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Re:Marines mobilized in response to LA protests by InsideOutSanta on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @10:46AM (#44237471)
>I can't see how this is good in a country that already has a stagnating economy and a housing crisis

Increasing immigration is a good way to revitalize a stagnant economy. This is the great chasm between people's intuition of how national economies work and economists' understanding of how they work.

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Re:Marines mobilized in response to LA protests by FirmwareBurner on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @11:23AM (#44237987)
>Increasing immigration is a good way to revitalize a stagnant economy.

Then why is Canada's economy stagnating with all that emigration? When is that supposed economic boom coming?

The second issue is, if that economic boom is gonna trickle down to the Canadian working class or only to the top 1% of Canadian business and asset owning class while everyone else is left holding the bag?

Because we've been duped for decades with this uncontrolled immigration trickle down economic fallacy.

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Re:Marines mobilized in response to LA protests by amanaplanacanal on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @01:24PM (#44239210)
Your ancestors were likely "uncontrolled" immigrants and so were mine. That's the way the Western hemisphere was settled. If it's so bad, how did the US and Canada get so rich?
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Re:Marines mobilized in response to LA protests by dttze on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @03:11PM (#44240299)
What resources? What are you even talking about?

We allow those in power to rape, murder, and pillage all the time. You don't care about that though, do you? Blame the migrants instead, easier than facing power.

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Re:Marines mobilized in response to LA protests by rangestransform on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @08:43PM (#44243099)
Optimal policy is much different for a post industrial economy than an agrarian/frontier economy, I would rather have better standard of living than consistent ethics
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Re:Marines mobilized in response to LA protests by amanaplanacanal on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @06:14PM (#44252412)
That's possibly true. Is there any evidence? Because there is a thread of racism and fear of the other built into our immigration policies since the beginning, and I don't see that's changed.
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Re:Marines mobilized in response to LA protests by jjk7 on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @11:00AM (#44237643)
Well, it doesn't seem to be working.
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Re:Marines mobilized in response to LA protests by FirmwareBurner on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @02:28PM (#44239801)
It's working at making Canadian landlords rich. That's economic growth too.
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Re:Marines mobilized in response to LA protests by mensetmanusman on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @09:59PM (#44243499)
This is true if you build enough houses to help the new arrivals, but the government failed to do this and has recently admitted as such. Because they didn’t, the housing crisis is about four times worse in Canada than in America, and that has completely defeated young Canadians and pressured them to not start families.
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