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[–] grte@lemmy.ca 31 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Most likely an excuse to cover pulling more equipment/manpower from the area to throw at the failing Iran war.

[–] grte@lemmy.ca 36 points 2 days ago (2 children)

So it's a pro sex trafficking rally.

[–] grte@lemmy.ca 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Fraser Institute

Fraser Institute

Fraser Institute

[–] grte@lemmy.ca 28 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This guy is a Peter Thiel blood boy who is only where he's at because of Thiel. Literally given a ladder to riches.

[–] grte@lemmy.ca 22 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] grte@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Here is a hot take. Most of our housing crisis was from people abusing our Student visa program. It was dishonest and corrupt from the getgo. The students were trapped in worthhless diploma mills and were not on a path to citizenship anyways.

In that case, the people abusing the system were the diploma mills scamming foreigners and we should probably be pursuing legal action against such entities. But even so, letting those scammed students stay if they want benefits us because it provides both a consumer and producer of value to add to our society.

We couldn’t build housing fast enough so we get rooming houses, soaring rents and investor driven real estate prices. Notice how rents and prices have fallen significantly since we stopped this. It’s not anti-immigrant. Its closing a loophole. We needed to catch a breather.

They've fallen somewhat, but so have housing starts so this is short term relief that isn't doing anything to fix the issue. The truth is that, it isn't that we can't build housing fast enough, it's that we are choosing not to build fast enough because so many of the decision makers in our society have their wealth tied up in real estate. Until the government is directly building housing, we are not taking this problem seriously.

We still have abuse of the TFW program to deal with. Kids still can’t get jobs because employers prefer the abuseability of TFW.

I would say that the TFW program isn't immigration at all. It's a labour disciplining program. It should be eliminated entirely because we shouldn't be having second class not-citizens in our society at all. But we should be bringing in similar amounts of people with the aim of making them full citizens who aren't in a position to be abused the way TFWs are.

[–] grte@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (9 children)

This turn against immigration is really the dumbest, most self-defeating thing Canada can be getting up to. You know why the US presents such a threat to us? Because they represent a productive capacity of around ~340 million people while we represent a productive capacity of ~40 million people. They managed that by having extremely lenient citizenship requirements (for whites, but we can adopt similar policy without the racism) for most of their history.

Pursuant to this power, Congress in 1790 passed the first naturalization law for the United States, the Naturalization Act of 1790. The law enabled those who had resided in the country for two years and had kept their current state of residence for a year to apply for citizenship. However, it restricted naturalization to "free white persons" of "good character". Oddly, the law authorized any "court of record" to perform naturalization. In other words, for over 110 years, any federal or state court of record could naturalize a qualified applicant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_immigration_and_nationality_law_in_the_United_States

Which, far from collapsing, turned it into the wealthiest and most productive country on Earth at the time.

[–] grte@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 days ago

Trump is going to do what? Lean hard into a bubble before it pops? Great, let him do that. Let's not compete with him on being as stupid as possible.

[–] grte@lemmy.ca 29 points 5 days ago (5 children)

Because he's a trickster! Haha! And if you fall for one of his tricks, he sends you to hell! For eternity!

The sanest worldview.

[–] grte@lemmy.ca 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

...Walmart's what?

[–] grte@lemmy.ca 30 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

I don't think that's unexpected. This is going to come out of left field a little but please humour me. Recently there has been talk of 'AI psychosis' where people lose touch with reality because they overuse AI chatbots and their obsequious behaviour reinforces unhealthy mental states. Well, I think that is likely a more general effect that doesn't actually require chatbots. I think wealthy people are able to cut themselves off from most people while simultaneously ensuring that the people that are around are yesmen, which I suspect leads to the exact same thing as people are calling 'AI psychosis'. It would explain why so many wealthy people are so...Off.

 
 
 

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Not directly Canada related, however with Canada signing contracts with Palantir, I think there's a lot of useful information for Canadians in this article.

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