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.
00:00:00.000If 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.
00:00:26.720Of 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.
00:00:47.200So 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.
00:01:01.840Yeah, 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.
00:01:18.240And 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.
00:01:33.960And the poverty line I believe now is like 27k.
00:01:36.300So that's 90% of your, uh, new Canadians not paying any taxes.
00:01:45.300This sounds harsher than I mean it, but literally being a burden, being like a tax burden on Canadians, like you say.
00:01:51.600Uh, 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.
00:02:06.300Nothing of what they were promised is true.
00:02:08.100This is not, you, you cannot come here and immediately have a higher quality of life.
00:02:12.900And it's not something that is able to be actually fulfilled anymore.
00:02:18.260This, this shifts party allegiance, you know, kind of by, by the generation.
00:02:24.140So when I say this, this is not something that like liberals do per se, but this is something that liberals are doing now.
00:02:31.780Uh, they are importing a voter base is what it feels like.
00:02:36.960And they did it in the sixties and the fifties before that it has switched parties over the years.
00:02:42.140Uh, the, at certain points in history, conservatives have done it in the U S a lot of people.
00:02:46.880I 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.
00:02:58.280Now, 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.
00:03:11.580That flipped that almost in and of itself has flipped California to being almost exclusively Democrat.
00:03:18.420And when I say that they were voted Republican, eight of 10 prior elections that even included areas like LA.
00:04:39.540Even if they may not necessarily, I've talked about this on the podcast before.
00:04:42.560Even if it's not necessarily in their, uh, in their own personal interests.
00:04:46.600As 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.
00:04:54.840They will vote that way if that's in their own best interest.