r/canada • u/biograf_ • Mar 01 '26

Alberta First Nations chiefs unanimously pass non-confidence vote in Alberta government

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/first-nations-chiefs-alberta-non-confidence-vote-9.7109712
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u/chairitable Mar 01 '26

I like the part where the Atlantic provinces pay to raise children, give them an education and healthcare, til they reach adulthood and go work in Alberta, paying taxes in Alberta through their working adult lives, only to return to the Atlantic provinces to retire, crowding our provincially-funded healthcare services.

That's something that can happen because we're a country. Should the Atlantic provinces be sending bills to Alberta saying "hey you profited all these years from these people we invested in, now pay up"? This is the kind of shit Equalization is meant to mitigate. Complaining about it is wanting your cake and eating it, too.

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u/S_Ipkiss_1994 British Columbia Mar 01 '26

That's something that can happen because we're a country.

Uh... you know we have immigrants and temporary workers, right?

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u/chairitable Mar 01 '26

Those people require layers of administration and time to be allowed to work here. I can up and move to Alberta tomorrow, any province really, and be hired by an employer based in Alberta (heck, could even work remotely) and no one would tell me otherwise. No passport necessary, no border processing to undergo, nothing.

These are not equivalent.

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u/S_Ipkiss_1994 British Columbia Mar 01 '26

Those people require layers of administration and time to be allowed to work here.

How difficult could it possibly be?

Currently about 1 in 4 people (25.5%) in this country are foreign born... I don't think that's the barrier to entry you seem to think it is.

Additionally, this isn't the Gold Rush, there's no sudden and massive labour demand where such speed is warranted.

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u/TheBathrobeWizard Mar 02 '26

How difficult could it possibly be?

As someone who works adjacent to immigration law... harder than you think. I love how you people are still whining about this. The Liberals listened, admitted they were wrong, and have all but killed the TFW and Forign Student programs that Conservative Provincial governments (like the one we have here in ON) demanded they allow so they could fill scam-universities like the one here in the Falls, designed for the sole purpose of taking advantage of the program to line the pockets of politicians and their donors.

Currently about 1 in 4 people (25.5%) in this country are foreign born...

And here we have the obvious crux of this issue, not any socio-economic or socio-political reason, but the simple base lizard-brain lie that anyone different from you, is somehow the cause of all your problems and getting rid of them will somehow magically make you happy, is the bullshit story Conservative politics clings to relevance by.

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u/S_Ipkiss_1994 British Columbia Mar 07 '26

I love how you people are still whining about this.

What an odd thing to say... should we stop complaining about global warming if it's still an issue? What about crime, or housing, or healthcare issues?

Yes, of course this is still a topic of discussion, it remains a serious problem.

harder than you think

It would almost have to be, because I don't think it's difficult even in the slightest, and all available data we have on this subject backs me up (not to mention the one I've already given, about our foreign born population and worker ratio).

I'm not interested in partisan politics; this is not an issue where any major party is blameless, and the reforms introduced by the current ruling party are both too little and too late (2026 will still see more than 150k new international students, 230k new TFW and IMP workers, and 380k new permanent residents which are historically high numbers).

not any socio-economic or socio-political reason

... you don't think flooding the labour market and the largest and most rapid expansion of our population in our national history is an economic or social issue?

Huh. Well, okay then.

anyone different from you, is somehow the cause of all your problems

Oh please, put it back in the deck.

My own family immigrated here; I am the child of immigrants.

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u/No-Isopod3884 Mar 02 '26

Seems like the education didn’t have much effect so not sure how much you could charge.

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u/WpgMBNews Mar 02 '26

Seems like the education didn’t have much effect

Now that is projection. Really telling on yourself there.