Thanks Tara, this is an important conversation, and it needs to be had.
I have 2 small Airbnb's, and have over the last 4 years housed many immigrants arriving in Canada. I have several observations about this.
1. The people I have housed, are the high skills immigrants. They are the ones who came to Canada, because they are the top of the Points system.
2. These individuals were highly educated, and MA's & PHD's were the norm. Many were from the High Tech Sector, or Engineers. The only one that arrived with a job, was working for a College teaching immigrants.
3. They stayed in my Airbnb's because often they could not find housing. They also were not able to find work, that reflected their skills. (This is in Calgary where there should be demand for high skilled workers) Several individuals, actually worked on-line internationally. (Dubai, London, San Francisco, etc.) As a result, they had very little reason to integrate into Canadian Society.
4. These individuals were not poor. Usually, they had the funds to purchase a home or start a business when they arrived. What they could not find was affordable housing, and often ended up using their SEED money for day to day life.
5. Their qualifications were usually not recognized by Professional Associations.
If we are going to have this level of immigration, we need to also have a coherent plan on how we are going to integrate them into Canadian Society. This plan is simply not there. We are simply bringing people into Canada, and saying "Good Luck".
As a Canadian, I cannot support the policy as it is being implemented as it is inhuman both to the immigrants, and to the people already living in Canada.
Good interview. I hope it forms the foundation for a deeper investigation, as it was really just a primer: setting the scene and pointing out obvious ways in which the govt is straying from common sense and decency. Moffatt’s clearly a smart guy, but he refrains from addressing the issue in ways that might help us understand WHY the govt has let immigration get so out of control. It also ties into your other work, Tara, in how the cooption of the feminism movement has helped bring the birth rate down so catastrophically. Why has the govt chosen to solve our population problems (if we even have a population problem) by trucking in immigrants without assimilation, so that our communities have become further segregated? Why haven’t they encouraged the growth of families, the very fabric of our society? Surely, with the amount of money they spend on consultants, someone must have mentioned the dangers of these policies.
Everybody (govt excepted) already knows there’s a problem; the right only sounds racist because they’ve lost patience and are less polite than the left, but they’re not wrong: there are a lot of people in this country right now we should be kicking out. Why aren’t we? Is it racist to kick out an immigrant who’s a criminal? Is it racist to enter a neighbourhood where no one speaks English to French and feel like something is seriously wrong?
Stop pointing out that there’s a problem. Start looking into why they’re not solving it; or indeed, if they perhaps like things better this way. That’s the real issue.
Thanks Tara, this is an important conversation, and it needs to be had.
I have 2 small Airbnb's, and have over the last 4 years housed many immigrants arriving in Canada. I have several observations about this.
1. The people I have housed, are the high skills immigrants. They are the ones who came to Canada, because they are the top of the Points system.
2. These individuals were highly educated, and MA's & PHD's were the norm. Many were from the High Tech Sector, or Engineers. The only one that arrived with a job, was working for a College teaching immigrants.
3. They stayed in my Airbnb's because often they could not find housing. They also were not able to find work, that reflected their skills. (This is in Calgary where there should be demand for high skilled workers) Several individuals, actually worked on-line internationally. (Dubai, London, San Francisco, etc.) As a result, they had very little reason to integrate into Canadian Society.
4. These individuals were not poor. Usually, they had the funds to purchase a home or start a business when they arrived. What they could not find was affordable housing, and often ended up using their SEED money for day to day life.
5. Their qualifications were usually not recognized by Professional Associations.
If we are going to have this level of immigration, we need to also have a coherent plan on how we are going to integrate them into Canadian Society. This plan is simply not there. We are simply bringing people into Canada, and saying "Good Luck".
As a Canadian, I cannot support the policy as it is being implemented as it is inhuman both to the immigrants, and to the people already living in Canada.
Good interview. I hope it forms the foundation for a deeper investigation, as it was really just a primer: setting the scene and pointing out obvious ways in which the govt is straying from common sense and decency. Moffatt’s clearly a smart guy, but he refrains from addressing the issue in ways that might help us understand WHY the govt has let immigration get so out of control. It also ties into your other work, Tara, in how the cooption of the feminism movement has helped bring the birth rate down so catastrophically. Why has the govt chosen to solve our population problems (if we even have a population problem) by trucking in immigrants without assimilation, so that our communities have become further segregated? Why haven’t they encouraged the growth of families, the very fabric of our society? Surely, with the amount of money they spend on consultants, someone must have mentioned the dangers of these policies.
Everybody (govt excepted) already knows there’s a problem; the right only sounds racist because they’ve lost patience and are less polite than the left, but they’re not wrong: there are a lot of people in this country right now we should be kicking out. Why aren’t we? Is it racist to kick out an immigrant who’s a criminal? Is it racist to enter a neighbourhood where no one speaks English to French and feel like something is seriously wrong?
Stop pointing out that there’s a problem. Start looking into why they’re not solving it; or indeed, if they perhaps like things better this way. That’s the real issue.