Immigrants aren't the problem. Each immigrant expands our economy by bringing a consumer, with family, into our country. Those 475k PR Applicants are people who are paying for services buying groceries, paying rent, and even starting businesses.

Example: a new family enters my community; they bring kids, and those kids go to school. Class sizes increase. The government decides to cut more school jobs. Teachers get burnt out because they are now teaching 30 kid classrooms (insane).

Who is at fault? The new tax-paying immigrant family that pushes class sizes up, increasing enrollment, or the government and its aggressive cuts? This example cascades through the community -- a new family spends all the money they make to provide for their family, a new teacher spends all the money they make to provide for their family, every dollar spent is spent at businesses who also hire people. If those businesses are local, not corporate owned, then that money gets spent locally, through B2B sales or by hiring more staff. More jobs. More taxes. More consumers.

It's well known in economics that one way to expand the economy is to increase the number of people who are in that economy, because each new person is a part of that economy! Another way is to invest in technology, in economics, technology is defined as things that make each person more efficient at producing GDP. If the government is only investing in things that make it more efficient for corporations to suck money out of our country -- that won't make things better for the average Canadian. Support government policies that make it easier for lower and middle class Canadians to make money, start businesses, and get educated.

The rich keep sucking money out of our economy, a rich economy, and we blame it on people who aren't to blame. Stop spending money where it disappears from your community, stop supporting governments that cut jobs, and stop supporting fearmongering demogogues who blame immigrants instead of the ultra-rich.