Everything is immigration

Too many newcomers, for too few homes, doctors, and services remains the Alpha and Omega concern for a Canada made deliberately worse.

To borrow a little courage from the dearly departed Rex Murphy, now is a time to be unapologetically Canadian about the issues that matter most, and there remains no bigger issue than the Liberals sucking and blowing on how to best solve their immigration disaster, which with every passing month sets back any potential progress on housing, healthcare, or economic un-shittification by YEARS.

On this file, and along with a few others, I’m one of the supposed ‘xenophobes’ attempting to push this along to the best of my abilities. Operation Cash-In On One Gajillion Fake Students, Country Implodin’ Be Damned has made it into my columns for the Toronto Sun, reports here at the newsletter (but seriously, the Dean of Conestoga should be in prison), and in my missives to friends and ministers in high places, who are probably tired of receiving some variation of: “Hey, nice seeing you the other day. Say, when is your boss going to take a meaningful stand against these diploma mills?”

Increasingly, it’s even making its way into my work. I never imagined that Canada, with its reasonable and welcoming immigration system once the standard of the moderate, middle-powered world, would need to start throwing up our version of the stop sign, but we’re living in strange times. As I type this, another Khalistani gangster just strolled through Pearson International Airport on a strip-mall college ‘student’ visa, a future vehicular-homicider and repeat offender with limited prospects just got the all-clear from Immigration Minister Marc Miller, and a dozen members of MS-13 just strolled through a wide-open American border to the south.

The Liberals have acquiesced, ever so slightly, with slow-developing talks of ‘temporary caps,’ but the numbers remain eye-watering. In fact, Immigration Minister Marc Miller’s recent ‘solution’ proposed to the provinces — and a public increasingly up in arms — included “reducing the temporary resident population by offering permanent status to those who are already in Canada.”

That’s — yeah. I can’t even muster a pithy retort. That quote only ensures my hypothetical grandchildren will never own homes just like their hypothetical grandpa— provided he hasn’t died on a five-year-long waiting list by then.

So, folks like me keep working, we keep taking the odd barbs, while hoping our familiars understand the nuance and difference between advocating for non-suicidal numbers that give all of us initial immigrants a fighting chance, instead of rendering the whole Canadian experiment fruitless with current trends.

Here’s some of that recent work, for example:

“It’s not xenophobia . . . you don’t bring in a million people during a housing shortage crisis, where we don’t have enough family doctors, and say ‘we’re fixing the problem.’”

(In fact, with closer examination, the foreign-student-to-PR-pipeline that has been jury-rigged by governments and schools with a taste for wetting their beaks on increased tuitions and cheap labour over the past three years brings that number closer to 2.5 million.)

Most of Canada’s staggering 3.2 percent population growth rate now stems from ‘temporary’ immigration, which if the Liberals have it their way (and, perhaps, deeply disappointing premiers such as Doug Ford), may prove itself to be anything but temporary.

You’re not ‘xenophobic’ for recognizing how backwards this all is.

How exploitative.

How downright depressing.

To first fix a broken country, surely, we need to remember that we are a country. That means borders and citizenships of meaning, much as that makes Canada’s effete commentariat uncomfortable.

For the same reason I’d expect to be laughed out of Japan for applying for residency as an emphatically middle-class letter re-arranger, I expect my country to hold a similar standard.

With hundreds of thousands of diploma mill students having been recently found to have studied “management,” and not a highly-skilled trade, nor healthcare, the value-add is non-existent beyond ‘your college and government more than likely extorted you for money,’ and many willingly understood that and went along for the ride anyway.

Not because Canada was their first, second, or even third choice. Because we were easy. Because we’ve become obsessed with buying low-skill Indian labour in bulk.

And are we a country, or a Costco?

Trudeau likes to claim we are “competing” for newcomers. Of late, we’ve only been lowering ourselves to the occasion, while doing a piss-poor job disguising a growth-less economy.

Chrystia Freeland can bob and weave at a press conference, citing April job growth (!), when it’s 5000 call-centre employees in Prince Edward Island, who are supposed to be studying.

And in repeatedly lowering ourselves, Canada has now been presented with a set of demands from (predominantly fake) students who were either lured here or came willingly to cut the corner to a cheap and easy PR, only to find the screws slightly beginning to tighten.

Protests have now popped up outside (predominantly fake) schools in Ontario, British Columbia, and even in tiny Prince Edward Island, where ‘students’ are fighting back against receiving failing grades for ostensibly shoddy, part-time studying, and for the right to work full-time jobs instead of being in class.

With scenes that incompetent, that embarrassing, it has to be time to stop buying — and exploiting — in bulk.

When even our deeply compassionate and empathetic friend of the program Rupa Subramanya is saying, “Enough of this nonsense. Deport them now,” this has gotten well and truly out of hand.

Now is indeed a moment to be unapologetically Canadian; not for the Canada we’ve become, but for the Canada we can be again. There’s nothing to be lost from the already-progressive immigration targets of yesteryear and a higher expectation of applicants. In fact, we can only gain; particularly in homes, hard-working families with shared values, and doctors.

Short of that, we only condemn ourselves further. Want to create dyed-in-the-wool, real-live xenophobia? Keep making those stuck without houses, doctors, and hope feel like they’ve been rendered dispensable, not by their neighbours, but by an onslaught of competition. When your numbers are in balance, and all is deliberately less wrong in the world, that’s how you render ‘Replacement Theories’ resoundingly incorrect and redundant.

But by all means, weird Liberals, keep treating this incredible gift of dominion you were handed as some Costco, international airport, or Balkanized, anti-social, diasporic grievance factory.

You’re making it easy on us, your so-called ‘xenophobes,’ who would argue that a system that seeks to stuff 15 cheap labourers to a basement, and then pats itself on the back for being “pro-immigration,” is in truth anything but.

For that, we offer no apology.

Nor will we apologize for all the election results to follow.