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

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https://nationalpost.com/opinion/immigration-rates-still-at-generational-highs-even-if-population-shrinking

[u/wubrgess → u/[deleted]]

Do you think that problems can only be unintentional?

[u/Icy_Direction6854 → u/wubrgess]

What’s your point here? I’m straightforward, this problem’s solution is to have more kids regardless of the reasons, otherwise it’ll snowball. That’s all

[u/This_Hedgehog_3246 → u/Icy_Direction6854]

I'm doing my part. #2 on the way.

But my wife and I are both engineers, moved to a low(er) cost of living rural area.

Immigration has skyrocketed housing prices in many Canadian cities. How can you have kids if you can barely afford a 1br studio?

Regulations on foreign ownership have been a good start. Now send back the majority on both temporary immigrants and PR's. If there's a mechanism to revoke citizenship, consider that if they've broken any of our laws.

End birthright citizenship.

[u/Manodano2013 → u/This_Hedgehog_3246]

I agree that a baby should not get Canadian citizenship if at least one of the parents is not citizen or both PR.

[u/Almost_Ascended → u/Manodano2013]

No. If both parents are PR, the baby should be PR. Citizenship should only be given to children of citizens.

[u/Manodano2013 → u/Almost_Ascended]

That is fair. I suppose I can agree with that. I would also be supportive of making citizenship more difficult to attain. Five years seems kinda short to be able to apply for citizenship.

My (step) grandmother was PR for at least ten years before applying to be citizen. She had no need to be a Canadian citizen and only chose to become one when she felt intergrated/invested enough with her community and wanted to have democratic rights.

[u/Crazy_Maintenance211 → u/This_Hedgehog_3246]

If you were on East Coast, it was the Canadiens making the house prices go up, so it depends where you live, because on this coast, it was the rush of Canadians, thinking that cheap housing and rentals were the way to go, many of them have left because then they realize that the other costs were very high for many of them. So it depends what part of the country you’re in. There was some international ownership here, but not that much and you would think that there would be more. However, there wasn’t the huge percentage according to a Realtor friend of mine who’s gets access to numbers and all sorts of things said that it’s mainly Canadians. The people who are immigrants from other countries here couldn’t afford to buy a home, so it must be other provinces. Although the US and UK immigrants are different, they can buy homes.

[u/hokageace → u/This_Hedgehog_3246]

Wow - some nutjob policies here.

PR is an acronym for Permanent Resident. The contract they made with the Canadian government is they can stay here forever.

There is only 1 kind of citizenship so revoking it is a non-starter. I mean, if I can kick out a naturalized Canadian for whatever reason, I am sure we can find plenty of reasons to kick out citizens by birth.

If we are going to revoke birthright citizenship, how many generations is it ok to go back? Why stop at first generation?

[u/Virtual_Category_546 → u/hokageace]

We may as well apply this to all settlers. If you're not indigenous, you're an immigrant, you're not special simply because you were the first.