To be fair. Canada is stringent about Americans coming over the border and teaching anything, even in a non-professional capacity, without a work visa.
Having traveled worldwide, it easily ranks up there with the most unfriendly customs officers.
Maybe that's why Canadians are so nice? All their assholes are employed for border security?
1- He is a member of the https://centuryinitiative.ca , a group that want to see Canada having a population of 100 millions in 2100. And the only way it's possible is by having unsustainable immigration.
2- https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2024/statc... the latest drop in the previous graph is a consequence of that artificial population growth.
3- https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/temporary-visas-cut-meeting... as if this would help with the housing crisis or the shrinking GDP per capita
Shouldn’t have to be. If you raise TFR to 5 it should be completely feasible.
It's fair to gripe about the effects of immigration, and policies to handle those, but it's disingenuous to gripe about immigration as a policy in a <2+ country.
Demographics is a zero sum game. Either you have a growing population and smooth age brackets or Very Bad Things happen.
[0] https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/CAN/can...
You seem to be under the impression that hordes of Americans are gathered at the 49th parallel slavering to rush into Canada, and that only Canadian border patrol is preventing Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver from being overrun by Americans. Quite the opposite.
I explained that my father was at a conference, and that I was there to both help and be a tourist.
Did not parse with Mr. Papers Please. "Which one is it?" in increasingly aggressive tones.
Finally I just picked one, he gave me my stamp, and I went through.