I feel like the causality is wrong here.
- Our politicians stop building for the future. eg, they stop building affordable housing; and cut funding to train healthcare providers.
- Our quality of life decreases as we can’t afford housing and can’t get quality healthcare.
- People look for the fastest possible way to limit strain on our systems.
- Politicians take strain off the systems by reducing immigration.
Immigration (and changes in the targets) isn’t the problem. Start fixing the systemic problems and Canadians will continue to welcome newcomers. And we’ll be happier overall.
Canada does have issues with racism that should be addressed, but I don’t think that’s directly related to feelings about immigration for most Canadians.
We need to build a country that can support the increased immigration. That means building denser and more affordable apartments and homes. It means investing in transit to move people. It means investing in healthcare to care for our population. It means investing in manufacturing and other sectors to ensure job growth and keep Canada producing things. Instead our politicians are using immigration as cheap labour while we keep growing the housing bubble and stagnate on production.
Agreed.
And let us not forget that Modi benefits from stoking this. Not only is India trying to slow down the immense brain drain but Canada has a number of Sihk residents that Modi would prefer didn’t exist.
I feel as if “hate towards South Asian people is fueling anti-immigrant politics” would be a more correct headline.
Could easily be a feedback loop. People don’t get born super racist. They learn to be.
