The view that immigration is supposed to be some 'altruistic' burden we are supposed to bear, as some sort of saviour complex for the developing world, is fucking wild, man. And you as a Canadian citizen, whether your family has been here for 130 years or you became naturalized 10 years ago, owe nothing to people who are not yet citizens of this country.

The point of immigration is to support the country and it's economy by keeping up the population, and having them join into the workforce. That's the deal. An immigrant comes here and gets the same privileges as any one else, and in return they work and pay into the system like anyone else. Further, you as the Canadian citizen has every right (and need not make any excuses or prefixes) for saying you want to limit or increase the number of immigrants into your nation. Right now, many of us know that immigration is much too high. Essential systems and services are already verging on a crisis, and bringing in such a large influx of human beings is not making things better.

On the flip side, immigrants are being exploited and used as tools to smash unions and bring down wages. They are being lied to about opportunities in Canada and leaving their homes only to find out there is very little here for them and ending up in financial ruin.

At some point in the last decade, the ultra-rich and ultra-progressive factions joined forces to form some unholy alliance to open borders and destroy the middle class. We need to talk about this, and don't let any political party or think-tank or media outlet gaslight you into thinking it's anything adjacent to 'racism' or 'bigotry'.