In Foodie Beauty's thread, a lot of people ask why her fake husband would want real citizenship in Canada of all the places one could go. But fifteen, twenty years ago, Canada was able to support immigrants and welcomed them and really created the public image of peaceful prosperity where everyone and every view is respected and celebrated. There are no wars, political conflicts are mild, even if "conservatives" are in power we are a liberal country. So many foreigners grew up with the propaganda that Canada was worth coming to and that they could achieve more here than back home.
And for awhile, many of them did. But now, just like every other Canadian, if you do not have generational wealth, you're kind of fucked. You cannot start from nothing here and whatever the government offers as monetary incentive eventually runs out and since you were never going to be offered prosperous opportunities, you're in the same boat as you were with the monetary incentive. But now you can also deal with the growing animosity from born citizens who know your presence actually made it harder for them.
But I'm sure a lot of older generations still sell Canada to their children as it once was and they unfortunately end up here and realize this place is a shit hole. Smart ones with capital can find proper investment opportunities but generally fuck off to other countries or back home eventually.
So even though I grew up in this dream era of prosperous Canadians of all walks of life and enjoyed the positives of that, I cannot support the solution of hundreds of thousands of people to the country. Which social systems are they using? Or are they immediately working for the government and hospitals? I think this country can support a lot of immigration - we have a lot of space - but we would have to actually properly invest in development of pretty much every single facet of society before we actually could support someone.
Like what kind of country invites people to a sinking ship? It's embarrassing. You want 500,000 people from around the world to find out they can't get baby advil for no discernible reason? That walk ins are on level with poorer countries? That our welfare system provides only 1/3 of average rent in all metropolitan cities? That jobs in education and health barely reach a living wage? That they'll never afford a house? It seems more racist to purposefully invite people into hardship than it would be to just close the doors and focusing on building a better Canada with what's here while investing into future growth in another 10-15 years. A massive immigration is going to completely break these systems for everyone, so it's not surprising Doug Ford is pushing privatized health care; keeping it accessible to those with wealth while the overall system breaks under pressure.
