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Canada Now Has 35 Million People, Highest Growth in G8

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Canada is now home to 35 million people and has the fastest growth out of any G8 country even though we have one of the lowest fertility rates at about 1.5. Immigration is amazing is it not? This is how we fight an aging society by being accepting of immigrants but I guess it also helps we have a functioning economy and much lower rates of illegal immigration.

From the CBC
 
Canada is now home to 35 million people and has the fastest growth out of any G8 country even though we have one of the lowest fertility rates at about 1.5. Immigration is amazing is it not? This is how we fight an aging society by being accepting of immigrants but I guess it also helps we have a functioning economy and much lower rates of illegal immigration.

From the CBC

Sweet! Could you please educate us Yankee Doodles about the pros and cons of your healthcare system? There is so much hysterics about rationing and stuff on this side of the border that it would be great to hear straight from the horse's maple syrup drenched mouth.
 
Sweet! Could you please educate us Yankee Doodles about the pros and cons of your healthcare system? There is so much hysterics about rationing and stuff on this side of the border that it would be great to hear straight from the horse's maple syrup drenched mouth.

I don't want this to be a healthcare debate.
 
Canada is now home to 35 million people and has the fastest growth out of any G8 country even though we have one of the lowest fertility rates at about 1.5. Immigration is amazing is it not? This is how we fight an aging society by being accepting of immigrants but I guess it also helps we have a functioning economy and much lower rates of illegal immigration.

From the CBC

Good, let the little wanna be tolerant fools get a dose...

The Canadians would never tolerate what's happening in Chicago, and talk of banning guns would be treated as humor like it once was in the US.....
 
Good, let the little wanna be tolerant fools get a dose...

The Canadians would never tolerate what's happening in Chicago, and talk of banning guns would be treated as humor like it once was in the US.....

We would probably declare martial law on the city or let organized crime do the work. Handguns are heavily restricted (pepper spray, mace, etc. is illegal) and concealed carry is technically illegal in Canada and it applies to the whole country and have been since the 60s.
 
We would probably declare martial law on the city or let organized crime do the work. Handguns are heavily restricted (pepper spray, mace, etc. is illegal) and concealed carry is technically illegal in Canada and it applies to the whole country and have been since the 60s.

God forbid open carry......

Here in Chicago if you have a gun the cops will put a gun to your head (usually) and treat you like a terrorist - then ask questions - then lock you up for 10-20 hours and let you go while they confiscate your LEGAL fire arm... Then attempt to act like they're letting you go off "easy."

Oh, and you will be lucky if you're not beat up in the process....
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Progressives enjoy that tho.., They're the ones who employ it and endorse these measures....

Progressives call that logic and 'reasonable.' I call it an infringement on civil liberties.
 
Canada is now home to 35 million people and has the fastest growth out of any G8 country even though we have one of the lowest fertility rates at about 1.5. Immigration is amazing is it not? This is how we fight an aging society by being accepting of immigrants but I guess it also helps we have a functioning economy and much lower rates of illegal immigration.

From the CBC

This is getting out-of-hand. Already I can hear my neighbour when he uses his chainsaw and before he killed his roosters in the spring the racket was unendurable.
 
Sweet! Could you please educate us Yankee Doodles about the pros and cons of your healthcare system? There is so much hysterics about rationing and stuff on this side of the border that it would be great to hear straight from the horse's maple syrup drenched mouth.

Pro- Cheap drugs, free surgery and doctor visits
Con- Dental not included, wait list for some specialists, took me almost 8 hours to get 10 stitches in an ER.
 
Pro- Cheap drugs, free surgery and doctor visits
Con- Dental not included, wait list for some specialists, took me almost 8 hours to get 10 stitches in an ER.

I caught blade to the head at 10pm got 35 stitches to (25 inside to repari my problem and 10 ouside) my face, severed a nerve in my face and was out by 1AM...

I could see my skull before the stitches .... It took nothing more than a shot and 45 minutes (if that)...

I got split to my skull above my left eye and this doctor fixed me..... Today you can hardly see a scar.

On workmans comp I walk into the hospital with strepth throat and I'm out in 45 minutes with antibiotics....

I don't want to live in a world where some gangster gets shot up and I have to wait to be treated because.
 
I caught blade to the head at 10pm got 35 stitches to (25 inside to repari my problem and 10 ouside) my face, severed a nerve in my face and was out by 1AM...

I could see my skull before the stitches .... It took nothing more than a shot and 45 minutes (if that)...

I got split to my skull above my left eye and this doctor fixed me..... Today you can hardly see a scar.

On workmans comp I walk into the hospital with strepth throat and I'm out in 45 minutes with antibiotics....

I don't want to live in a world where some gangster gets shot up and I have to wait to be treated because.

