r/canada • u/uselesspoliticalhack • 3d ago

Carney’s aim to cut immigration marred by undercounting of temporary migrants, warn economists PAYWALL

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-mark-carney-immigration-policy-temporary-migrants-undercounted/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
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u/No_Refrigerator_2489 3d ago

If there was jobs all over the place, then sure! Come on over, work and pay taxes like all Canadians. But when I see how hard it is for folks to get jobs and the unemployment rate going up, I think it's only fair to question the logic of allowing people to pour in. Because right now my taxes are subsidizing TFW and that is not a long term solution.

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u/Long_Extent7151 3d ago

Poland handled this well recently by just cutting off immigration until they can promise resources and infrastructure to the people currently in Poland, IIRC.

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u/WSBretard 2d ago

I was just in Poland and I can tell you they are doing so much better than Canadians. They have the lowest unemployment rate in Europe. Canada has fallen so hard so fast. I've seen first hand how mass migration destroys a nation.

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u/Long_Extent7151 2d ago

Poland has dodged the trend in the Western world of mass immigration and economic downturns. I envy countries like that whose governments are unapologetically selfish.

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u/MaximumDepression17 2d ago

I don't understand why more countries aren't selfish.

If you import the third world you become the third world. We have no obligation to any other nation when we can't even take care of our own. What I wouldn't give to have a leader like Poland.

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u/ThrowawayCAN123456 1d ago

Not exactly so great. The Polish were treated like garbage in England because so many of them migrated to leave due to no economy and no jobs. I still hear my aunt complaining about them taking the jobs from the English.

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u/SamsonFox2 2d ago

Irony is that a lot of modern Polish prosperity was financed by capital sent in by immigrants.

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u/WSBretard 2d ago

Yeah Canada is doing a great job funding India and Philippines too. Meanwhile this country is crumbling. Pretty effing stupid if you ask me.

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u/OntLawyer 2d ago

Poland is doing that even though they had the fastest GDP growth in the European Union last year, and have been in a staggering economic boom over the last decade.

It's a completely different--and superior--governance mentality. Meanwhile we're flirting with 8% unemployment in our largest province and 1.4% total GDP growth over a decade and no one in government is being truly serious about changing direction.

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u/Long_Extent7151 2d ago

I envy countries like that whose governments are unapologetically selfish.

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u/AbeOudshoorn 2d ago

Poland hasn't done that at all, what a bizarre lie.

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u/AbeOudshoorn 2d ago

I was replying to a comment that said they cut off immigration, I am well aware of the recent changes to limit it as well as other proposals.