Towered
Senior Member
Nah, it's not in our blood. Canadians are too chill to be belligerent. We gladly bend over and take it, and then ask for more.
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T3G
Senior Member
Not true! They certainly know how to scream at the poor minimum wage cashier at their local store. When it comes to making a scene they're hands on but when it comes to holding slimy politicians to account they couldn't care less.
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afransen
Senior Member
I'm thinking the horde of underemployed temporary residents/indentured servants may feel like they are being exploited and abused. There are already protests. I worry they can become violent.
jje1000
Senior Member
More gasoline on the fire. Miller is clearly insulating that it is impossible to make these temporary residents are already here to stay.
nationalpost.com
Decrease number of temporary residents by making them permanent, federal immigration minister suggests
Marc Miller met with provincial counterparts for the first time since announcing a plan to set limits on the number of new temporary residents
nationalpost.com
afransen
Senior Member
That's like reducing crime by legalizing illegal activity.
Admiral Beez
Superstar
This assumes they want to be permanent. Thousands of Caribbean and LATAM citizens come to Canada every year to work in agriculture and then readily return to their families back home, returning each year. They come for the money, not for the passport.More gasoline on the fire. Miller is clearly insulating that it is impossible to make these temporary residents are already here to stay.
Decrease number of temporary residents by making them permanent, federal immigration minister suggests
Marc Miller met with provincial counterparts for the first time since announcing a plan to set limits on the number of new temporary residents
Admiral Beez
Superstar
I don’t consider myself chill, but instead I think demonstrations and protests are a waste of time, especially when it's about trying to force Canada to influence other country's foreign or domestic affairs. I remember when the Tamil protestors blocked the on ramps to the Gardiner. The protests did nothing, and when the Tamil uprising ended in Sri Lanka everyone in Canada moved on with their daily lives. Same as today's Palestine/Israel protestors, when the conflict is over, the occupiers will pick up their tents, and return to whatever they were doing before. Even domestic protests are essentially pointless, like the Truckers to Ottawa, protesting Covid restrictions which were almost entirely provincially mandated. Once Covid ended, Canadians looked away and carried on.
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gabe
Senior Member
I support the protesters right to protest but like the freedom convoy idiots, the free Palestine protesters have taken it way too far. Stand on a sidewalk or public square and scream all you want, but setting up tents, vandalizing property, blocking traffic/public transit and assaulting people isn’t gonna solve anything! It’s making it worse!
When “activism” merges with narcissism, it becomes less about the cause and more about the ego.
Admiral Beez
Superstar
Honestly, if it wasn't for the media coverage I wouldn't even know there were Palestinian protests. They're having zero effect, AFAICT.
evandyk
Senior Member
I think they’re causing some minor disruption to U of T students and profs (my FIL is one, and his building was closed one day). But not enough that they couldn’t hold their huge science fair on the weekend without any issue.
afransen
Senior Member
For what it's worth, Bill recently had Bill Burr on his podcast, who basically called him out on his smug self-satisfaction and condescension. Maher was trying to keep it amiable but I don't think Burr was saying it jest.
I used to not mind Maher, but he is definitely becoming more like an old man in his thinking. Notwithstanding any particular position on Israel/Palestine which I view as a sideshow of essentially zero global importance. It is telling how those who are so concerned about Palestine are essentially unaware of if not utterly indifferent to, say, what is happening with uygher muslims in China. Not a small amount of the criticism of Israel is just blatant antisemitism.
kEiThZ
Superstar
Also telling how little concern they have for the treatment of Muslims in Russia in places like Chechnya or the suppression of Muslim Tartars in Occupied Crimea. Indeed, a good chunk of this lot actively cheers on Russia's genocidal work in Ukraine, just because the West supports Ukraine.
kEiThZ
Superstar
Trudeau is going to utterly destroy the consensus on immigration with policies like this:
www.theglobeandmail.com
financialpost.com
At this point, it's gotta be malicious. They can't be this incompetent.
Immigration to Canada surges in April, worsening outlook for housing affordability
Plus, BMO hikes target on the TSX
www.theglobeandmail.com
Posthaste: Canada's standard of living on track for worst decline in 40 years
Canada's GDP per capita is on track for the worst decline since 1985, says Fraser Institute study. Find out more
financialpost.com
At this point, it's gotta be malicious. They can't be this incompetent.
kEiThZ
Superstar
Landlords are throwing fundraisers for homelessness while renovicting their own tenants into homelessness. And people wonder why there is so much desperation to own.
www.thestar.com
When the Liberals get crushed, there should be no doubts why. They have enabled this behaviour with policy and market conditions. Heck, even foreign tax evasion is now a tenant burden:
www.theglobeandmail.com
In Canada’s bizarro housing system, there’s nothing more normal than a landlord evicting a tenant while raising money for the homeless
Canada’s housing system is all about profit and returns on investment. Housing security for low-income families is an afterthought — a “nice to have” that governments and charities should do
www.thestar.com
When the Liberals get crushed, there should be no doubts why. They have enabled this behaviour with policy and market conditions. Heck, even foreign tax evasion is now a tenant burden:
Foreign landlord fails to pay taxes, CRA goes after tenant
A Montreal tenant was audited and ordered to pay the tax he had failed to withhold on the monthly rent to his non-resident landlord
www.theglobeandmail.com
Admiral Beez
Superstar
I saw this article and thought that CBSA was right to cancel their visas.
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada...cle_0e883dd2-063f-11ef-a86e-8fc15352cd91.html
Her husband was here on a student visa, so presumably was supposed to either leave Canada at the end of his visa terms or obtain employment and apply for PR. She clearly had no intention of honouring the terms of her visitor visa and returning to Venezuela before it expired, but instead was seeking a back door to PR status.
Trudeau has no screwed up our immigration system. If you want to become a PR you should do what my family and I did, apply in your country of origin. Not sneak in the back door through disingenuous visa use.
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