Well, there ya go. I mighta got through earlier if I could have squeezed some blood out from under the bandage onto the floor tiles.
One guy ahead of me was there because his dog bit him. Didn't break the skin or nothing, just that the jackass thought he should get checked out. Maybe if there as even a token charge it'd discourage the time-wasters.
 
Canada is now home to 35 million people and has the fastest growth out of any G8 country even though we have one of the lowest fertility rates at about 1.5. Immigration is amazing is it not? This is how we fight an aging society by being accepting of immigrants but I guess it also helps we have a functioning economy and much lower rates of illegal immigration.

From the CBC

So, you don't want immigrants? What's your point? Canada has benefited immensely from immigrants. The legal stuff, not our illegal thing.
 
Pro- Cheap drugs, free surgery and doctor visits
Con- Dental not included, wait list for some specialists, took me almost 8 hours to get 10 stitches in an ER.

Just talking to a macho carpenter friend of mine in Quebec who hurt his finger several days ago and which is now black and yellow with a bad odor. He made an appointment earlier today for the Emergency room and will go in at midnight.
 
Wait till the Liberals build that Mexico to Canada superhighway. Then you will simultaneously find out what a nightmare immigration is and how easily a fragile healthcare system can be destroyed virtually overnight.
 
I don't want this to be a healthcare debate.


Seems like the Canuks heard about the Capitol of the Third World aka Los Angeles and then looked at all of America and noticed the destruction of the American culture, customs, tradition and language and opened their eyes.


>" This shameless immigration betrayal of Canada and the promotion of political party self-interest began in 1990 when one political party (the Progressive Conservatives) increased immigration levels to 250,000 per year. At the time they did this, they actually announced they were doing so in order to capture more of the immigrant vote. This may sound hard to believe because it is so brazen, but it is a fact. Since then, all other parties have adopted the same policy. All pretend that their actions are helping people in the rest of the world and that this immigration flood is literally and figuratively enriching Canadian society.

The reality is that it has obviously been destructive and senseless. Canada’s 250,000 per year immigration intake since 1990 has been far too high. In fact, Canada’s intake is the highest per capita in the world.

What are some examples of the destruction and senselessness? Our high intake has had major negative economic consequences for Canadians who are looking for work. In fact, it has forced many of Canada’s own unemployed to compete with immigrants for a limited number of jobs and it has impoverished many Canadians .

Absurd as it may sound, some naive, employed Canadians have actually launched “Recognize Foreign Credentials”, “Cultural Diversity in the Workplace”, and “Hire An Immigrant” campaigns to give immigrants that Canada never needed a hiring advantage over unemployed Canadian-born. And they smugly believe they should be given awards for throwing their own fellow citizens under the bus.


The destruction and senselessness these naive Canadians (as well as those with sinister intentions) have created has caused many Canadians (especially those in Canada’s larger centres) to become very angry. These Canadians feel that this social engineering project has raised “Diversity” to the level of a national goal. They feel this amounts to the country being ethnically cleansed and re-colonized. Finally, they see with their own eyes that Canada’s high intake has also turned many areas of the country into crowded, grid-locked, environmental disasters-in-progress..."< Excerpt from this.-> Canada's annual intake of 250,000 immigrants is far too high and makes no sense
 
Seems like the Canuks heard about the Capitol of the Third World aka Los Angeles and then looked at all of America and noticed the destruction of the American culture, customs, tradition and language and opened their eyes.


>" This shameless immigration betrayal of Canada and the promotion of political party self-interest began in 1990 when one political party (the Progressive Conservatives) increased immigration levels to 250,000 per year. At the time they did this, they actually announced they were doing so in order to capture more of the immigrant vote. This may sound hard to believe because it is so brazen, but it is a fact. Since then, all other parties have adopted the same policy. All pretend that their actions are helping people in the rest of the world and that this immigration flood is literally and figuratively enriching Canadian society.

The reality is that it has obviously been destructive and senseless. Canada’s 250,000 per year immigration intake since 1990 has been far too high. In fact, Canada’s intake is the highest per capita in the world.

What are some examples of the destruction and senselessness? Our high intake has had major negative economic consequences for Canadians who are looking for work. In fact, it has forced many of Canada’s own unemployed to compete with immigrants for a limited number of jobs and it has impoverished many Canadians .

Absurd as it may sound, some naive, employed Canadians have actually launched “Recognize Foreign Credentials”, “Cultural Diversity in the Workplace”, and “Hire An Immigrant” campaigns to give immigrants that Canada never needed a hiring advantage over unemployed Canadian-born. And they smugly believe they should be given awards for throwing their own fellow citizens under the bus.


