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Originally Posted by Buggys
Letting in some skilled immigrants who are willing to respect our culture is fine.
It's the unskilled unpatriotic foreigners that add unfair burdens to our society -- uneducated family reunification immigrants, elderly parents who come here just in time to collect OAS, healthcare tourists, birth tourists, endless numbers of refugees and their massive families and many young children.
We need to comfortably take care of our own taxpayers 1st, before choosing to be saviour of the world.
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Family unification is a pretty small percentage and parents/grandparents is a pretty small percentage of that (about 17,000 last year). And they can't collect OAS (which is based on years spent in Canada).
Healthcare tourists are paying money, so are not really a burden (and there are way better health tourist destinations than Canada).
Agree with you on the birth tourism. That is ridiculous.
What you're calling "endless numbers of refugees".is about 60k in a population of 37 million.
There are certainly problems. The people that create the points system do not communicate with the people who regulate professions (which is why we end up with taxi-driving surgeons). Immigrants disproportionately end up in the GTA and lower mainland of BC (contributing to sprawl, pollution, transportation problems, etc) while most of the country struggles with population decline. The federal government loves the refugee photo ops but dumps most of the costs onto municipalities.
I think you're right that some of the low-skill jobs could be done by people already here, but too many low skill Canadians would rather play video games in their parents basement than do hard work.