Chinese are big customers for schemes selling foreign residency

Re:Chinese are big customers for schemes selling foreign res... by andy_bandy on Monday July 22, 2019 @04:22PM (#20501958)

They don't pay income tax. In a country with free medicare and cheap post-secondary education, and many other low income benefits this is a massive problem.

"nine of 10 recent Chinese immigrants arrive in Metro Vancouver with enough money to immediately buy homes. But only half hold down jobs during their first five years in Canada, while four of 10 report they’re surviving on low incomes."

https://vancouversun.com/opinion/columnists/douglas-todd-how...

Ritzy Richmond neighbourhood where many are ‘poor’

http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Part+Ritzy+Richmond+nei...

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Re:Chinese are big customers for schemes selling foreign res... by mistermann on Monday July 22, 2019 @07:16PM (#20503161)

> But only half hold down jobs during their first five years

I wonder how long it will be before the government decides to change their data format so immigrant employment numbers can no longer be associated with country of origin, under the guise of "privacy" or something like that.

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Re:Chinese are big customers for schemes selling foreign res... by msie on Monday July 22, 2019 @09:34PM (#20503766)

9/10 is taken out of context. It sounds like 9/10 of all Chinese immigrants but that’s clearly not true. Many reading it will be outraged and not investigate further. Mission accomplished for the opinion piece.

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Re:Chinese are big customers for schemes selling foreign res... by msie on Monday July 22, 2019 @09:21PM (#20503725)

You are publishing opinion pieces from Douglas Todd, who is a syndicated conservative author who doesn’t like immigration. I wouldn’t take his articles at face value.

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