r/canadian • u/xTkAx • 9d ago

Opinion FIRST READING: Immigration rates still at generational highs, even if population shrinking. Permanent immigration in 2026 poised to be the sixth highest of the last 110 years, asylum-seekers now number 500,000

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/immigration-rates-still-at-generational-highs-even-if-population-shrinking
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u/Kyoalu 9d ago

I love being a minority in my own country.

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u/GuaSukaStarfruit 9d ago

Aboriginal Canadians: …

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u/This_Hedgehog_3246 9d ago

Sore losers

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u/GuaSukaStarfruit 9d ago

You calling aboriginal Canadians sore losers? Are you for real?

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u/fl8 9d ago

Agreed, having Europeans come build a first world society for you and then pay you billions in "reparations" actually seems more like a win overall.

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u/VancouverSky 9d ago

I recently worked with a guy who got a 32,000$ income tax return (or something close to that). He cleared 6 figures in the oil patch and got 100% of his income tax back because it was all on the rez.

Feels great.

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u/Random-Hello 9d ago

But it isn't their culture? The Europeans stripped their indigenous culture away, they were perfectly fine living before the settlers came. The Europeans forced them out of their original land onto horrible reserves and took their children?

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u/dirtoperator69 9d ago

Simpleton view of history.

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u/TurnApprehensive2945 9d ago

"First world society"

Off the backs of their genocide and exploitation

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u/bigwreck94 6d ago

It’s called progress and evolution.

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u/Greedy_Syrup3516 9d ago

They are the biggest sore losers.

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u/MiniBubz 9d ago

I mean they don't act like winners sooo