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Canada is having an immigration Crysis (the country can't run that many people on the hardware it has, it would need a huge upgrade to handle the influx). The people are noticing. Like many cities in the USA that are finally having to face up to the immigration policies they have supported and voted for, it is leaving a bad taste in everyone's mouth.
It may actually lead to replacing Castro's secret son this next election cycle.
The change in tone in the Canadian spaces that I frequent online and in person (being a border state and having family there) has been nothing short of unbelievable. Where I was called out as a stupid bigoted American (in less severe terms) for opposing open borders in my own country (while canada had a much more restrictive immigration policy going on I might add (am I including too many parenthetical asides?)), now Canadians are the ones telling me that no one speaks English/French anymore and that pretty soon their downtown is going to look like New Delhi at rush hour.
Wait times at medical clinics have gone from weeks to months to years, housing is 5x more out of whack than the US, and many expats once seeking a kinder Canadian way of life are returning home to the USA.
-Notes from a Canadian adjacent person
I heard a bunch of complaints too - Conestoga university's apparently been turned into a degree mill for non-English speaking foreigners: https://old.reddit.com/r/Conestoga/comments/18exnwz/diploma_mill/
https://old.reddit.com/r/Conestoga/top/
Same thing has been happening in Australia too - our universities get most of their money from foreigners (far more lucrative than domestic students) and try hard to pass them no matter what. There's an epidemic of cheating and the unis are most concerned with trying to arrange a facade where they catch the most egregious 5% of cheaters. ChatGPT made things a lot harder too, though there was already a lot of cheating even before. Some of my friends did teaching and they were in a constant state of shock and contempt at the limp-wristed response to cheating.
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