Re:Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M
by alephnerd on Monday June 08, 2026 @04:00PM
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A lot of people on the internet blame Canada's malaise on their historically lax immigration stance.
While to a certain extent it is true (eg. Indian, Chinese, Viet organized crime took advantage of it to leave crackdowns during the 2010s and 2020s and degree mills abounded), it's also overstated.
Canada's economy was always a resource and construction driven economy, and the blocking of the Keystone Pipeline project (thus making Canadian ONG less competitive than American sourced ONG), the rise of America as a net ONG producer (thanks Obama/Biden and Perry), the blocking of the GasLink LNG project (blocked the ability for Canada to build marketshare in Asia), and China's CCDI starting to crackdown on foreign assets of Chinese nationals as well as the Zero COVID era economic malaise (negatively impacted Chinese FDI) all IMO played a much larger role than immigration.
At the end of the day, Canada in the 2010s was unprepared for America becoming a major energy exporter by the 2020s, and was unable to successfully build infra to make Canadian ONG cost competitive against American ONG nor the ability to sell outside of North America. THIS is the legacy of the Trudeau administration.
Re:Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M
by kens on Monday June 08, 2026 @04:33PM
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Serious question: what is ONG? I assume it's like LNG (liquefied natural gas), but after multiple searches, all I can come up with is Oklahoma Natural Gas, NGO in French, and On God.
While to a certain extent it is true (eg. Indian, Chinese, Viet organized crime took advantage of it to leave crackdowns during the 2010s and 2020s and degree mills abounded), it's also overstated.
Canada's economy was always a resource and construction driven economy, and the blocking of the Keystone Pipeline project (thus making Canadian ONG less competitive than American sourced ONG), the rise of America as a net ONG producer (thanks Obama/Biden and Perry), the blocking of the GasLink LNG project (blocked the ability for Canada to build marketshare in Asia), and China's CCDI starting to crackdown on foreign assets of Chinese nationals as well as the Zero COVID era economic malaise (negatively impacted Chinese FDI) all IMO played a much larger role than immigration.
At the end of the day, Canada in the 2010s was unprepared for America becoming a major energy exporter by the 2020s, and was unable to successfully build infra to make Canadian ONG cost competitive against American ONG nor the ability to sell outside of North America. THIS is the legacy of the Trudeau administration.