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I went up to my local convenience store/gas station/taco truck today which is a neighborhood staple. A Korean family has run the place for more than a decade.
I have decided that Koreans are my favorite brand of immigrant, I really like them. They are good sensible constructive people who add value and are neat, tidy, and responsible. I frequent some of their other businesses here and they're just great, always.
I paid in cash and the son who actually runs the business examined my $20 bill. I asked if that had become a problem and he responded in the affirmative that he had accepted some very very good counterfeits and was being careful, going on to describe the details. The local supermarket a few blocks beyond has also stopped taking $50 and $100 bills.
This gas station/mini-mart in the last two years has also installed iron grills over all the doors and windows after increasing break-ins.
This is where we are now. Even the good immigrants are being pillaged in the system.
I was binge-watching Milton Friedman videos a few weeks ago, and someone asked him whether he supports immigration into the USA, with the context that the USA was settled and built by immigrants.
His response was that you can either have immigration, or you can have welfare, but you cannot have both.
As soon as welfare enters the equation, the reason that people want to emigrate into your country change for the worse. Instead of mostly attracting hard working people who were driven enough to move to a new country and build up their own wealth for themselves and their family, you attract ungrateful people who are encouraged to come in and squander welfare that they did not work for.
Same argument can be made for universal healthcare in Canada.
Single payer healthcare is crumbling for many reasons here.
But a major factor is that Trudeau has doubled and tripled legal immigration targets to over 450k, including a whole bunch of family reunification and sponsorship provisions bringing over grandmas while the system itself hasn't actually added any new beds in decades.
Is that per year? If so, given Canada's population that is absolutely bonkers. How can anyone with a functioning brain support that. Leftism is a mental disorder.
Yeah, that's 400k+ per year with rising targets with a population of 38 million.
It's already tripled AFAIK from 2015 levels when Trudeau took power.
They've also not built a single new hospital bed to compensate, including over the pandemic.
A judge in BC ruled last week that even though Canada’s shitty public healthcare system has consistently violated Charter Rights causing death and suffering by its incompetence and rationing, it's still constitutional to outlaw private options domestically because preserving the "system" at all costs is more important than lives or liberty.
Canadian normies are deathly afraid of being labeled as racist and xenophobic.
So any talk of reducing immigration levels even a bit closer to 2015 levels is automatically a far-right, white supremacist ideal.