The destruction and senselessness these naive Canadians (as well as those with sinister intentions) have created has caused many Canadians (especially those in Canada’s larger centres) to become very angry. These Canadians feel that this social engineering project has raised “Diversity” to the level of a national goal. They feel this amounts to the country being ethnically cleansed and re-colonized. Finally, they see with their own eyes that Canada’s high intake has also turned many areas of the country into crowded, grid-locked, environmental disasters-in-progress..."< Excerpt from this.-> Canada's annual intake of 250,000 immigrants is far too high and makes no sense

Not only Canada, I think the entire Western world was shocked at how easily a Liberal government was able to destroy our country and culture by allowing Mexico to colonize the former most powerful, prosperous country in the world. Now we are simply a dying country filled with desperation, rage and hatred. And of course "Tolerance."
 
Not only Canada, I think the entire Western world was shocked at how easily a Liberal government was able to destroy our country and culture by allowing Mexico to colonize the former most powerful, prosperous country in the world. Now we are simply a dying country filled with desperation, rage and hatred. And of course "Tolerance."

Tolerance :2mad:
 
Seems like the Canuks heard about the Capitol of the Third World aka Los Angeles and then looked at all of America and noticed the destruction of the American culture, customs, tradition and language and opened their eyes.


>" This shameless immigration betrayal of Canada and the promotion of political party self-interest began in 1990 when one political party (the Progressive Conservatives) increased immigration levels to 250,000 per year. At the time they did this, they actually announced they were doing so in order to capture more of the immigrant vote. This may sound hard to believe because it is so brazen, but it is a fact. Since then, all other parties have adopted the same policy. All pretend that their actions are helping people in the rest of the world and that this immigration flood is literally and figuratively enriching Canadian society.

The reality is that it has obviously been destructive and senseless. Canada’s 250,000 per year immigration intake since 1990 has been far too high. In fact, Canada’s intake is the highest per capita in the world.

What are some examples of the destruction and senselessness? Our high intake has had major negative economic consequences for Canadians who are looking for work. In fact, it has forced many of Canada’s own unemployed to compete with immigrants for a limited number of jobs and it has impoverished many Canadians .

Absurd as it may sound, some naive, employed Canadians have actually launched “Recognize Foreign Credentials”, “Cultural Diversity in the Workplace”, and “Hire An Immigrant” campaigns to give immigrants that Canada never needed a hiring advantage over unemployed Canadian-born. And they smugly believe they should be given awards for throwing their own fellow citizens under the bus.


The destruction and senselessness these naive Canadians (as well as those with sinister intentions) have created has caused many Canadians (especially those in Canada’s larger centres) to become very angry. These Canadians feel that this social engineering project has raised “Diversity” to the level of a national goal. They feel this amounts to the country being ethnically cleansed and re-colonized. Finally, they see with their own eyes that Canada’s high intake has also turned many areas of the country into crowded, grid-locked, environmental disasters-in-progress..."< Excerpt from this.-> Canada's annual intake of 250,000 immigrants is far too high and makes no sense

You do realize you are reading complete bull**** right? I am Canadian I know what is goign on and immigrants are benefiting this country by supplementing our workforce and replacing those who are retiring. We need immigrants willing to be doctors, daycare workers, engineers, etc. rather high skilled jobs that native Canadian just aren't filling and without immigrants we would have a very major and devastating demographic crisis.
 
You do realize you are reading complete bull**** right? I am Canadian I know what is goign on and immigrants are benefiting this country by supplementing our workforce and replacing those who are retiring. We need immigrants willing to be doctors, daycare workers, engineers, etc. rather high skilled jobs that native Canadian just aren't filling and without immigrants we would have a very major and devastating demographic crisis.

Where have I heard this leftist argument before ? :think:
 
You do realize you are reading complete bull**** right? I am Canadian I know what is goign on and immigrants are benefiting this country by supplementing our workforce and replacing those who are retiring. We need immigrants willing to be doctors, daycare workers, engineers, etc. rather high skilled jobs that native Canadian just aren't filling and without immigrants we would have a very major and devastating demographic crisis.

There will still be immigration but it will be more 'selective'.
 
There will still be immigration but it will be more 'selective'.

Like America with the IRA of 1965 that basically shut off most legal immigration from Europe and opened up allowing tens of millions of uneducated, unskilled immigrants from third world countries who would become dependent on government, demanding free stuff and voting the Democrat ticket to get that free stuff ?

>" Senate immigration subcommittee chairman Edward Kennedy (D-MA.) reassured his colleagues and the nation with the following:

"First, our cities will not be flooded with a million immigrants annually. Under the proposed bill, the present level of immigration remains substantially the same ... Secondly, the ethnic mix of this country will not be upset ... Contrary to the charges in some quarters, [the bill] will not inundate America with immigrants from any one country or area, or the most populated and deprived nations of Africa and Asia ... In the final analysis, the ethnic pattern of immigration under the proposed measure is not expected to change as sharply as the critics seem to think."

