Canadian government wants to triple the country’s population to 100 million over the next 90 years. In order to do that, they will ramp up their extremely successful “Professional Immigration” program. ( It’s the program that brought me to Canada, by the way.)
450,000 of highly educated people with a good knowledge of English and French and enough money to self- fund will be admitted annually.
This is a brilliant plan. I’m shocked that the government of the silly Trudeau fellow thought of something so smart. With the global warming, more and more of Canada’s enormous territory will become habitable, and it makes sense to fill it with people who will push the country far ahead of competition.
This is one of the things that weakened national governments can do to preserve legitimacy: anticipate the trends of the future and ride them. It’s great to see that somebody is thinking long term and doesn’t get stuck on the trivial electoral needs of the next 5 minutes.
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Isn’t Canada’s population going to triple on November 9th, anyway, after Trump wins the election? 🙂
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Please NO!
We need people who can actually contribute to society and to the economy. The last thing we need is a SJW whose only skill and contribution is the ability to draw pie charts of supposed income inequality.
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In other words, the end of the nation state will not reduce inequality between countries, but will massively increase it (while massively increasing global population).
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Merkel’s approach is different. She is trying to reduce inequality by bringing in immigrants based on their need. We’ll see which model is more successful.
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Merkel’s approach has resulted in a sky-rocketing crime rate. Rapes, robberies, sexual assaults, drug dealing are now completely out of control. There are “NO-GO” zones all over the place. I could go on, but you get the idea.
What’s worse is that the MSM do not report on these problems at all. Only the alternate media dares to provide this information. Any attempt to speak the truth is met with charges of racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, or whatever thought crime du jour the social justice warriors can come up with. Face-borg and Twitter routinely delete anything which could even be remotely perceived as anti-immigrant.
You academicians in your ivory towers have no clue or conception of what you’re doing to ordinary people, or if you do then you simply do not care. For once come down from your high perch and work in a bakery or repair roads or do some other type of blue collar work. Live with the people and try to get an understanding of what daily life for them is like.
Or better yet put on your best Slut Walk attire and stroll through one of these NO GO zones.
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I love the smell of triggering in the morning. 😀
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Although it’s less stupid than massive refugee immigration, I don’t think this is a so good idea, especially in Québec, where we have an excess of overeducated people who can’t find a job.
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In Quebec, employers are desperate for programmers and website developers. They outsource the work to Ukraine because nobody can be found locally.
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“They outsource the work to Ukraine because nobody can be found locally.”
Who is willing to work for the measly pay they offer.
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It’s not in the least measly. It’s not the issue of employers not wanting to pay. It’s the issue of there not being enough programmers.
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If it’s not measly then why do they have to go to a country sunk in economic crisis?
No countries between Canada and Ukraine (economically) produce programmers?
I’m not buying it. They’re going to Ukraine because a Canadian pittance will go pretty far in Ukraine.
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One example is not the general situation
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Ukraine is a hub of IT innovation today. Our programmers are, indeed, among the best in the world. A lot of the software everybody uses today originated in Ukraine. I had a list somewhere and I’ll post it when I find it.
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Here is one short article on the subject: http://horoshiyblog.livejournal.com/2129577.html
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One example is the not the general situation.
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These immigrants are not allowed to seek unemployment benefits so they all get employed and create workplaces for locals. I don’t know anybody who arrived on Professional Immigration and is not employed. However, almost every person I know who came in claiming some (completely imaginary) hardship is out of work and on welfare. This is, of course, anecdotal evidence from a single immigrant community.
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True. My quebec-based programmer friends receive 20 jobs offers every week.
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The reasons why so many overeducated people cannot find jobs in Quebec in particular are too rigid language requirements (in particular the requirement for the immigrant children to attend French-language schools), “Quebec for Francophone Quebecois” attitude in too many locals (it is getting better, but still is over certain critical threshold), measures aimed at preventing intermixing of people between Quebec and other provinces (again, in order to preserve the chance for the Francophone nation-state) and too socialist organization and over-bureaucratization of many spheres of life. Too much protection for (local) people doing lousy jobs, not enough meritocracy…
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That’s true. This is a big problem for Quebec.
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“Ukraine is a hub of IT innovation today. Our programmers are, indeed, among the best in the world.”
Why is it that Ukraine with it’s terrible education system (according to you) is an IT leader and Canada with it’s great education system can’t produce enough programmers to meet demand?
Something is out of whack.
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Programmers don’t need degrees. It’s one of those rare skills that people develop on their own. That’s why programming boot camps that last a couple of weeks are booming while programming at a college level is floundering.
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“Programmers don’t need degrees.”
Very true. It’s one of the few professions now where qualifications are based on skills and proven performance and not credentials.
Will Ukrainian programmers be paid Canadian style wages (very good for the Ukrainian economy), good for Ukraine wages or will they be simply encouraged to pack up and head to Canada (terrible for Ukraine)?
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Yes, many of these employers are trying to bring them over. Whether they come or stay depends on whether Ukraine can find something for them to stay for.
But actually, the exodus of these young IT guys is seen as very positive in Ukraine because the vision of the country’s place in the world that is now popular is the opposite of insularity. Any insularity means that Russians come.
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To be fair – are those Ukrainian programmers getting western salaries for their services? Suppose these Ukrainian programmers move to Canada as a part of the program we are discussing – will the Canadian/ international companies be willing to pay them Canadian salaries? If not, then the relationship between this example and Canada’s idea to import more educated people is more complicated…
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Programmers who work with Canadian employers have been getting Canadian salaries since at least the 1990s. And not only programmers but anybody working in software development. My father was recruited when he was back in Ukraine by a US company in the late 1990s. Then he moved to Canada and continued working with them. His salary throughout came to $5,000 USD a month.
I also worked for Western companies from Kharkiv back in 1995-8. I’d get between $2,000 and $4,000 USD a month. Which is a lot more than I started making once I moved to Canada.
In the meanwhile, a regular salary in Ukraine back then was $50 a month. Today it’s much higher for those who work. At least 10 times higher for sure. So the gap is a lot smaller between Western and Ukrainian salaries. Of course, the prices have jumped, too. My apartment in Ukraine cost $12,000. Today it’s 10 times that. In USD, of course.
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My own first husband (a Ukrainian programmer) was making $120,000 CAD per year within a couple of years of moving to Quebec with zero French and almost non-existent English. Back in Ukraine, he was making $100 a month but not because anybody exploited him but because he refused to look for any job but the one as a secretary that his mother found for him.
It just goes to show how completely non-materialistic I am if I was with him while he made $100 a month and left him after he started making the huge Canadian salary. :-))))))))))))))))
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“Merkel’s approach is different. She is trying to reduce inequality by bringing in immigrants based on their need”
I don’t think that’s her plan at all. My current hypothesis is that she’s simply corrupt and taking money from both Putin and Soros who both want to wreck the EU (for different reasons).
No one can look at the results and seriously claim there was anything remotely humanitarian in her actions (unless she is insane).
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