Comments by "firstandforemost87" (@firstandforemost87) on "Growing number of immigrants are deciding to leave Canada. Why?" video.

We don’t need to bring in skilled trades. We don’t need to bring in anybody. We have plenty of ppl here who could be trained to do these jobs, and I suspect it would be cheaper to subsidize the costs of training and educating domestically than it is to absorb hundreds of thousands if newcomers a year. A young friend just got into welding and, after finding out how much he was making, his PHD neuroscience proff of a roommate started asking him about getting into the trade lol.
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I work for a huge secondary industry outfit. My site is in a small sleepy rural town. About half the staff are foreign. There are no housing vacancies. There is a small college town nearby where many if the staff live, and students had to delay schooling because there was nowhere for them to live. We’re importing more labour to staff the Tim Hortons tho…
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Skilled? The only ppl I know who leave are remote worker types who sit in front of screens for a living and can’t even change their own oil. The exceptions are nurses and roughnecks going to the states.
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@grumpynomad3551 Right now we pander to the asset class and obsess over nominal growth because that is their lifeblood. Nominal demand side Growth benefits a small minority while harming the majority of wage earning workers. Fixing their ‘labour shortages’ by importing competition for the plebs is a perfect example. Ppl can’t find a place to rent, let alone buy, but we’ll be sure to import more ppl so that Timmy Hos can stay open 24/7, and that Dairy Queen that nobody asked for can be built and staffed.
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@4799balaji Lol. Dude, your first sentence doesn’t even mean anything. Nobody wants gov involved in housing more than necessary. They do, however, want and need gov responsibly protecting the border and controlling immigration. That is all there is to it.
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@jaipaulsethi6880 They love the word ‘sustainability’ tho. Its their favourite. They seem to think sustainability means fleecing citizens so that you can reward your buddies w lucrative contracts and cheap labour.
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@omarjohnson1027 Sure. Like I haven’t worked w immigrants. Some work. Some don’t. Same as anybody else. One recently murdered a kid coworker in a nearby town though. Thats different.
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@pectusin Your reading comprehension skills make me laugh. It isn’t about assessing ppl by their ability to change oil. It was about pointing out limitations to the a OPs statement about skilled ppl leaving and parasites remaining. This made me laugh. Sorry man, if you are good at writing software, it clearly doesn’t mean your reading comprehension skills are any good.
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@pectusin Nice, we’re besties now.
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@prestonmatthews725 Traditional post secondary is outdated. Instead of subsidizing private institutions through inflationary policy, we should probably innovate in education. Unfortunately, however, this means contending w Big Education’s lobby. Very powerful. They have a lot of resources to keep everybody convinced that paying to sit in a desk and listen to somebody blab for hours is the best way to learn.
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@KUYA-NATO_OFW The growth you are referring to is nominal demand side growth. This is high school level econ. Draw a simple two variable supply and demand graph/model. W wages for the sorts of spots we are importing for already bottomed out at min wage, we can’t really assume any positive supply side shifts unless we get pretty abstract and inter-temporal. However, more ppl means more demand, so positively shift that demand curve. Tell me how the new equilibrium looks. If you want to get more nuanced, take a look at something called the Cobb Douglas production function, which will illustrate one way to think if the interplay between different factors of production, chiefly labour and capital. If you go this far, take note of what happens to your precious nominal growth when you just throw more labour at the problem, and then consider that the declining returns you are witnessing are occurring alongside the inflationary pressures identified earlier w the simple SD model. Stop taking econ lessons from corporate media and crack a book.
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@JB-yb4wn Looking like Japan at some point appears inevitable.
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@4799balaji Government isn’t supposed to control housing supply. This isn’t the Soviet Union. As for “Blaming immigrants”, it is merely a numbers game. Very basic economics. We’re talking high school supply and demand curves level of basic…
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@4799balaji As for economics, lets have a discussion about that. Give me a technical break down of your position.
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@rvhtravels Pretty views?
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