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Canada's immigration system favors engineers and skilled professionals. As the comment I was replying to put it this is a way for rich countries, like Canada,

Canada's immigration system favors engineers and skilled professionals. As the comment I was replying to put it this is a way for rich countries, like Canada, to drain the resources of poorer countries. This process benefits you, because you prefer to live in Canada compared to your home country, and it benefits Canada, because they get more professionals, but it hurts your home country who loses professionals.

FredPret 4y ago
What do Canada, and I, owe my home country? Arguing I should stay there because I was born there is not even just nativism, it implies countries own their citizens as property. This idea would set the whole world back. If they wanted me to stay, they could have tried harder to create a nice environment for smart people there.
- ALittleLight 4y ago
  This is simply an improved version of colonization - rich countries extracting resources from the poor. Only now, the rich countries don't have to bother with the maintenance of the poor countries - they just drain the valuable citizens and leave the rest. As to what you, or Canada, owe your home country - this is a nonsense question. Either there are moral obligations between people or there aren't. If there are, then the rich taking from the poor (Canada importing professionals) or the relatively well off abandoning their poor countrymen (professionals departing their homeland for better lives in rich countries) are likely failing those moral obligations. If there are no moral obligations you owe nothing but neither is anyone else obliged to not point out the resource extraction.
  - FredPret 4y ago
    Where are the lines of obligation drawn? Do I owe allegiance to my home country, which is a political entity with arbitrary borders? If so, why? Or do I owe my efforts and talents to the poorest people? Again, why? Or to all humanity? To my family, to like-minded individuals? If you think it’s wrong for me to have emigrated for a better life, well, off you go then, you go save the people of Africa.
  - midoridensha 4y ago

FredPret 4y ago

What do Canada, and I, owe my home country? Arguing I should stay there because I was born there is not even just nativism, it implies countries own their citizens as property. This idea would set the whole world back. If they wanted me to stay, they could have tried harder to create a nice environment for smart people there.

ALittleLight 4y ago
This is simply an improved version of colonization - rich countries extracting resources from the poor. Only now, the rich countries don't have to bother with the maintenance of the poor countries - they just drain the valuable citizens and leave the rest. As to what you, or Canada, owe your home country - this is a nonsense question. Either there are moral obligations between people or there aren't. If there are, then the rich taking from the poor (Canada importing professionals) or the relatively well off abandoning their poor countrymen (professionals departing their homeland for better lives in rich countries) are likely failing those moral obligations. If there are no moral obligations you owe nothing but neither is anyone else obliged to not point out the resource extraction.
- FredPret 4y ago
  Where are the lines of obligation drawn? Do I owe allegiance to my home country, which is a political entity with arbitrary borders? If so, why? Or do I owe my efforts and talents to the poorest people? Again, why? Or to all humanity? To my family, to like-minded individuals? If you think it’s wrong for me to have emigrated for a better life, well, off you go then, you go save the people of Africa.
- midoridensha 4y ago