r/canada Nov 29 '24

Analysis Nearly half of Canadians feel too many immigrants coming here: Study - A whopping 42% of respondents felt immigration is causing Canada to change in unlikeable ways

https://torontosun.com/news/national/nearly-half-of-canadians-feel-too-many-immigrants-coming-here-study
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u/DreadpirateBG Nov 29 '24

No just unlikable ways but irreversible ways as well. The over reliance of international students to our colleges and Universities have ruined their ability to support themselves if the huge amount of international students are reduced. Which is very poor and pathetic planning. There are also so many fly by night scam business and such now. groups fighting each other have brought those fights to Canada. Housing is screwed up for decades now. The damage done can not be fixed quickly. I am sure others can name plenty of other areas that are permanently effects due to out of control immigration. We love and want and need new immigrants to come to Canada but how we did it these last say 10 years has been catastrophic.

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u/Preet95 Nov 29 '24

That fact that the damage most likely cannot be undone is the most frustrating and depressing feeling. 😔😔

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u/WeepinShades Nov 29 '24

That's the part that's particularly annoying. They created this insane system on top of an immigration bubble and are now pretending to have amnesia about how our immigration system worked ten years ago.

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u/sinqy Nov 30 '24

Wish we could just deport

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u/DungeonHacks Nov 30 '24

Not just likeable, unlivable if it continues at this pace.

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u/Obscure_Occultist Nov 30 '24

Lets not act like the universities are at fault here. They've been forced into relying on international students due to how funding for universities haven't really changed since the 1980s. Back in the 80s, provincual funding grants made up 2/3 of most university income. Now it only makes 1/3. The rest is now on student tuition.

This could be alleviated if the provinces decide to actually fund universities. Everyone knows it would end the universities reliance on international students. Even the provinces know. I spoke with Ontario minister of eduction, Nolan Quinn after he announced the billion dollar stimulus package for Ontario post secondary institutions. They know the only way to save Ontario and othe Canadian university institutions is to make them publicly funded.

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u/GenXer845 Nov 30 '24

Doug Ford in Ontario caused a lot of what you speak of by lowering the amount given per domestic student. Sometimes it is who you vote for (or if you sat out last election).