Machjo

I disagree with the new tax the BC government introduced. However, maintaining housing prices is not the government's job. What about apple prices? Or watermelon prices. If you buy a house with the intent of living in it, by all means. But then it won't matter if prices drop since you won't be selling for some time anyway. And if you sell at a loss, at least you enjoyed years of living in it. If you buy a house as an investment, then expect it to fluctuate just like stocks. It's not up to the goverents to take sides between buyers and sellers.

I think we can learn from Sweden on this front. It has code termination laws like Germany, meaning that half of the board of directors of major companies are elected by the workers, but the chairman is elected by shareholders and his vote breaks any tie. Unions can negotiate a starting wage for their members. But hey this. First, Sweden also has right-to-work laws, so closed shops are prohibited. No one can be forced to join a union. Second, Sweden has no legal minimum wage. It has an officially recommended minimum wage below which a worker can quit his job or refuse the offer with no penalty in his ability to receive social assistance, but no obligatory minimum. As a result, unions have been able to negotiate their wages down in their best interest in tough economic times and so keep their jobs. In Canada, a union could not do that since it's the government that imposes the minimum wage. Result? Unemployment.

Either that or inflation, and inflation hurts the poor the most plus it undoes the wage increase in real terms. Like a dig chasing its tail.

What if immigrants just all bleached their faces white?

But then we could enjoy economies of scale, something we severely lack now.

Impossible. If all we do is import, the Canadian dollar would quickly plummet. Not necessarily a bad thing. Plus, we would still have the education advantage and the language advantage. Seems to have worked for Hong Kong. The weak dollar would attract tourists and international students too.

Your thoughts?

Any Canadian who doesn't like the slums would still be welcome to move to the free ports.

Effectively what it would mean is that all of Canada's cities with a maritime port such as Vancouver, Halifax, Toronto, Montreal (yes they have ports to the Great Lakes and the Saint Laurence Seaway connecting to the Atlantic Ocean), and a few other Canadian cities would become free economic zones, so open to free trade, open migration for work, etc. Inversely, the rest of Canada would accept no new immigration at all. Businesses outside of any free port that need workers could just try to poach Canadian citizens from the free ports by offering them higher wages. Businesses in the free ports would have no excuse for labour shortages since they could higher the most qualified candidate from the world over. People who want to bring a family member to Canada could not sponsor them anymore, but they could freely enter a free port and stay as long as they are financially self-sufficient. So if a family member will support them, no problem. But they still couldn't leave the free port without a visa except to go to another free port or leave Canada. We might even say though that anyone born in a free port obtains citizenship of that free port and not Canadian citizenship unless one parent is a Canadian citizen. But anyone not born in a free port cannot become a citizen of the free port. Besides, since anyone could go and work there anyway, he'd have no need for citizenship except to collect social security. The principle here would be if you're financially self-sufficient, please come, otherwise go home. Culturally, this would allow those who want to live on a more old stock community to just move out of a free port while diversity would be concentrated in those ports.

A sweet revenge would be to make them pass a test of their knowledge of the world's great religions. Imagine a white supremacist being forced to spend days reading through a study guide teaching factual knowledge challenging all of his beliefs just to get an entry visa. Ouch!

Hey, I got an idea. How about people like you organise, choose a town, and all plan to move to it? It would be a trickle with the wealthier ones moving in first, but once the population grows, you would organise to welcome the poorer members of your white group. I would choose a small town with a river or ocean port though, so that once you all live there, you could hold a referendum to become your own city state and still trade with others if you want to. I would be more than happy to give you your own independent city state.

It's my country too, but I'll restrain myself from telling you to get the hell out. I trace my roots back to New France, yet even I do not profess the Christian Faith, so why would I want to impose Christian holidays on immigrants? I say follow the Swedish model. Give parents a voucher and let schools choose their holiday schedule according to market demand. That way parents that want their kids to have a Saturday and Sunday weekend and an Easter and Christmas holiday can send their child to a school that follows a Christian calendar. Other schools might offer a different weekend and holiday calendar to attract shift workers in the travel industry, police, paramedics, firefighters and other shift workers. I trace my roots back to New France but I have learnt to be more open. As you can imagine, I'm not very sympathetic to immigrants coming in and then trying to lock the door behind them. It doesn't work that way. You want white, move to a white town. I'm white too, but I don't care about that.

