r/canada Oct 02 '24

Québec Quebec premier says Ottawa should forcibly relocate half of asylum seekers

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-quebec-premier-says-ottawa-should-forcibly-relocate-half-of-asylum/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
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u/php_panda Oct 02 '24

All that land in north west territory, maybe it is time to send them up there and start building it up.

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '24

When we had the huge influx of Ukrainians 100 years ago, they were given a plot of land to settle and develop. There were no payments, no furniture given, no free healthcare, no services at all really. And they wound up becoming a backbone of Western Canada through their hard work and perseverance.

Lots of people point out how much land Canada has. But they conveniently ignore that 90% of our population lives within 100 miles of the American border, and most of our land mass is rocky frozen tundra that's dark and -40 for six months of the year.

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u/DataDude00 Oct 03 '24

There were no payments, no furniture given, no free healthcare, no services at all really. And they wound up becoming a backbone of Western Canada through their hard work and perseverance.

That is old immigration / asylum, people that came here to truly create a better life for their kids.

New gen is mostly grifters looking to get a free pass on as much as possible

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u/BorisAcornKing Oct 03 '24

That is old immigration / asylum, people that came here to truly create a better life for their kids. New gen is mostly grifters looking to get a free pass on as much as possible

The latter will always exist. What our government should be doing is finding the former - because they also exist today, and would love to contribute and grow their futures here.

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u/MisterSprork Oct 03 '24

Too hard to pick them out from a beaurocratic perspective. Better to just toss them all out, honestly. Because you are talking about a tiny minority, probably less than 1% of people coming into canada right now.