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Ten Reasons To Rethink Mass Immigration To Canada<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Published On: May 1, 2024Tags: Immigration<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Riley Donovan<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Swiss novelist Max Frisch, referring to the foreign \u201cguest workers\u201d allowed into Europe after the Second World War, said, \u201cWe wanted workers\u2026but we got people instead.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Housing Crisis<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

This one is simple enough: Prices are determined by the relationship between supply and demand. As Canada\u2019s population has grown through large-scale immigration, which reached a rate of nearly 1.3 million in 2023 alone (when including non-permanent residents like foreign workers and international students), both home prices and rents have soared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vancouver, Toronto, and Hamilton are now the three least affordable cities<\/a> in North America. In his 2010 book Millionaire Migrants<\/a>, <\/em>UBC (University of British Columbia) Professor David Ley found a positive correlation coefficient of 0.94 between Vancouver and Toronto house prices and net international migration. For more evidence on the relationship between immigration and housing prices, check out Madeline Weld\u2019s excellent article on the topic: \u201cBlatantly Oblivious to the Blindingly Obvious<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The result is social chaos and displacement, with younger generations feeling locked out of the housing market and delaying having children, and elderly Canadians on a fixed income returning to work to meet rent or mortgage payments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. Strained Healthcare<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

This one is also pretty simple: Immigrants need healthcare too! Adding large numbers of future patients from overseas every year is exacerbating the pre-existing problems with our healthcare system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Though the population has grown by 5 million people in the last ten years alone, Canada has added just 167 medical residencies<\/a>. In 2023, Canada accepted 471,550 permanent residents, as well as around 800,000 foreign workers and international students. Despite the federal government\u2019s claim that the solution is to bring in doctors and nurses from overseas, in reality, we only accept about 4,000 immigrant healthcare workers<\/a> per year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a result, more than 6 million Canadians and counting do not have access to a family doctor<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. Farmland Loss<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Despite having the second-largest landmass in the world, just 4.3% of Canada is arable<\/a>, and 90% of Canadians live in a winding line of settlements within 160 KM of the U.S. border<\/a>. Most immigrants settle in this same strip, which drives urban expansion: 15 million acres of farmland have been lost since 1976. Ontario loses 319 acres of farmland<\/a> every day. Since 2001, Canada has lost the equivalent of seven small farms per day<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This loss of farmland weakens Canada\u2019s food security, forcing us to depend on importing food from other nations\u2014in an increasingly fractious world order. It also fuels urbanization, threatening Canada\u2019s beloved countryside landscapes, and the rural lifestyle many of us are attached to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4. Crowding of Schools<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Like so many effects of mass immigration, the overcrowding of Canadian schools is a function of the law of supply and demand\u2014which our political elite is apparently unaware of! Simply put: Provinces and school districts are being overwhelmed by large numbers of additional students from newly-settled immigrant families. In Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown and Stratford received 375 newcomer students who were neither predicted nor planned for<\/a>. Surrey, B.C., is considering putting schools in high rises<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To be sure, school crowding is not the fault of the immigrant families in question. Both immigrant and native-born Canadians alike are the victims of the classroom crowding caused by an out-of-control federal immigration policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5. Foreign Interference<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

From the alleged Chinese interference in recent Canadian elections<\/a> to the assassination of Khalistan separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar<\/a> outside a Surrey temple, Canada is now a hotspot for foreign interference. While politicians of all stripes have denounced the meddling of foreign states in Canadian affairs, none have explicitly linked it to the presence of large foreign diaspora populations on Canadian soil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fact is, the presence of large diasporas invites foreign interference. This is especially true of China, which considers all ethnic Chinese to be nationals of China\u2014regardless of their place of residency. For Xi Jinping, overseas Chinese play an irreplaceable role<\/a> in China\u2019s rise. The link between diaspora populations and foreign interference appears to be an ironclad rule of geopolitics, and has been seen in Europe as well, with Turkish president Erdogan urging Turks in Germany to vote against German Chancellor Merkel<\/a> after a diplomatic rupture between the countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

6. Declining Living Standards<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Large-scale immigration is touted as necessary to Canada\u2019s economic success, but this could not be further from the truth. While Canada\u2019s immigration-driven population growth does grow the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), it lowers GDP per capita. In other words, while the economic pie grows, most people\u2019s slice gets smaller!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This process has gotten so bad that the National Bank of Canada released a report warning that Canada is in a \u201cpopulation trap\u201d<\/a> whereby any increase in living standards is impossible\u2014a problem which usually occurs in emerging economies like India or Sub-Saharan Africa!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

7. Urban Sprawl and Densification<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The federal government describes immigration in abstract terms: addressing labour shortages, offsetting ageing populations, or growing the GDP. In reality, immigrants are not just workers, they are people\u2014people who need a roof over their heads! To accommodate immigration-driven population growth, a large amount of Canada\u2019s energy and wealth is spent endlessly building both single-family developments and high rises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The urban sprawl strategy is most visible in places like Calgary, with new cookie-cutter developments being continually built on the surrounding prairie. Alberta saw a population boom of 184,000<\/a> in 2023 alone (with international migration accounting for far more than interprovincial migration), so this looks likely to continue. The densification approach is most apparent in British Columbia, which recently abolished single-family zoning in most communities<\/a> to accommodate immigration-driven population growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

8. Declining Social Cohesion<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Social cohesion is a measure of the strength of the bonds linking members of a group to each other\u2014and to the group itself. As ethnic and cultural diversity increases because of large-scale immigration, the number and severity of society\u2019s cultural fault lines increases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One way in which this is manifesting in Canadian society is brawls between or within diaspora groups. On September 2nd, 2023, about 150 Eritreans clashed in the parking lot of Calgary\u2019s Falconridge Plaza<\/a>, armed with sticks and pipes. Similar clashes occurred in Edmonton and Toronto. The origin of the disputes was a difference of views about the government in Eritrea. In November of 2023, viral videos emerged<\/a> of a clash between Hindus and Sikhs on Diwali in Mississauga.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

9. Incompatible Cultural Practices<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Most of Canada\u2019s immigration now comes from India, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. While culturally rich in their own way, cultures and religions in these regions often hold values diametrically opposed to those of Anglo Canadian and Quebecois society. The result is the import of behaviours incompatible with\u2014or even offensive to\u2014the Canadian way of life, such as:<\/p>\n\n\n\n