Half of all Canadians say there are too many immigrants: poll

From a housing perspective, yeah, there are currently too many. That's a policy failure not related to immigration itself though. The housing problem could be easily solved and then this level of immigration would make sense.

We don't have too many immigrants, we have too many houses being wasted as "InVeStMeNtS" and too many rich fucks not paying taxes choking out the economy and social services.

Thanks, municipalities, by trying to persevere the character of your neighbourhoods, you've managed to destroy the character of Canada.

People are upset about immigrants because of housing. Housing is a problem because cities made it de jure illegal.

The real story:

Just 10 per cent of Canadians who think there is too much immigration say their concern is that Canadians will become “a minority” in their own country. Only eight per cent say new immigrants don’t adhere to Canadian values and just four per cent believe that immigration is bringing criminals to the country. Eighteen per cent worry that immigrants are taking jobs from Canadians.

And the other half arrived this year

Canada needs more people. It also needs more infrastructure.

Unfortunately Canada is doing a good job tackling #1, but a bad job tackling #2 because the financials work out to be just fine to do so.

Tell that half to go back to where they came from. LOL

Concerns over immigration are mostly about the economy

https://theconversation.com/nobel-winner-david-card-shows-immigrants-dont-reduce-the-wages-of-native-born-workers-169768

https://davidcard.berkeley.edu/papers/new-immig.pdf

It is incorrect to think of economic activity as a limited resource that must be defended against the rapacious outsider. Economic activity is not only consumed by people, but also created by them. Value is a product of human labour. In fact, Canada should be looking to increase it's population rapidly so that the market that exists here can develop enough of a gravity of its own that we aren't so reliant on the US market.

Outsourcing and automation have been far, far more impactful with regards to wages. NAFTA (now CUSMA) as well has hollowed out a lot of our economy so that the only real growth sectors are resource extraction which feeds the US market, and real estate. Protectionism is a bit of a dirty word however I think it's necessary to develop industries where we can create value-added products out of our own natural resources, and ultimately build a much more varied and healthy economy. And we need far more people than we are birthing locally to do that.

It's insane to me that anyone in Canada would hold this opinion given that our economy is on the verge of ruin due to the lack of available labour and the massive amount of retirees we have. Where do they think this money will come from?

Economics Explained recently did a video reviewing Canada's immigration policies. Most advanced economies have low birthrates and make up for it with immigration. Accepting an immigrant is (economically) much better than someone having a baby. A baby needs decades before it contributes to the economy. An immigrant is often educated and skilled in a desired field and will immediately contribute to the economy.

However, Canada might be the first country to stumble upon some downsides to immigration. Mainly, student visas might not contribute as much to the economy as once thought, Canadian immigrants leave to work in the US at incredibly high rates, and Canadian metropolitan cities are some of the most expensive to live in worldwide and immigration is exacerbating the issue (the issue isn't immigration though, it's a focus on building single detached family homes over high density housing).

Just don't scroll down into the comment section. It's mostly just people being racist. I sincerely hope those comments aren't coming from Canadians. (The channel also did a video on why African countries struggle economically a few days later and the comment section was even worse)

Since 1 in 4 Canadians is a first generation immigrant themselves, I'm wondering if this 50% figure represents 2/3 of all Canadian-born Canadians.

Or maybe some leopards eating faces is going on?

lol the irony

Think of how stupid the average person is and now remember that half of them are stupider than that.

Count me in that number. Its factually true from my perspective.

40K nets around 32K in Ontario. 1 bedroom rent in Toronto's suburbs is over 2K. That's 24K per year. 24K / 40K = 60% of gross income to housing. 24K / 32K = 8K leftover after housing. 8K / 12 = $666 per month for all else. This number falls to $333 on minimum wage. Monthly transit pass is $156. If you live outside TO proper, you often pay for two passes. Mississauga's is $131. A cheap phone bill with data that could somewhat replace Internet is $35. Internet connection is $50+. Have you gone to a grocery store recently? Better not have any unplanned expenses.

Fucking idiots.

As a recent immigrant ... ouch.

With that said everyone in my town has been incredibly kind and welcoming of me and my family. We are native english speakers from the US and white though so we can pass for local as long as we dont say "prah-cess" instead of "pro-cess" or talk about the weather in Freedom Degrees instead of Celsius.

Since 1 in 4 Canadians is a first generation immigrant themselves I'm wondering if this 50% figure represents half of all Canadian-born Canadians.

Or maybe some leopards eating faces is going on.

Ah yes. Where you say "no immigrants" and people go "you're racist" and the fact is that it's as it was said: too many immigrants. Nothing racist about it. We can't sustain this size of population.

Edit: Lol more down votes than up vote. Ok people, give me your reasoning how inviting kre people where we already don't have enough places for them to live solves this housing crisis. Is it a race trigger? Ok pretend it's your preferred race being invited to the country. Are you still ok with that? I'm not. We need less people. Not more. It has nothing to do with racism.