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Canada Needs To Pause Immigration · Radio Baloney - The Richie Baloney Show!

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  The elephant in the room in Canada right now is immigration. There's just way
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  too much of it. It's gone completely crazy. Mother Trudeau seems to love
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  it. He can't get enough. And the fact that our infrastructure is being
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  completely overwhelmed by these historic numbers of people that Trudeau is bringing to Canada,
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  that doesn't seem to concern him very much. And the mainstream media in Canada
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  is of course overwhelmingly disinterested in this topic. I mean, this is one
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  of their sacred cows, right. It's just good. Any amount is good,
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  an infinite amount is good. But you do see some people talking about
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  it. Here's Brian Lilly from the Toronto Sun as as statscan that Statistics Canada
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  shows immigration soaring. Is it time for a pause? Pace of newcomers arriving
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  appears to be outstripping job creation amid a housing crisis. And let's just go
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  to these stats can report here. Employment rose by forty thousand in August.
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  This increase in employment was outpaced by population growth one hundred and three thousand.
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  One hundred and three thousand. This is Canada, by the way, that's
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  one month. And the unemployment rate, the proportion of the population aged fifteen
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  and older who are employed fell point one percent points to sixty one point nine.
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  That means we're bringing in more people than we can provide jobs for.
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  Back to this article, he says, have we reached an immigration tipping point
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  in Canada? Yes, the answer is yes if you're in the housing market,
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  and if you've been to an emergency room lately, the answer is definitely
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  yes. Now, he points out here that in those stats from Stats Canada,
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  the figure of one hundred and three thousand in a month. In one
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  month in Canada is only the working age population of people fifteen and older.
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  It doesn't include young children, so that one hundred and three thousand is just
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  the people fifteen and over. Still, bringing in one hundred and three thousand
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  in a month is the equivalent of adding Pickering in Ontario, Lethbridge in Alberta,
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  or Kamloops in British Columbia in one month. Since the beginning of the
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  year, statscan says we have averaged eighty one thousand newcomers aged fifteen and older
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  per month. That will equate to just over one million. Let me repeat
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  that, one million new people this year. If the trend continues over the
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  last several years, we have gone from bringing in between two hundred and fifty
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  thousand to three hundred thousand new permanent residents each year people who are immigrating to
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  settle here, to more than four hundred and thirty thousand permanent residents in twenty
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  twenty two. The government's goal is to lift that to five hundred thousand new
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  permanent residents a year by twenty twenty five, a mark they will easily hit.
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  But that's not all, because we've also gone from a few hundred thousand
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  international students studying in Canada each year to more than eight hundred thousand last year
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  and estimates of more than nine hundred thousand this year. None of this takes
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  into account the thousands of people claiming asylum in Canada each month, or the
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  hundreds of thousands of temporary foreign workers. And in addition to that, a
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  recent CIBC report suggested that Canada's population could be off by one million one million
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  thanks to an undercounting of non permanent residents, mostly temporary foreign workers. Let's
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  look at housing Canada. MLS benchmark price, which measures the price of a
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  typical home in Canada, was seven hundred and fifty seven thousand, three hundred
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  in July of twenty twenty three. Now that's all houses, that's in the
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  places where real estate's less expensive, like Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba's houses in
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  rural areas. That's all of them. And the average price is still seven
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  hundred and fifty seven thousand if you want to live in Toronto one point two
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  seven million for the average the average detached house Vancouver one point two seven million
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  dollars. And it's not that much less out in the suburbs. So something
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  is wrong here, and it's obviously supply and demand and just saying well,
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  just build more houses, build more homes. Yeah, but the problem is
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  they need to be connected to jobs, they need to be connected to infrastructure.
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  Not to mention the fact that the more homes you build, the more
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  you're going to inflate the price of building homes. Back to this article,
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  he says that we have a housing crisis driven by more demand than supply,
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  and the ever increasing population, especially among foreign students, is adding to that.
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  This week we saw a story of international students in North Bay living in
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  tents because of the lack of housing options available. We don't have enough housing
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  for the people already in the country, never mind adding a new city per
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  month. But we're also told that we need the new arrivals to fill the
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  jobs to build the houses. Our healthcare system is regularly at a tipping point
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  without enough doctors and nurses to deal with the population already here. But we
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  are also told that we need newcomers to fill the jobs in healthcare. Yet
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  when they get here, we won't have proper housing, healthcare, education for
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  their children, or infrastructure for the communities they settle in. It's quite a
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  conundrum. It's not really though, Is it only bring in the people that
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  we actually desperately need. We don't need any more uber drivers, we don't
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  need more temporary workers at Tim Horton's. Is any of this good for the
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  country or good for the people who are coming here? Quite possibly, on
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  the false notion that Canada is a country that's still functions properly. Perhaps now
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  it is time to hit pause, perhaps slow the intake, until we have
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  a handle on the situation and are sure we can absorb this many people so
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  quickly. But you know, all of this begs the question, I mean,
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  what is the point of it in the first place? I mean,
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  there's tons of YouTube videos of people who saying they came to Canada and discovered
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  it's just a scam to get them to blow their life savings here, to
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  prop up the economy, to prop up real estate prices. And I believe
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  about a third of immigrants actually leave within five years now anyway, because they
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  realize this country is becoming increasingly unlivable. Oh and the other thing is too
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  it also drives down wages enormously, so you know, everybody can thank Trudeau
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  for that as well. So I don't the answer to the question. To
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  me, it seems pretty simple. We need to just stop it now,
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  unless we're talking about only people with specialized skills that Canada actually really does need,
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  you know, because I'm not sure that we need more temporary workers working
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  for lower wages, or that we need to trick engineers to come here so
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  they can end up being uber drivers. I'm just not sure how any of
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  this helps anybody anyway. That's all I got to say about that. Please
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