Re: Canadia Welcomes Trump Refugees

On 2025-07-11 12:43 PM, EGK wrote:

On Fri, 11 Jul 2025 16:40:19 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
 

Welcome to Canadia!
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https://www.instagram.com/reel/DK2D18YuFQI/
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 I liked that one comment.  "So Canada is basically California.  got it.

Not quite. Our currency is worth a lot less than the US dollar so the comparison between the Seattle minimum wage and the Ontario one is even more in favour of the US than the video shows.
But politically, Canada IS a lot like California: too damn many "progressives" willing to vote for the Liberal Party despite their massive incompetence and malicious indifference to fiscal sense. The Liberals just keep spending money, despite deficits ballooning beyond anything this country has ever seen.
I hope you don't think Canadians are particularly happy about this turn of events. Remember, Canadians have no say - and have NEVER had any direct say - over immigration policy. The federal government sets that policy and only major issues can cause them to modify it and even then, any modifications are temporary. For instance, it became abundantly clear to everyone that we admitted too many people in recent years, particularly students on visas who often didn't actually go to school and instead worked full time. This caused housing to be extremely short and overwhelmed our health care system so the Liberals TEMPORARILY reduced numbers for a couple of years. Meanwhile, they have expressed eagerness to take in refugees from Gaza, as if we don't have enough disruption of things by students and professional protesters at pro-Hamas demonstrations. I remember a cabinet minister insisting that the need to bring in Gazans was so severe that we needed to abandon vetting because that might delay rescuing these people!
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Rhino