Comments by "alex smith" (@alexsmith-ob3lu) on "Canada’s Secret Weapon: America’s Broken Immigration System" video.

  1. From my experience, majority of newcomers to Canada and immigrants who came to Canada 30, 20 or 15 years ago are mostly leaving Canada for the USA or somewhere else. Canadian dollar is weak, jobs are scarce, the Canadian economy is tanking, housing is insanely expensive, and the cost of living is ridiculous. Most immigrants to Canada simply use Canada as a gateway to get into the America in a much faster and easier way. That’s really it. If not, America, then they’ll use Canada to get into Australia or Nee Zealand.
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  2. Even if we were to drop zoning codes, the government has big taxes on new housing construction. As we speak, new housing construction is already slowing down because nobody can afford anything.
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  3. Good luck building more housing outside the green belts of the GTA. If there are no adequate schools, hospitals, employment, public transit, cheap gasoline etc. nobody is gonna settle in those areas for the long term.
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  4. It’s easier to add on more zoning codes than it is to dissect existing zoning codes. Even then, cost of housing is not going down because everyone knows the land is too valuable in Toronto with all these high rise condos going up everywhere.
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  5. It’s unhinged for Canada to be taking in that many immigrants, international students and temporary foreign workers when there is nothing here. Our biggest employers are minimum wage restaurants, universities, and IT consulting in big cities. Aside from that, there isn’t anything else and majority go to the US for work.
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