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More international students are seeking asylum in Canada, numbers reveal​

The number of study permit holders who sought asylum in Canada has more than doubled in the last five years, according to government data, which found eight of the top 10 post-secondary institutions with the highest refugee claimant numbers came from Ontario colleges.
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More international students are seeking asylum in Canada, numbers reveal

The number of study permit holders who sought asylum in Canada has more than doubled in the last five years, according to government data, which found eight of the top 10 post-secondary institutions with the highest refugee claimant numbers came from Ontario colleges.
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Leger Poll on Federal Government's Immigration Plan
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Richard White said:
Apparently Immigration is becoming a hot button issue on the minds of Canadians..

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They see what a mess Europe is in because of immigration. It's starting to happen here as well.


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Swedish PM says integration of immigrants has failed, fueled gang crime

Sweden has failed to integrate the vast numbers of immigrants it has taken in over the past two decades, leading to parallel societies and gang violence, Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson said on Thursday, as she launched a series of initiatives to combat organised crime.
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kEiThZ said:
Or housing. Or education. Or infrastructure. Or ...

But the Liberals aren't helping by simply bringing in a million annually and magically expecting it to work out. Failing to plan is planning to fail. And the polls are reflecting this. Voters will take it out on incumbents who have been in office the longest. And right now in many places that means the federal Liberals.
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What this country needs is for all three levels of government to directly begin building tons of rental housing, which the government would then sell to rental management firms. And no, not RGI or subsidized housing, just hundreds of thousands of market rent units across the country, and especially in the now unaffordable urban markets. The government would flood the market with rentals, thus bringing down the rental cost.
 
gabe said:
They see what a mess Europe is in because of immigration. It's starting to happen here as well.
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Sometimes it works. I cannot think of a single example of my people, ethnic English immigrants being involved in any non-familial violent crime. We are Canada's invisible immigrants.

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Invisible Immigrants

Despite being one of the largest immigrant groups contributing to the development of modern Canada, the story of the English has been all but untold. In Invisible Immigrants, Barber and Watson document the experiences of English-born immigrants who chose to come to Canada during England’s last...
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We just arrived, and got to work. As an immigrant kid in the 1970s and 80s I can't even imagine a gang of thugs made up of entirely English kids. It even sounds silly, like a Mr. Bean episode.

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Now mind, in the UK they are having huge issues with youth violence across all ethnicities, from the English to Indian/Pakistanis, Afro-Caribbean (Blacks), eastern Europeans and Arabs. So, it's not as if the English are not capable of youth violence, I just don't recall seeing it in an organized fashion in my immigrant community.
 
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What this country needs is for all three levels of government to directly begin building tons of rental housing, which the government would then sell to rental management firms. And no, not RGI or subsidized housing, just hundreds of thousands of market rent units across the country, and especially in the now unaffordable urban markets. The government would flood the market with rentals, thus bringing down the rental cost.
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From what I've seen of the federal government as a builder/developer on military bases, FNTs, etc. or as a landlord, I'm not sure I'd want them building much of anything. If nothing else, you'd probably add a decade and 10000 more public servants to the process.
 
lenaitch said:
From what I've seen of the federal government as a builder/developer on military bases, FNTs, etc. or as a landlord, I'm not sure I'd want them building much of anything. If nothing else, you'd probably add a decade and 10000 more public servants to the process.
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Agreed, but I’m not suggesting federal civil servants are wielding hammers and bulldozers. Instead, the Feds, Prov and cities would put rental projects to tender, with the government(s) footing the bill and then leasing the building to property management firms, with rental fees set to recoup the building cost. This is essentially how TCHC housing gets built, but I’m thinking of marketing value rents. The result will mean that the government will flood the rental market, forcing condo owners to reduce their rents to compete.

I must admit that I have not entirely thought this through, but if the best way out of the shortage of non-RGI housing is to increase supply, and yet the private sector is not doing it fast enough, the only solution I see is government intervention that floods the market with rentals and forces rents down. Note I focus on rentals, since property ownership is a whole other matter.
 
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Admiral Beez said:
Agreed, but I’m not suggesting federal civil servants are wielding hammers and bulldozers. Instead, the Feds, Prov and cities would put rental projects to tender, with the government(s) footing the bill and then leasing the building to property management firms, with rental fees set to recoup the building cost. This is essentially how TCHC housing gets built, but I’m thinking of marketing value rents. The result will mean that the government will flood the rental market, forcing condo owners to reduce their rents to compete.

I must admit that I have not entirely thought this through, but if the best way out of the shortage of non-RGI housing is to increase supply, and yet the private sector is not doing it fast enough, the only solution I see is government intervention that floods the market with rentals and forces rents down. Note I focus on rentals, since property ownership is a whole other matter.
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Oh, I understand that, but between procurement, project management, federal-provincial-municipal liaison (building codes, zoning, etc.) and on and on, my estimate of 10000 would be gobbled up in a thrice and we haven't even thought about land assembly. All governments are bureaucratic, but the feds have raised it to an artform.
 
Admiral Beez said:
What this country needs is for all three levels of government to directly begin building tons of rental housing, which the government would then sell to rental management firms. And no, not RGI or subsidized housing, just hundreds of thousands of market rent units across the country, and especially in the now unaffordable urban markets. The government would flood the market with rentals, thus bringing down the rental cost.
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You are assuming that governments are genuinely interested in solving the problem. I see no real evidence of this. Mostly just tokenism.
 
Though there are certainly reasons to complain about (and even vote against) Trudeau's government. The Economist this week gives Canada very high marks over their handling of covid.

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