Why are so many immigrants leaving Canada? | The Big Story

[@InvisibleHotdog]

The high skilled immigrants are leaving while low skilled TFWs and "students" are flooding in - 20% is a tiny cut, it's still higher than before, the cut needs to be a lot bigger

[@c.f.okonta8815]

Are they leaving to America

[@InvisibleHotdog]

@c.f.okonta8815 they are, and so are Canadians. The number of Canadians in the USA hit a 10 year high this year

[@billclay9511]

There's no need for anymore terrorists, scammers or truck drivers.

[@KoolKat42]

@@billclay9511 interesting professions your family members have

[@ibruceeasily1728]

@@KoolKat42hes talking about indians and muslims. No more please and thanks

[@brownhunk007]

Terrible winter, everything expensive , racist women, no jobs etc

[@evalangley3985]

incel complaining on internet...

[@ibruceeasily1728]

No woman wants a smelly aggressive hindi who doesnt see her as anything more than an object of desire

[@AndrewDhaliwal-iu1ws]

So they can collect Canada Pension while living among family and jealous neighbours back home at one thirds the cost.

[@KoolKat42]

So you and your family are doing that?

[@AndrewDhaliwal-iu1ws]

@KoolKat42 no, I love Canada I've never went outside Canada since I got here 40 years ago.

[@cliffordhanson9224]

​@@AndrewDhaliwal-iu1ws or your parole won't let you leave the country... immigrant...

[@AndrewDhaliwal-iu1ws]

​@@cliffordhanson922440 years is kinda long for parole.

[@brownhunk007]

Punjabis doing it.

[@ccgear4367]

The sheer numbers are not these skilled workers. It’s nearly all Tim hortons server who barely can speak English or pass a “university” course.

[@theredboneking]

Immigrants are leaving at a record pace, yet our population grows at a record pace, despite a poor birth rate. We should be looking at the correlation between carbon emissions and population growth. What’s the point of taking money from Canadians with a carbon tax, when population growth creates carbon emissions?

[@AndrewDhaliwal-iu1ws]

As a form of foreign aid we should send condoms to the developing countries.

[@jezballs4018]

Don't know but I'm all for it.

[@juniortulo3823]

They are not leaving, they are still here.

[@on2thenextthing]

Not just immigrants.

[@rollinthunder8671]

Citizens Once im done nursing school going to Windsor then going to the states

[@SUlutas]

No good jobs. Mediocre quality of life.

[@spicoli4217]

Why isnt there ever a focus on making the natural born population's birth rate to increase? Not full blown nativism, but there doesnt seem to be any focus on this whatsoever. It always seems to be reliant on immigrants to increase the population completely. Its insane. 98% of the population growth last year was because of incoming residents.

[@coolhand4598]

Its the replacement agenda

[@kaankanca4634]

Because immigrants can work right away and people born in the country need ~18 years of investment and care (from the gov since education and healthcare is funded by the gov) before they enter the workforce. And people don’t pay taxes if they don’t work.

[@EcHo8484]

Canada is a door to America

[@lynb1022]

Maybe that "Top 4%" is the problem. Prioritizing the importing of already wealthy people means many come to Canada to *extract* wealth via well-paid jobs and "investing" in real estate, not actually productively contributing to our economy. Canada needs to stop spending so much effort and money trying to attract foreign "investment" and divert it to supporting Canadians instead (e.g. incentives to get more youth into trades, STEM, healthcare, etc. so that our own kids can find secure jobs, instead of so many going to LMIAs and TFWs).

[@AndrewDhaliwal-iu1ws]

They got wealthy of the foreign aid we send them.

[@lynb1022]

@@AndrewDhaliwal-iu1ws that's not how foreign aid works. "Foreign aid" primarily goes to the Western companies & NGOs that go into other countries to "restructure", like with implementing "structural adjustment programs" (SAPs). Search "The Economic Hitmen" (a 2 minute cartoon) for a summary of John Perkins' "Confessions of an Economic Hitman."

[@AndrewDhaliwal-iu1ws]

​@@lynb1022thanks I'll check it out.

[@kaankanca4634]

If they are receiving wealth through a well paid job aren’t they contributing to your economy? Would you say a Canadian born doctor, lawyer, or skilled manager is contributing to their society or are they also extracting wealth? The real problem is the low skill workers who take away from the overall productivity of the economy and create barriers to young people to enter the job market by taking low skilled work. The government is not helping either by requiring the high skilled workers to work low skill jobs to gain “Canadian Experience”. There are different programs that the government offers to wealthy people. They all require significant investment to enter. I have a friend who’s family made a 250,000 dollar investment in around 2016 (not real estate), to be able to get a PR around 2018. They rent, work, and pay taxes. If they need non-urgent healthcare, they go back home for the doctors because the wait times in Canada are so high and the treatment of patients are better in foreign private hospitals. So they don’t even create an increase in healthcare demand. This has been the case for most rich immigrants I’ve seen. The low skill, diploma-mill, nephew-of-whoever, immigrants that come in are the real consumers of government aid and they are the ones working under the table, lining up in front of food banks, and allow people to charge 700-1000 dollars for a single bed in a room in the basement.

[@lynb1022]

@@kaankanca4634 ​ How does any non-native (to any country, not just Canada), whose primary motive is to EXTRACT wealth "contribute to the economy"? Absolute false equivalency with doctors, etc., who provide essential services to citizens. Your friend's family might very well be nice people and productive new Canadians but they still essentially bribed their way in, again demonstrating that there is one set of rules for the wealthiest anywhere, and another set of rules for the rest of us. 20+ years ago some of us were saying that selling-out Canada to the highest bidders would eventually come back to bite us in the @ss, and here we are. Enjoy the encampments. We agree on the diploma-mill imports; but I remember the days when "low skilled" immigrants came here (many of whom I called friends), and weren't so self-entitled to believe that people born & raised here should pander to them. We need to bring back those types who actually helped build a better Canada and teach us things about their cultures (instead of say, fraud), instead of treating us as their personal doormat. As an aside, there's a great CBC doc posted here a few days ago about the Burger Baron chain and the Lebanese immigrants who expanded it, very entertaining.

[@rollinthunder8671]

*citizens

[@History_Camel]

Deport student visas

[@meganfraser5358]

Our medical schools favor accepting foreigners over citizens for seats- we would have more home grown medical professionals if our schools accepted more.

[@manisherande4568]

Maybe immigrants are compétant.¿

[@jkb358]

Not enough are leaving