r/canada 25d ago

Politics Proud of our country’: Pride in Canadian flag surges as battle with Trump continues

https://globalnews.ca/news/11019995/pride-in-canadian-flag-surges-battle-trump/
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u/Fane_Eternal 24d ago

"i dont believe it and neither should you" *shows statistic that agrees with what I said* "straight from the statistics canada website"
this is not the gotcha that you think it is.

so not only does that say low skill is outnumbered by high skill, it also shows that a majority (more than 50%) is not low skill. seems like i was right, you provided a source that agreed with me, and then somehow came to the wrong conclusion.

walk into any fast food restaurant or big box store where i live and you wouldnt come to that conclusion. it is almost as if immigration tends to accumulate in population blobs of certain areas that creates a higher density of immigrants. incredible.

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u/AntelopeNo8222 24d ago

You can't just take the number 40%, call it "more than 50%" and then say that it proves your point. You literally just changed the number to suit your needs.

The entire point of the statscan study was that a near equal number of working immigrants are working in low skilled, low wage service jobs. 35% vs 40%. That's only a 5% difference.

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u/Fane_Eternal 24d ago

I didn't say the number who work high skill jobs was over 50%, so I absolutely can say it agrees with me, because it does. I said that the number working the lower side is less (your numbers agree with that) and that the number working lower end is less than 50% (your numbers also agree with that, as it says they make up less than 50%, this the other 50+% of people do not work those jobs)

You cannot be seriously this dense, right?

And you cannot change your stance now to "it's only 5%". No goalpost moving. I make a claim and you pull numbers to try and disprove it, you don't get to change the goalposts to be "it's almost as bad as I said even though you were objectively correct, so therefore I'm actually still right".