＂Systems Are Being Completely ABUSED＂ - Daniel Tyrie on Canada's Immigration and Integration Crisis
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Summary
In this episode of the Canadian History Project, we are joined by the author of the new book, "The Great Immigrants: How Canada Lost Its Identity: The Story of a Country That Lost Its People" to mass immigration. In this episode, we discuss the history of mass immigration in Canada, its impact on the economy, and the impact of mass migration on the social fabric of the country.
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but i i think where you're coming from is you're looking at the almost like the supply and demand
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like it's a numbers game aspect of like well we only have so much space in our hospitals we only
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have so many houses we only have so many things and we currently are a welfare heavy country
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and all these social programs the more you feed into it the more these programs are strained and
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they have not grown proportionately with the population and this is a large influx of people
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who are there's no pressure to fully assimilate so this is like a different flavor of immigration
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than what was happening even in like the 80s and 90s where you have people fully integrating and
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adopting canadian values in a way that we're not seeing now and it's interesting that you bring up
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the the kind of 80s and 90s because this is really when in my book mass immigration started
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so under brian mulroney who was prime minister in the in the 80s um he transformed our style of
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immigration uh before then we had what was kind of colloquially known as a tap on tap off style of
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immigration so when the economy was hot and we needed more workers uh government quotas would go
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up and we'd bring in more people when the economy was stagnating or or doing badly they would turn
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off the taps and there would be very little to no immigration now that these factors have been taken
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off completely we've seen a gradual change now we're in in this radical period where things are
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completely out of hand as you're saying the systems are being completely abused um and a lot of it is is
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pushed uh to the uh to the next level by these temporary programs foreign students temporary foreign
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workers which have really grown obscenely since since the period we're indicating but that's why i
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wanted to bring it back to that period um this completely different style of immigration allowed for
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better integration into socially and into our economy these things are intertwined um whereas now
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especially with this burden of temporary uh migrants who you know have even less incentive to
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to integrate into our society because they're not even going to be here uh permanently um we're seeing
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really uh much larger social impacts so uh to bring it back to to the original question around uh
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remigration uh remigration is a kind of term that's been taking off mainly in europe where uh where
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they've seen uh many many of these european countries are a little bit ahead of us uh as a regard of
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waves of migration and migrant crises that have impacted those countries uh simply put it's it's
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kind of an umbrella term including a wide variety of policies with the general ends of uh returning
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foreigners to their homeland but it's rooted in this uh idea that mass immigration has not only caused
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economic problems which it definitely has um but also uh it's rooted in the concept that
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a country is more than just economic boundaries with uh with laws and an economy countries are based
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based on nations and and strictly speaking uh a nation like these while they're often used as synonyms
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as country nation it's it's not exactly accurate a nation is a group of people with common ancestry a
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common history a common culture a common language um it's really the the next building block beyond the
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the family unit um the nation is is really an extended family um and uh remigration is kind of rooted in this
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idea that uh mass immigration especially but immigration policies in general uh when they when
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used irresponsibly uh have an impact on the ethno-cultural identity of the nation and fundamentally
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transforms them into something else and we've been seeing this especially in in uh areas and even
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cities that have become at the ghettos uh the common ones people point to are things like brampton
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and surrey um so uh remigration is not just to to protect the economic interests of canadians or
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or whatever nation that we're focused on it's also to preserve the the culture and identity of those