B.C. Premier David Eby says the temporary foreign worker program should "be cancelled or significantly reformed" because the province can't have an immigration system that takes young people's jobs, while filling up homeless shelters and food banks.
He is right. I used to live in Canada. It’s a great country.
But the extreme immigration rate - one of the highest in the world - had seriously damaging effects on housing and the job market. It’s not good for immigrants and it’s not good for canadians. The only winners are scummy landlords and big corporations. It’s time to slow down.
Water is good for you. But if you drink 10 bottles of water, you are going to be sick.
Immigrants taking jobs is only one half of the equation. They also need food, shelter, transportation, entertainment, etc and provide the demand that is the driver of economic growth. The reason people aren’t feeling that is because, just the same as us, the vast majority of the value created by immigrants is going to the top 0.1%. Canada’s best bet for the future would be increasing immigration even further than under Trudeau combined with redistributive economic policy and a public housing authority that doesn’t leave it to the whims of the private market to build enough housing for everyone. Canada has plenty of empty land, we should be building entire new cities.
He is right. I used to live in Canada. It’s a great country.
But the extreme immigration rate - one of the highest in the world - had seriously damaging effects on housing and the job market. It’s not good for immigrants and it’s not good for canadians. The only winners are scummy landlords and big corporations. It’s time to slow down.
Water is good for you. But if you drink 10 bottles of water, you are going to be sick.
As a counterpoint I offer this article:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/18/how-spains-radically-different-approach-to-migration-helped-its-economy-soar
Immigrants taking jobs is only one half of the equation. They also need food, shelter, transportation, entertainment, etc and provide the demand that is the driver of economic growth. The reason people aren’t feeling that is because, just the same as us, the vast majority of the value created by immigrants is going to the top 0.1%. Canada’s best bet for the future would be increasing immigration even further than under Trudeau combined with redistributive economic policy and a public housing authority that doesn’t leave it to the whims of the private market to build enough housing for everyone. Canada has plenty of empty land, we should be building entire new cities.
Where’d you go?
The problem is most of the immigrants target one city to live in, and that city has been poorly managed on infrastructure for 50 years.