Pull Factors
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Summary
Canadians are a generous people, forged in a hostile environment, we develop strong communitarian ties as a mode of survival, but our generosity is being abused. We do not owe foreigners the same benefits. It s time to axe the programs, shut down the asylum system, and send these economic migrants back home.
Transcript
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Immigration in Canada is so dysfunctional. Honestly, it's hard to believe. People from
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anywhere in the world can apply to enter Canada on a tourist visa. When they get here, they can
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download an app to claim asylum. No in-person vetting process, just a tap on your phone screen
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and suddenly you're an asylum seeker. Then, regardless of the accuracy of your claim,
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you get to sit in the backlog process for what can be years. There are roughly 500,000 open
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claims right now. While you wait, you get to enjoy generous, free, or rather taxpayer-funded,
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healthcare through the IFHP, which even includes things like pharmaceuticals,
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prosthetics, and dental care, things that even Canadian citizens don't necessarily have access
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to. If they have children, they can put them in our education system. Technically it's not allowed,
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but it's not enforced either. Then, if you happen to have a child while you're here,
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the government will pay you almost $8,000 per child per year. The Canadian government has
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paid more than seven billion dollars over the last nine years to non-citizens through the
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kid and the child benefit and on top of that those kids are automatically granted canadian
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citizenship which can then be used to get citizenship for their parents or even extended
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family members even if an asylum claim is ultimately rejected these people have still
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got to enjoy years of taxpayer-funded benefits and if they have a child they are almost guaranteed to
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stay this is why people keep flooding into our country not only are they not punished they reap
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rewards for abusing our system we call these pull factors government incentives that are pulling
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migrants into our country the migrants aren't really to blame here they're only acting rationally
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given the set of incentives offered by the canadian government the first step towards
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re-migration is to end all of these programs these people will start to return to their
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countries voluntarily as soon as we turn off their benefits they have no loyalty to this country
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they are here purely for the free stuff even more broadly it is time for a modernization of the
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asylum program we must view all policies through a nationalist lens the question should not be what
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is the most fair behind a veil of ignorance it should be how does this benefit the canadian
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people if the answer is it doesn't the policy is in need of reform or repeal canadians are a
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generous people forged in a hostile environment we develop strong communitarian ties as a mode
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of survival but our generosity is being abused our people deserve the best in the world but we
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It's time to axe the programs, shut down the asylum system,
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and send these economic migrants masquerading as asylum seekers back home.