The Critical Compass Podcast - November 21, 2024


Is Canada Setting Up Immigrants to Fail？ ｜ A Critical Compass Clip

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4 minutes

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171.53

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856

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44

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Ronald Reagan

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In this episode, we discuss immigration and its effect on our political parties and how it affects the way we vote. We discuss the benefits and drawbacks of immigration and the impact it has on our politics. We also talk about the benefits of immigrants and their impact on our economy.

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00:00:00.000 If Canada's letting in 500,000 to almost a million because some of them are temporary foreign workers and then if there's so many coming in and they're competing for a limited number of either jobs or homes or resources and they're not able to individually thrive, then that means we've exceeded the level of immigration that is beneficial to those individuals because now they're struggling.
00:00:26.720 Of course they want to come to Canada, they're told they have this amazing opportunity so they're sold this idea but I don't know if the reality lines up and then if they're dependent on help from government, like subsidies for any number of these programs, well that's not government funded, that's taxpayer funded.
00:00:47.200 So they're not generating those taxes to pay for those, it's Canadians who have lived here for how many years who are putting in these long hours who are still just struggling to make ends meet by themselves.
00:01:01.840 Yeah, I think I saw the statistic, I think it was, there's probably a broader one but I saw one specifically about Syrian refugees because I don't know how long ago that was, six or seven years ago maybe when there was a really big influx of Syrian immigrants.
00:01:18.240 And I think the statistic was in the last, in the last, in the last, in the, you know, five or seven years, however much it was since, um, it was, uh, the majority of Syrian immigrants arrived in Canada, uh, only, it's like only 10% or something are, are earning over the poverty line.
00:01:33.960 And the poverty line I believe now is like 27k.
00:01:36.300 So that's 90% of your, uh, new Canadians not paying any taxes.
00:01:45.300 This sounds harsher than I mean it, but literally being a burden, being like a tax burden on Canadians, like you say.
00:01:51.600 Uh, and it's, yeah, like there's how many, you know, you, it feels like you see a new article, uh, weekly now about people who, from different parts of the world, like I remember seeing one about, uh, uh, Indian, uh, immigrants who are leaving because there's like, there's nothing, like nothing.
00:02:06.300 Nothing of what they were promised is true.
00:02:08.100 This is not, you, you cannot come here and immediately have a higher quality of life.
00:02:12.900 And it's not something that is able to be actually fulfilled anymore.
00:02:18.260 This, this shifts party allegiance, you know, kind of by, by the generation.
00:02:24.140 So when I say this, this is not something that like liberals do per se, but this is something that liberals are doing now.
00:02:31.780 Uh, they are importing a voter base is what it feels like.
00:02:36.960 And they did it in the sixties and the fifties before that it has switched parties over the years.
00:02:42.140 Uh, the, at certain points in history, conservatives have done it in the U S a lot of people.
00:02:46.880 I don't know why people don't talk about this more, and I'm not sure exactly where I heard this, but in the U S California had voted Republican in eight of the past 10 federal elections prior to Ronald Reagan.
00:02:58.280 Now, Ronald Reagan, he was supposedly a proponent of allowing Mexican migration into, into California, California being, becoming a, somewhat of a sanctuary state for Mexicans.
00:03:11.580 That flipped that almost in and of itself has flipped California to being almost exclusively Democrat.
00:03:18.420 And when I say that they were voted Republican, eight of 10 prior elections that even included areas like LA.
00:03:24.620 So they were staunch.
00:03:28.920 There was California was a red state.
00:03:30.940 And when a Republican wanted to use what the, the impression was a Republican wanted to use immigrants as a, as a voting block.
00:03:41.380 Well, then people started voting against that.
00:03:43.380 So it's not just a liberal thing, but it's a, it's a politics thing.
00:03:46.220 People in politics do it all the time.
00:03:48.340 It's not racist to say that you're, you're using immigrants as a voting base.
00:03:53.120 It's just an observation of what a, a, a struggling political party has determined its only course of action to win another election is.
00:04:02.860 It's yeah.
00:04:04.060 Like it makes sense that within whatever the five years it is to become a citizen, that politically speaking is, that's not a long time.
00:04:13.380 So an influx of people at the point that they're voting.
00:04:17.200 And if they're still struggling those five years later, they're not going to vote for a party that would decrease their benefits.
00:04:24.620 And if they're sold an idea that only those on the left will provide for you and give you what you need, then of that makes sense.
00:04:37.380 Why there's it's in their own interest.
00:04:38.960 Of course.
00:04:39.460 Yeah.
00:04:39.540 Even if they may not necessarily, I've talked about this on the podcast before.
00:04:42.560 Even if it's not necessarily in their, uh, in their own personal interests.
00:04:46.600 As most of these people come from areas of the world that are not particularly liberal and don't, they don't lead particularly liberal day-to-day lives.
00:04:54.840 They will vote that way if that's in their own best interest.
00:04:57.280 Of course.
00:04:57.800 Of course they will.
00:04:59.400 Of course they will.