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Could you provide a source showing that immigration is a meaningful factor?
by redserk 3y ago
Could you provide a source showing that immigration is a meaningful factor?
- mwbajor 3y ago[flagged]
- gottorf 3y agoThe article is talking about British Columbia, which is laughably underpopulated, like all of Canada. BC has a population of 5.5 million, which is two million less than Hong Kong; and if you overlaid HK starting at the western edge of Vancouver, you make it about halfway to Abbotsford. Vancouver Island alone is more than ten times the size of Hong Kong.
- SenAnder 3y agoUnderpopulated? Did the environmental movement flip in Canada, and they're now trying to get rid of their vast, pristine wilderness? The Canadian people are crying out to turn their forests into Hong Kong?
- gottorf 3y ago"Underpopulated" in terms of the GP's comment saying God isn't making any more land, yes. Like I said elsewhere in this thread, it's a policy tradeoff to preserve wilderness at the cost of a housing crisis.
- tharmas 3y agoJobs and climate determine where people live. There's no jobs in most places in BC so they go to the big city. And then there's climate. BC does have a better climate than most of Canada. However, most of Canada has a harsh climate. A lot of it is not really that habitable. The Canadian Shield covers most of Ontario and Quebec. There's a reason why most Canadians live within a 100 miles of the US border: Climate and Geography.