Canada has two major problems with immigration right now:
1) the rapid increase in numbers is a shock that the immigration systems (including immigrant community resources) can't handle, that shock is exacerbating the housing crisis (and health care crisis and ...)
2) the family reunification program defeats one of the major purposes of immigration, increase the ratio of working age citizens to elderly citizens.
I say this as someone who has traditionally been pretty gung ho about immigration.
No way immigration doesn't help, I see this in germany help so many startups enter the market and build successful businesses that drive the economy.
The problem is that it's not a solution, the solution is to constantly push against inequility and increase social mobility while investing in productive industries (less housing speculations more manufacturing).
those are tough bills to swallow and they will lead any elected goverment out of the office, because strong shifts to an economy like this come with a lot of short term pain. and no one is willing to setdown and deal with 10 years of poor economy so that the future of the country is better.
Traditionally, it has been helping. It's not been helping for a couple of years now.
> strong shifts to an economy like this come with a lot of short term pain. and no one is willing to setdown and deal with 10 years of poor economy so that the future of the country is better.
This is the problem in a nutshell, we need to make changes and we can't stomach it politically.
Canada has two major problems with immigration right now:
1) the rapid increase in numbers is a shock that the immigration systems (including immigrant community resources) can't handle, that shock is exacerbating the housing crisis (and health care crisis and ...)
2) the family reunification program defeats one of the major purposes of immigration, increase the ratio of working age citizens to elderly citizens.
I say this as someone who has traditionally been pretty gung ho about immigration.