Record Spike in Immigrants Leaving Canada
What These Trends Say about the State of the Dominion's Economy
Canada’s immigration system is broken, but more than that, the economy is broken.
The Federal Government of the Dominion of Canada have announced that the current immigration system is under review. While the Trudeau Liberals have been known for their eager immigration policies, enthusiasm seems to be drying up amongst hopefuls in calling Canada their new home. An interesting demographic trend being discussed here is a record spike in immigrants choosing to leave Canada between 2016-191.
The main reasons for leaving are economic with unaffordability driven by inflation coupled with the housing crisis and a shortage in doctors, all falling short on Canada’s promise of a “better life.” These realities rapidly deplete their savings, much of which is already spent in the process of immigrating, even before stepping foot in the North. There have always been detrimental factors around immigrating to Canada such cold shock, culture shock, and homesickness. In the past, it was the more bountiful economic opportunities that often provided a counterbalance to these challenges, but this is no longer the case. The outstanding negatives are now are outweighing the dwindling positives for newcomers to try and stick it out. The Dominion has essentially lured good people here based on misinformation on the current economic situation, draining their savings and labor power, using false advertisements of a “better life” and the “Canadian Dream.”
Earlier this year Canada hit the population benchmark of 40 million2. This modest increase is reliant upon on immigration to support Canada’s aging population, as natural birth rates of Canadian citizens are currently not sufficient to replenish the labor force. However, these days increasingly immigrants are seeing the current sate of Canada for what it is: a broken country. And this speaks to much larger trend, before even addressing the immigration system, we must ask why the natural birth rates of citizens are so low? Surely this must point to something deeper about the current societal situation in Canada?
Chronic structural issues such as underfunded healthcare and the housing crisis3 greatly have diminished the will of young citizens to settle down and create families. While many immigrants may come as a couple already, even if they are able to keep accrue necessary pay to stay, their own children growing up here as first generation Canadian citizens will too face the same above issues, and so the cycle repeats. Canada just simply is not a place for raising young families for most people in its current state. Some of the more basic “Cultural Conservatives” who use a reductive lens will speak ill of the morality of younger generations, but all of these issues are downstream of the economics. The diminished incentives for starting families is rooted in the lack of a solid economic foundation to do so. This economic base is of the utmost concern to any Republican for the future of families in the North.
Seeing the boomerang effect from new immigrants can help illuminate with greater clarity on the issues here that many citizens can incrementally come to accept as the norm, depressingly ground down in a Capitalist system which is all they know, yet still clinging to the promise of the “Canadian Dream.” We must reflect on how it seems this system needs us to be somewhat asleep with the glean of idealism to not realize the incremental dysfunction that is immediately noticeable to many newcomers. While being optimistic is needed for construction, being idealistic past the point of reason can lead to delusion, this is not a knock to us living here, course we want things to get better here, we are simply laying out the tasks ahead to truly build a better life for everyone. We must have an honest view of the situation where we are living in order to improve which will take real work. What the Trudeau Liberals are doing is desperately kicking the can down the road attempting to integrate fresh faces without solving the core issues that inhibit growing a family and reviving community here. Out of respect for those here and those to come, we must get the house in order before hosting a party!
The Federal Government under the Trudeau Liberals have essentially been abusing the immigration system, treating it like continual blood infusions into an ailing corpus, biding the Dominion’s time with each new wave of immigration, all while the children of newcomers will still face the same problems as the current children of Canadian citizens. As Anglo-American Imperialism is on its downward spiral, the Dominion’s economy follows suit. It does not have to be that way for the good people living here in the North. We must break from the parasitic system of Global Finance, the Trans-Atlantic Axis of Wall Street and the City of London with its Northern Outpost on Bay Street. We instead must revive these lands with healthy and holistic economic system rooted in the principles of Continentalism, in the vision of the Honorable Louis Riel, something worth being a citizen for all of those here now and those to come — both in birth and in immigration — as a citizen of the New Republic.
Onwards to a Northern Continentalism!
It should be noted these trends were taking shape before the COVID-19 Pandemic, so these issues have only become more accentuated in the years since.
Still a very sparsely populated country relative to the land mass.
Where are you going to raise your kids if there’s not room for them to run around?