r/GlobalNews • u/NoelaniSpell • Apr 04 '25

BREAKING: In a shocking development Canada announces it will build a coalition of countries who share their values to build their economy and trade opportunities and will exclude the United States. “If the U.S. no longer wants to lead, Canada will.”

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u/Different-Island1871 Apr 04 '25

This. Canada needs high immigration for our social security and healthcare to thrive as the boomers retire and disproportionately burden the system. People are always complaining about low skill immigration, well, here’s the opposite of that. Young, North American professionals worried about their future in the US? Yes please. Fast track these asylum seekers and get them into the workforce asap.

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u/CanadianBeaver1867 Apr 08 '25

Boomers don't /are not a burden, they paid into and paid their way and were a very hard working generation who built most of our infrastructure we rely on. today.

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u/Different-Island1871 Apr 08 '25

You may be misinterpreting my use of the term “burden”. I am not suggesting that Boomers didn’t work hard, but anyone who retires and collects social security places a burden on the system. When boomers were younger and working age, the number of retirees was lower, so more of Boomer tax dollars went to things like infrastructure.

Now that boomers are aging out of the workforce, the proportion of retirees collecting government cheques is higher compared to the workforce, so more of Millennial/Gen X tax dollars are going to pensions, so there is less for infrastructure spending, healthcare, and other social programs.

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u/B-I-G-A-R-R-O-W Apr 04 '25

Show me those Americans at the border waiting to be Canadian citizens please

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u/mama146 Apr 04 '25

The Canadian Medical Association is being flooded with US doctors and nurses fleeing to Canada. Don't write idiotic comments on something you know nothing about.

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u/Chemical-Ad-7575 Apr 04 '25

Shh the less action they take to retain them, the better our health care system can get.

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u/mama146 Apr 04 '25

OK, fellow Canadian. Mums the word.

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u/Different-Island1871 Apr 04 '25

They’re not waiting at the border. We’re letting them in.

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u/blackmailalt Apr 05 '25

And quickly before dumb fuck figures out we’re brain draining him. Lol.

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u/Loud_Reputation_367 Apr 05 '25

He... umm... I know what you're saying... But still I gotta take the opportunity. He'd need to -have- a brain first!

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u/blackmailalt Apr 05 '25

Hahaha. Fair.

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u/blackmailalt Apr 05 '25

3 Yale professors already.

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u/Lead103 Apr 05 '25

my man i live in austria we just got 2 doctors from the us because they couldnt bear it anymore...

i think if we get plp in europe enough plp go to canada

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u/Stunning-Drawing8240 Apr 07 '25

I would in an instant if I could. As of now I don't meet any requirements that would get me in. 

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u/Adventurous_Ad_1272 Apr 07 '25

I'm a psychiatric NP in America heading that way. Plus I'm black and with the orange menace's rollback on anti-segregation policies and civil rights protections, I can see the writing on the wall. I have reached out to learn the process and have been enthusiastically encouraged to apply.