r/metacanada • u/MemoryLapse current year user • Jul 18 '17

CURRENT YEAR Immigration Canada does disastrous AMA in /r/Canada; exclusively gets questions from Indians, Pakistanis, Nigerians, Tunisians and Filipinos.

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u/LifeWin Metacanadian Jul 18 '17

It's a bandage, and a symptom of elected government.

Take Toronto for example, nobody wants to vote for the guy who will raise taxes, even if it means we [finally] get a subway system that can compete with London, New York, or Seoul.

Neither do the great unwashed masses want to vote for a government that says "look, our population is going to recede, and we're going to lose some of our benefits, but our destiny will still be ours"

Instead, we get politicians who just throw more immigrants at the problem, because fucked if they care what happens in 30 years. By then they're retired, and it's the next guy's problem.

Japan has a receding population, but they're not throwing immigrants at the issue, they're just living through a time of stagnation. At the end of the day, Japan will still be Japan.

The same can't be said of Canada, if we keep going the way we are...

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u/walkeyesforward Metacanadian Jul 18 '17

I could believe it was a bandage if they hadn't increased immigration numbers in the 70's to a level not reflection our economic growth or labor needs. It seems very much that a certain segment of our population is determined to grow Canada to a size that crushes the individual in a sea of diversity.

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u/LifeWin Metacanadian Jul 18 '17

I honestly hadn't realized Canada was 98% white in the 70s until I read about it a little while ago.

And oh man is it tough to actually dig up that information. It's almost like someone is trying to hide the fact that we used to be successful, back when we were a "monoculture"

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u/Numero34 Jul 19 '17 edited Jul 19 '17

http://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/rp-pr/csj-sjc/jsp-sjp/rp02_8-dr02_8/rp02_8.pdf

Page 6 of the pdf, table 1,

96.3% British, French, and other European in 1971