter to show a rise in GDP instead of the fall they had previously reported. I leave it to the reader to imagine why they did that. GDP per person would not go down if you were taking care to only bring in skilled immigrants who would earn high salaries and generate higher economic activity. GDP per person goes down when you bring in a lot of low income/low production people instead. Which is what the Liberals have been doing. Real gross domestic product, which is adjusted for inflation, shrank at an annualized pace of 1.1 per cent in the third quarter, according to figures published by Statistics Canada on Thursday. The results were considerably weaker than the Bank of Canada’s estimate of 0.8-per-cent growth and Bay Street’s expectations of a slim 0.1-per-cent increase. Canada’s economic performance has increasingly diverged from that of the U.S., which posted a 5.2-per-cent expansion in the third quarter. Still, the economic situation looks more grim when soaring population growth is accounted for. GDP per capita – a popular measure of living standards – has fallen for five consecutive quarters. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/economy/article-canada-economy-gdp-third-quarter-2023/

30,000 Indians try to cross the border into the US from Canada. https://theprint.in/world/donkey-flight-held-in-paris-not-first-indians-are-trying-to-emigrate-to-us-in-record-numbers/1899135/

But it DECREASES GDP per person, which means we are less wealthy and less productive. Canada's population grew by 430k in the third quarter and our GDP STILL shrank. Were it not for mass immigration our actual GDP would have dropped far, far more. Our GDP per capita, meanwhile, is on a long, downward slump.

Pence says otherwise.

For being supporters of a terrorist group.

Well, it's true security guards don't need to worry about farmers pointing shotguns at them, or hunters with long guns taking aim at their bellies. I suppose we can thank Trudeau for that except... was that ever happening before? I can't recall reading about it.

If the recruitment and assessment of candidates was on merit alone why are you even mentioning it? That's what most people want. Why is the Left determined to return to the days of racist hiring laws and rules that only serve to create resentment and to divide us?

Ordinary people maybe, but no institutions. Not in English Canada. Anyone who disagreed with or criticized immigration was dismissed as a racist/xenophobe.

Canada continues to get poorer as we we bring in hundreds of thousands of migrants. Our GDP per capita has dropped for five straight quarters now. It's rising in the US, though. I wonder why that would be... National Bank Financial recalculated Canada's GDP per capita after the release of 3Q ?? population data, which showed 3.2% population growth from year ago. Firm says Canada per-capita GDP fell a whopping 4.4% in 3Q. On WSJ wires: pic.twitter.com/I8q6mbj2ZP https://spencerfernando.com/2023/12/21/canadas-per-capita-gdp-is-collapsing/#:~:text=According to National Bank Financial%2C Canada’s per capita,rampant immigration – the drop is even worse%3A