What? Canadians have the monopoly on all of these beliefs?

We can learn from the EU model. Free movement of people. Let the market figure it out. But we're all for free markets until skin colour and accents come into play it seems.

I like the Libertarian Party policy. If you're financially self-sufficient, welcome to Canada and feel free to work. The truth is that an unemployed illiterate Canadian will not become a physician just because we don't allow physicians into Canada. Raise taxes on the rich to provide trades and professional education for the unemployed if you want, sure. But then let people in in the meantime to fill the positions that need to be filled (or they'll just move out to get the workers elsewhere and export to Canada from there), so we can build the tax base needed to train our unemployed. Again, you can have 1,000,000 open positions and 100 unemployed Canadians, but if those unemployed Canadians just don't have the qualifications, they still won't get the job.

In Apartheid South Africa, they had what wasa known as the pencil test. Just like the Nazis and the Belgians measured noses, the Afrikaners would go around sticking pencils in a person's curly hair. If the pencil stayed, he was black. If it fell out, he was white. Maybe you could bring the pencil to the office next time, speak to the manager, and insist that you expect that the person serving you can pass the pencil test. But with modern technology, I'm sure some device now exists to measure skin, hair, and eye colour in a scientific manner to determine according to a set degree of whiteness, blondness, or blueness. Oh yes, and those Afrikaners of the time had prohibited marriage outside of one's race, presumably to keep the curl factor as distinct as possible between white and black hair. Maybe we can reintroduce that in Canada. Let's prohibit exogamy altogether. And those Injuns need to know who's boss. They need to know they did not build Canada. We did. You want proof? How could they have built Canada while they were all locked up in residential schools and reserves and getting operated on to not have kids and being used for medical experiments and being denied the vote till 1960 eh. Objiously, we never gave them the chance to contribute to the building of Canada, so they'll just have to acknowledge that we built it, Maybe we'll need to introduce residential schools and reserves for all the non-Whites too, seeing how they're getting uppity and all by sacrificing their savings to send their kids to uni and all.

Why go back just a few decades? Let's go back 500 years to our real roots.

Nope. I think Punjabi is third, but concentrated in key areas. Mind you, Chinese is definitely giving even English a run for its money in key locations like Richmond BC.

In Quebec, the English-French bilingualism rate increased from 40.6% in 2006 to 42.6% in 2011. In the other provinces, bilingualism declined slightly. The largest decreases were recorded in Ontario, Manitoba and British Columbia, where in each case, the bilingualism rate decreased by half a percentage point.Footnote 23

English-French bilingualism Between 2006 and 2011, the number of persons who reported being able to conduct a conversation in both of Canada's official languages increased by nearly 350,000 to 5.8 million. The bilingualism rate of the Canadian population edged up from 17.4% in 2006 to 17.5% in 2011. This growth of English-French bilingualism in Canada was mainly due to the increased number of Quebecers who reported being able to conduct a conversation in English and French.

http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2011/as-sa/98-314-x/98-314-x2011001-eng.cfm

I'm sure that is only part of the equation. Maybe that combined with ignorance of the religion they profess for example.

Different people react in different ways. Many of them have dealt with transgenerational trauma by forming various addictions instead.

No. I am in fact often at odds with them since I find them about as selfish as the anglos in Quebec since official bilingualism imposes not one but two languages on allophones whi wish to access federal employment for example. Plus allophones pay the sane taxes but get nothing in return. I'm an allophone too by the way. Can they sue Air Canada for a 7-Up in ASL on an international flight?

I know one Canadian who's met a person who was visiting Canada as a tourist. They eventually married. Though she was university educated, her education definitely did not fit the Canadian context and si could never come under that programme. She wasn't even planning to move to Canada, let alone end up marrying a Canadian. Just to say that to increase tourism will inevitably increase family class immigration or emigration. You can't separate immigrants from the general population except in North Korea where you must stick with the tour guide.