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Canada is struggling with this now. There is a balance between fixing demographic issues, and exacerbating existing inequality (housing-haves vs have-nots) and
by voisin 3y ago
Canada is struggling with this now. There is a balance between fixing demographic issues, and exacerbating existing inequality (housing-haves vs have-nots) and infrastructure inadequacies (our medical system is failing with too few doctors, nurses, etc to support existing population, let alone all the newcomers).
So it isn’t like opening the immigration floodgates is a magic bullet. There are definitely growing pains and it ideally is something that is phased in rather than a sudden reaction to a problem that should’ve been foreseen for decades.
- jstummbillig 3y ago> So it isn’t like opening the immigration floodgates is a magic bullet. It is not painless, but, for all intents an purposes, it is magic. Chemotherapy. Right now it really sucks, but, bar an actual (as far as I can tell) unforeseeable miracle, it is the only thing that is going to keep your system alive in a few years, Either you do the chemo now, or you are going to have a really bad time later. Right this second you might not feel the cancer, while the drug hits you hard. But are people really that confused about what it is going to happen if they refuse? The west can obviously always hope for wars to rage on, to at least have people at the then open door. Fingers crossed. But People will not be so super excited to leave Africa in, oh I don't know, 10 years or so. Living conditions are improving and people are actually not that excited about leaving a country, if everything is pretty okay in that country. Of course you are right, that does not make it easy and it could have been a lot simpler. That would have required foresight. Not our forte. Alas.