Interesting what's being discussed in here. I've been uninterested in the title topic to some degree because I've already been hit in the face with it.
I've been interested in immigration policy for some time. I thought that it was a misstep when harper pushed yearly population growth past 500K without attaching it to some kind of metric. Trudeau had his "hold my beer" moment this past year with 1 million 50 thousand.
It's a taboo subject because the knee-jerk retaliation is to be labeled a racist, when policy and people can't be identified as different things.
Infrastructure and housing not keeping up and forcing an unnatural rise in living costs, as well as environmental impacts is only stracting the surface of what an arbitrary immigration number does to the country.
When there was celebration last month for 60K new jobs created, my first thought was whether that was enough to sustain the population growth, or if it symbolized regression. Imagine immigrating and then immediately finding out that there's nothing here.
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