Sen. Kennedy concluded by saying,

"The bill will not flood our cities with immigrants. It will not upset the ethnic mix of our society. It will not relax the standards of admission. It will not cause American workers to lose their jobs." :liar (U.S. Senate, Subcommittee on Immigration and Naturalization of the Committee on the Judiciary, Washington, D.C., Feb. 10, 1965. pp. 1-3.)..."< :2rofll: :lamo

http://www.cis.org/1965ImmigrationAct-MassImmigration
 
Like America with the IRA of 1965 that basically shut off most legal immigration from Europe and opened up allowing tens of millions of uneducated, unskilled immigrants from third world countries who would become dependent on government, demanding free stuff and voting the Democrat ticket to get that free stuff ?

>" Senate immigration subcommittee chairman Edward Kennedy (D-MA.) reassured his colleagues and the nation with the following:

"First, our cities will not be flooded with a million immigrants annually. Under the proposed bill, the present level of immigration remains substantially the same ... Secondly, the ethnic mix of this country will not be upset ... Contrary to the charges in some quarters, [the bill] will not inundate America with immigrants from any one country or area, or the most populated and deprived nations of Africa and Asia ... In the final analysis, the ethnic pattern of immigration under the proposed measure is not expected to change as sharply as the critics seem to think."

Sen. Kennedy concluded by saying,

"The bill will not flood our cities with immigrants. It will not upset the ethnic mix of our society. It will not relax the standards of admission. It will not cause American workers to lose their jobs." :liar (U.S. Senate, Subcommittee on Immigration and Naturalization of the Committee on the Judiciary, Washington, D.C., Feb. 10, 1965. pp. 1-3.)..."< :2rofll: :lamo

Three Decades of Mass Immigration: The Legacy of the 1965 Immigration Act | Center for Immigration Studies

Here is someone who said the direct opposite of what Kennedy said and was roundly vilified at the time for saying it. Now we can look back to see who actually spoke the truth.

Enoch Powell's 'Rivers of Blood' speech - Telegraph
 
Just talking to a macho carpenter friend of mine in Quebec who hurt his finger several days ago and which is now black and yellow with a bad odor. He made an appointment earlier today for the Emergency room and will go in at midnight.

Well, that's a weird story. Gotta be more to it than that. Quebec has had a pretty socialist government for a few years and they put a lot of budget into social programs. I think you got wrong information.
 
Seems like the Canuks heard about the Capitol of the Third World aka Los Angeles and then looked at all of America and noticed the destruction of the American culture, customs, tradition and language and opened their eyes.


>" This shameless immigration betrayal of Canada and the promotion of political party self-interest began in 1990 when one political party (the Progressive Conservatives) increased immigration levels to 250,000 per year. At the time they did this, they actually announced they were doing so in order to capture more of the immigrant vote. This may sound hard to believe because it is so brazen, but it is a fact. Since then, all other parties have adopted the same policy. All pretend that their actions are helping people in the rest of the world and that this immigration flood is literally and figuratively enriching Canadian society.

The reality is that it has obviously been destructive and senseless. Canada’s 250,000 per year immigration intake since 1990 has been far too high. In fact, Canada’s intake is the highest per capita in the world.

What are some examples of the destruction and senselessness? Our high intake has had major negative economic consequences for Canadians who are looking for work. In fact, it has forced many of Canada’s own unemployed to compete with immigrants for a limited number of jobs and it has impoverished many Canadians .

Absurd as it may sound, some naive, employed Canadians have actually launched “Recognize Foreign Credentials”, “Cultural Diversity in the Workplace”, and “Hire An Immigrant” campaigns to give immigrants that Canada never needed a hiring advantage over unemployed Canadian-born. And they smugly believe they should be given awards for throwing their own fellow citizens under the bus.


The destruction and senselessness these naive Canadians (as well as those with sinister intentions) have created has caused many Canadians (especially those in Canada’s larger centres) to become very angry. These Canadians feel that this social engineering project has raised “Diversity” to the level of a national goal. They feel this amounts to the country being ethnically cleansed and re-colonized. Finally, they see with their own eyes that Canada’s high intake has also turned many areas of the country into crowded, grid-locked, environmental disasters-in-progress..."< Excerpt from this.-> Canada's annual intake of 250,000 immigrants is far too high and makes no sense

Whooa!
Immigration is what Canada needs, and more of it. Never mind history, which shows that Canada's (few) problems have always been related to a low population, we are particularily now hurting for young skilled tradesmen. Canada's white European base is at zero population growth at a time when our resource (labour-intensive) industries are pressured for growth.
Look at a map. Canada is a huge country and a small nation.
 
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