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Originally Posted by opendoor
The permanent population increase is totally reasonable and within historical norms, why would you want to curtail that? If we did, we'd need to be OK with one or more of the following happening:
1) Higher taxes
2) Bigger deficits
3) Reduction in pension, OAS, healthcare, etc.
Given our demographics, we need about 500K new primary residents through immigration each year to maintain our historical rate of labor force growth and that's roughly what the current targets are. Without that, then we just have an aging population that relies on a shrinking workforce to fund everything.
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Maybe don't bring in costly programs you can't afford simply to save your grip on power as good start? I'm fine with healthy immigration, but the last few years the doors are open far too wide to sustain (see endless housing, education, health care capacity strains). It's damn tough to relocate and set up in a new country, and that's if you're highly skilled with all the perks of affluence at your disposal.
It takes years for TFWs, Refugees and even the average immigrant worker to build up to even 75% of the median income. It's not just like flipping a light switch and you've suddenly got a highly contributing tax payer filling the gaps in the system.
Even if a Conservative government comes to power this year and drops the numbers back to or close to the norm, Canada is going to be feeling the pinch for years to come. It's not fair to anyone involved, especially those coming into the country under the impression that they can live the dream here only to find there is little to nowhere they can afford to live, can't get a family doctor and they likely have to send their kids to a school 20 minutes away with 40 kids jammed into a classroom made for 25.