I keep reading (mostly from the right) how Canada needs to "stop immigration" because new immigrants "don't want to assimilate."
Bunch of nonsense.
Canada has a labour shortage. It doesn't have a strong enough birth rate to keep up so we need to make it up through immigration. Specifically, skilled labour. It's a gigantic country that needs filling.
The challenge is providing those people with jobs in their fields. People with medical degrees from India or Iran shouldn't be driving taxis or selling shoes.
Canada's reality is not Europe's where immigration is looked upon negatively. We're the New World and continue to offer people from around the world with a great opportunity to live in peace and harmony with a high quality of life. We're in no position to close down our borders, Muslim terrorists notwithstanding. More importantly, there is no reason - culturally, politically or economically - to argue against it.
We all sometimes gets caught up in the "culture wars" (in Quebec, it's still further backwards with the "language wars") but when you look at it, that's just a detraction from the real issue of keeping the economy healthy in a pluralist society that respects the rule of law.
People come with knowledge. Knowledge is an asset. Language and ethnicity (culture) are just an excuse for protectionists and nationalists to exploit for their own parochial purposes.
I think tax credit should not be abolished by the government. There are communities & charities putting efforts for child welfare like Jason Halek . They are doing excellent job for the deprived children.
ReplyDeleteAre the Right opposed to all immigration or just illegal immigration? That distinction gets lost down here at times. Your statement, "People with medical degrees from India or Iran shouldn't be driving taxis or selling shoes", reminded me of a gentleman I once worked with as a teen. He was in his 60's, a Cuban refugee. He had been a doctor, now he was a doorman/usher (as was I) at a movie theater.
ReplyDeleteIllegal immigration. I've made that distinction repeatedly in the past. The left tries to group it, you're right.
ReplyDeleteBut as that link about Rome showed, people will always find a way - legal or otherwise.
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