Bad Immigrants?
Happy belated Canada Day.
My mother-in-law lives in Toronto, which has radically transformed over the past two years. All of the white people have left. The morning rush hour is a sea of brown-skinned faces.
The city looks like India.
Canada’s prime minister, Justin Trudeau, has declared that his country needs 500,000 new immigrants per year. He tells the public that this is due to labour shortages. As the workforce ages and retires, newcomers must take their place.
As a result, immigration has skyrocketed, and so has the Canadian population (see below chart). One third of the country lives in the metro zones of Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, and Calgary. This makes it difficult to absorb a large influx of migrants, most of whom settle in cities.
Trudeau’s immigration policy is wrong for at least three reasons.
Immigration reduces everyone’s wages.
Immigration raises house prices.
Immigration weakens social cohesion.
I suspect there are more sinister reasons for Justin Trudeau’s relaxed approach to immigration. A prominent globalist company, McKinsey, is driving his government’s policy. This firm is also responsible for fuelling the United States’s opioid epidemic.
Despite all of this blackpilling, there is one reason to remain optimistic: immigrants bring conservative values and religious tradition. In a post-national state like Canada, this could be a good thing. It could hasten the demise of wokeness.
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Foreigners Are Takin’ Our Jerbs!
Mass immigration means lower wages. As foreigners enter a country, they compete with native-born people for jobs. This competition results in workers accepting less in compensation.
Harvard professor George Borjas has shown this to be true. In 1980, for example, 125,000 Cuban refugees flooded into Miami, Florida. These refugees were low-skilled, and most were high school dropouts. Borjas demonstrated that because of this influx, “the wage of high school dropouts in Miami dropped dramatically, by 10 to 30%.”
Because of immigration, Canadian wages are also decreasing. Although wages in 2022 went up by 5.1 percent, inflation over the year was 6.8 percent. Therefore, the real wage in Canada fell by 1.7 percent. In inflation-adjusted terms, Canadians are poorer.
The foolish response to this is that immigrants do the jobs which natives won’t. This claim betrays an ignorance of supply and demand. A labour shortage causes wages to rise, to attract more workers. After all, college graduates would rush to be janitors if such jobs paid $100,000 or more. Markets solve labour shortages, without immigration.
Canadians Will Live In The Pod
The average house in Canada costs $716,000. The average income in Canada is around $70,000. This means that the typical Canadian, even if he submits a $150,000 down-payment and has no debt, cannot afford a typical house. Only the top 3 percent of income earners can — a problem that immigration has made worse.
Immigration increases house prices. As immigrants crowd into dense urban spaces, they bid up the price of homes. Wealthy newcomers out-bid Canadians, making housing unaffordable.
Constructing more houses can solve this. If more property is built, then prices fall as scarcity is resolved. However, economists suggest that unless home construction increases by 50 percent, immigrants will continue to push up Canadian home prices.
Not only is the average Canadian earning less in real income, but he is also priced out of the real estate market.
Societal Collapse
The CEO of CIBC, one of Canada’s largest banks, recently warned of a “social crisis” if mass immigration persists. Indeed, the recent riots in France demonstrate the perils of untrammelled immigration. As the common saying goes, “If you import the Third World, then you become the Third World.”
I doubt Canada will descend into the anarchy of France, but things could get ugly. Ethnic diversity is bad for public goods provision. One study finds that American cities with more diversity spend less on education, roads, sewers, and trash pickup. This effect has been observed everywhere, and is termed ‘the diversity deficit,’ which immigration aggravates.
Canada is already seeing signs of this. Toronto has delayed in fixing its roads, due to budget shortfalls. Elementary schools are struggling with the inflow of refugee children. Canadian healthcare is getting worse. I regularly see more trash on the street than I used to.
Violent crime is also rising. Two months ago, a Sudanese man killed a mother and her 11-year-old child. The attack took place in Edmonton, a city which has seen a 16.5 percent rise in violent crime over the year. From January to May, violent crimes on Toronto public transit rose by 24 percent. Clearly, Canada is becoming more chaotic.
Is this due to immigration? Based on the academic literature, I would say that this is major factor.
McKinsey
Canada’s immigration policy was drafted by McKinsey & Company. McKinsey is a strategic partner to the World Economic Forum, and a signatory to the UN Global Compact. In other words, the company is globalist. It also has a history of dirty dealings.
For example, McKinsey helped drive the U.S. opioid crisis, which has killed over 800,000 Americans. The company promoted opioid sales and helped pharmaceutical companies skirt around regulations. Because of these misdealings, McKinsey paid $600 million to settle a case against it in 2021.
McKinsey has also conducted corporate raids, culling workforces to boost profits. A McKinsey consultant will fly into a factory in rural Ohio, conduct an analysis, and recommend firing half the staff. Once this happens, the consultant pockets a hefty bonus.
The Trudeau government has paid McKinsey an exorbitant $117.4 million in fees, mostly for immigration-related work. Given McKinsey’s globalist leanings, as well as its shady past, I am concerned.
A Better Approach
I am not entirely against immigration. My mother-in-law, whom I mention at the outset, is an immigrant. If it were not for immigrants from Eastern Europe, Greece, and Russia, I would not be an Orthodox Christian today.
However, policy must be sensible. Canada should reduce immigration, while prioritizing entrepreneurs and high-skilled foreigners. These kinds of migrants improve economic growth and benefit Canadian workers. The People’s Party of Canada has a reasonable immigration plan which follows these tenets.
Mass immigration causes chaos, with unpredictable results. Yet this may also work in favour of conservatives.
For example, a group of Muslims recently protested outside of Justin Trudeau’s office, complaining about LGBT curricula in schools. A Romanian trucker was the most enthusiastic Freedom Convoy participant. And Palestinian demonstrators oppose Canada’s relationship with Israel.
Right-wing and based men can step into such a chaos, and offer to clear the smoke. A benign dictatorship may follow.
Canada could end up like Dubai, a wealthy city where 90 percent of the population is foreign. Dubai’s ruler maintains this balance by denying foreigners of rights. Immigrants are welcome, but they must integrate and follow the rules — or else. Emiratis, the native-born people of Dubai, are given privileges and handouts. Society functions well.
(Dubai is in the UAE, the fifth-richest nation in the world when measured by GDP-per-capita.)
The White Pill is that Canada could turn into such a society. Like the UAE, Canada is a resource-rich land with a growing foreign-born population. Laws can be passed which privilege Old Stock Canadians, while depriving immigrants of full rights. The latter would be handsomely rewarded for their work, but the bulk of wealth would be transferred to native-born Canucks.
Trudeau won’t reverse course on his immigration stance. Canada will continue to take in hordes of foreigners. Perhaps the best Canadians can hope for is some version of Dubai.
Much of this is going to reverse after the GAE (Global American Empire)/USD collapse.
Look for it this Winter, coming to a country near you!
Reducing recent immigrants to guest worker status would certainly be an improvement to the current state of affairs, in which Canada's native sons are made second class citizens.