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It's quite an outlier for having 500k immigrants per year, with a population of 39m. That's 1.25% per year. In 20 years, less than a generation, 25% of the population is entirely new. There's already a housing crisis and they're set to add 10 million people in 20 years? Build the housing first, otherwise you're just playing musical chairs and jettisoning people onto the street.

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Canada is taking in around 2 million immigrants per year. They're taking in over 900,000 students per year alone. [1]

[1] https://www.cbc.ca/lite/story/1.6948733

Updated numbers. Canada is on track to accept one million permanent residests in a year, PLUS 800,000 international students who tend to arrive and stay for years thus also need housing.

Canada passed 40 million population this year and will hit 41 in a few months.

Let's use 500,000 per year as a basis.

A large percentage of immigrants are becoming pregnant the year they immigrate. Let's assume there is no interaction with the native population. For the example's sake, let's assume 500k is evenly split men and women. let's assume 40% of the immigrants have a child in the first year.

Total immigrants divided by gender times 40% percent having a child in the first year: 500k / 2 * 0.4 = 100k

That means a theoretical 500k immigration rate is actually 600k after one year.

And, in fact, for the hypothetical sake assume the same thing happens in year two as the original women have a second child in year 2 and now the original population has become 700,000.

It’s a shell game. A less informed population won’t notice that the political dynasties continue to live luxurious pompous lives off everyone’s backs, and the informed will be too busy in an unfair competition over scraps. Unless there is a huge surplus of housing, college space, and well paying jobs…your leadership is selling you out in a gambit to take in people who will gladly keep voting for them in return for 10% of the typical Canadian lifestyle. You need new leaders who put citizens first, not last.

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