As an immigrant myself, yes. It is very attractive just by the fact that Canada’s government isn’t 100% corrupt and it’s honestly very family friendly. Sure, there are problems, but they pale in comparison to a lot of other countries’.
It took me 5 months to find a good job (that wasn’t service) - so competition is tough and the initial steps are ridiculously expensive, but it’s all good. Infrastructure and systems are suffering right now, but in the next 20 years, I’m confident it will catch up.
Although global corruption is increasing, Canada is still one of the least corrupt countries in the world. According to the CPI, we are the 14th least corrupt country in the world
This makes me lose hope in the future of our world. But I guess I’m glad to live in Canada.
Coming from Uruguay, I didn’t feel a big change on that regard when coming to Canada, which I guess makes sense because we are tied on the ranking.
I think it sometimes takes interacting with people from other places in the world to realize how lucky we are in some sense.
corruption is getting worse every year
I know one political party loves to screech about this, but do you have numbers?
Is it worse than the same year where we signed FIPA into law and then, same year, a backdoor for China into our customs database? I think that was a rough year for us and our self-worth, but awesome for comedians.
let’s hope so. diversity is the spice of life.
Indigenous person here from northern Ontario … I think immigration is a good thing for this country … the more diversity and mixing that happens, the better it is everyone in general. Canada was founded on the mixing of cultures, races, ideas and religions … even though a small segment of society wanted to identify themselves as the dominant ones. In the face of one colonial culture that wanted to dominate everyone and everything … diversity was always in the background driving the country’s development (most often against the will of a minority few).
I can’t change who I am nor my ideas nor my culture nor my race … I live how I was taught and the same goes for everyone else and their backgrounds.
The change that happens is gradual and happens over generations. The ones to come after us will mix my culture with yours and anyone else and will create a new hybrid culture that may or may not be the same as mine or yours. They will always keep elements of our past but they will combine them with the best (or the worst) of who their descendants were.
The diversity I like to think about is not the diversity we have now or want to magically create today … the diversity I like to imagine is the one we will leave behind once we are gone.
Yes? Land is cheap, space is available, and it borders the US.
Who it’s attractive to will change over time however.
Land ain’t cheap where most of the immigrants end up going. Canada still offers a better quality of life but that will dimminish over time if housing issue is not addressed.
What we need is further investment in tech hub towns and cities, like Halifax did. In places that don’t burn/flood seasonally and have a reliable power supply. If that got spread out, housing wouldn’t be as much of an issue.
The number of places that don’t burn or flood is only going to get smaller as climate change ramps up
I fully agree with you and it’s encouraging to see things like “Alberta Is calling” campaign. But, I wish the federal goverment would be more involved in spreading the immigrants around our vast land. It feels like all they do is set targets and “job done”…
that will [diminish] over time if housing issue is not addressed.
Housing and Benefits funding are intertwined. It’s easy to kick the temporaries out, but no country will want to kick out the tax-paying short-timers who will eventually return home LONG before they retire and start really needing our support. Cost/Benefit-wise, our declining population needs TFWs who (outside aggra) pay high taxes and need fewer services, to stay afloat, like any caring nation needs.
The nordics have really figured this out, and despite a nine year waiting list for rentals in some urban centers, they still have TFWs and can still afford to maintain infrastructure.
I want it to stay that way, every new immigrant makes Canada better.
However we really, really need to start creating more housing for immigrants and those already here. Its not fair to the immigrants to make them live in shelters or squeeze into tiny, overpriced accommodations.
