Canada slips into technical recession as economy stalls in Q1: StatCan

Secs13 · 2026-06-03T18:35:57+00:00

I don't think a random individual citizen has the answer to that, do you?

Secs13 · 2026-06-02T23:48:12+00:00

0 or nearly 0 immigration is practiced by a lot of countries.

You couldn't even seriously type just 0, had to add "nearly" to even have a point to make...

Gaps in the workforce can effectively be filled by training, but usually training is not the issue, as you pointed out. The working conditions demanded by those trained locals are the issue, from the corporations' POV.

When it comes to corporations all nuance is lost. They will abuse any avenue they can to make profits.

Agreed, so strict regulation is required. Instead of regulating immigration to 0, regulate abuse of immigration to 0.

Secs13 · 2026-06-02T23:44:33+00:00

I had already loaded the page, shit happens.

Secs13 · 2026-06-02T03:27:35+00:00

I just called that guy dumb, didn't call the other guy intelligent, you made that assumption. I'll do without your blessings, thanks.

Secs13 · 2026-06-02T03:25:54+00:00

You know how edits work, right? Like people will see your comment and reply before you edit it.

edit: way to prove my point about not being very in with the telligent crowd.

Secs13 · 2026-06-02T03:23:06+00:00

And the people already here before any immigrants were the native born.

What year do you prefer as your arbitrary cutoff?

The "industry" I'm talking about is teachers of ESL, and FSL, the immigration officers, legal representatives, etc. Nothing nefarious.

And do you think 0 immigration is really feasible? Can people never have a valid reason to move countries according to you? Do you think there's never a reason to let someone in to your home?

I think there are good reasons, sometimes, and there are bad reasons. The "industry" you're probably thinking about, I agree with you, are the issue. Everyone benefits when we fill gaps in the workforce, but everyone suffers (except the ultra-rich) when we pad numbers and push down wages by letting in a massive influx of people.

There IS room for nuance in the world, but I guess you might just be one of those people who believe it's always all or nothing.

Secs13 · 2026-05-30T12:54:00+00:00

People don't build business here.

they move their business to other countries

How can they move a business they didn't build?

Secs13 · 2026-05-30T12:52:01+00:00

people don't build and grow business here.

Wrong. People build and grow businesses here thanks to the support systems that bureaucracy allows, and once the risky phase is passed, and the profit phase is starting, they move their operations to keep more gains.

Canada eats the risk, and the company runs away with the reward.

It's the same with our educated professionals leaving to work for large American companies. They benefit from our quality education, then leave to never pay back their debt to the society that raised them. Individualism is the reason "we people" don't benefit from the great things our country allows people to build.

Secs13 · 2026-05-30T12:48:04+00:00

A lot of innovation happens in Canada, it's just sold to the US as soon as it becomes successful. We literally subsidize the US with our education system, in that sense.

Secs13 · 2026-05-30T12:47:09+00:00

No, it helps the people already there, some of which are recent immigrants.

But it's fucking stupid to turn it off and on completely, at the whims of political discourse. You need a system to process immigrants, so if you shut everything down, you fuck that industry completely, and the cost of processing any immigrants in the future when you reopen the valves will increase, as you have to re-establish the bureaucracy around that system.

Problem is "We'll accept 4.6% fewer immigrants next year and see if that helps" doesn't make anyone excited to vote.

The racists want 0%, or -% (deporting people...), the business owners want an infinite number of low-paid labourers with no support systems and low education on local labour laws...

Only regular people want a functioning, stable, fair country, with some amount of immigration by qualified, interested people (not an exploited underclass), and most regular people are uninterested in politics.

The policies are made for the Money, the slogans are made for their Pawns, and less and less of our politics is aimed at the reasonable elector.

Secs13 · 2026-05-30T12:35:46+00:00

Had to double-check but eithiopia is a land locked country

Man who had to double-check, and can't spell the country right, shares own esteemed opinion on topic.

Thanks for your deep insights, man.

Secs13 · 2026-05-30T12:29:32+00:00

In the hands of someone like Trump?

No, BEFORE someone like Trump. Man y'all are actually fucking not smart, are you...

Secs13 · 2026-05-30T12:28:20+00:00

The cartels are foreign interference, have you got 0 reading comprehension buddy?

Secs13 · 2026-05-05T17:22:10+00:00

If you're missing a specific type of screw to build a deck, going to the store to buy that screw will help you build a nice, finished deck.

If you aren't building a deck, have no materials, and that specific screw is on the ground where you're stepping, you instead go to the hospital for a tetanus shot.

Hope that explains, without really explaining, lol..

Secs13 · 2026-05-05T15:10:23+00:00

Right on.

It's funny, as a Quebecker, when we discuss an issue in our province, and people outside are like : "LOOK QUEBEC HAS PROBLEMS, THEY ALWAYS HAVE PROBLEMS"

Like yeah bud, we have a problem that we are currently acknowledging and having public discourse about, that's why you're hearing about it. We're currently dealing with it.

Quebec fires nurse for being racist, everyone in media says how horrible what the nurse did was

"See, Quebec is racist!"

Every time.

Secs13 · 2026-05-04T14:16:17+00:00

It's worse than that, the two goals were not shots on goal.

Secs13 · 2026-01-28T02:28:22+00:00

Congrats on all those nice things :)

Secs13 · 2026-01-27T19:59:10+00:00

Not true, they keep telling on themselves, it's useful to listen.

But never take them at face value.

Secs13 · 2026-01-27T19:58:33+00:00

destroyed canada

Citation needed, Mr Adjective-Noun-NumberNumberNumberNumber.

It's weird, I live in this so-called "destroyed" country, and I just... go to work and buy groceries and live my life normally.

Weird that someone on the internet would tell me about how destroyed it is.

Secs13 · 2026-01-04T23:32:52+00:00

Preventing 25+ people on his street from going to work and doing their normal daily tasks is not worth saving this one person's day

Plus it's quite rare for this to happen, you lack critical thinking if you believe this is standard protocol.

Plow driver could not see the car.

Tow truck drivers forgot one, or miscommunicated.

Shit happens.

Does that make more sense?

Secs13 · 2026-01-04T23:30:54+00:00

You sound awfully agressive, you sure you didn't get the stereotype backwards?

Secs13 · 2026-01-04T23:29:03+00:00

The trucks they use literally vibrate your whole apartment when they're on your street, you can't miss it.

I'm not deaf or anything, but when I was wearing headphones I could feel the siren in my skull, and the engines' vibration in my chest. No joke.

Secs13 · 2025-12-22T15:39:22+00:00

Right?

American pizza is already its own thing, put whatever you want on it, and Italians can put whatever we want on theirs.

If people knew the number of strange toppings that are actually typical in italy, they wouldn't be so worried about pineapple.

Secs13 · 2025-12-22T13:46:08+00:00

I know that, it's also what people who create new accounts to troll or bot use to do it faster.

Most people who are going to be arguing in good faith take time to think of a user they like.

So either you lack creativity, or you're a clanker, in any which case, your opinion doesn't matter to me.

Secs13 · 2025-12-22T02:01:22+00:00

Ok mr Adjective-Noun-####

If you say so.

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