Brampton's recorder

The gaslighting is just exhausting. Why is moderation such a difficult ask in the immigration debate? Why must we be sandwiched by the deluded on one side and the racist on the other? Seriously @acoyne, are you asking people to believe math no longer works? A 380K PR cap without one-time measures is a very different net population growth rate, because existing TRs would have been included within that envelope. The PR cap is now effectively 200K larger for net immigration. It’s a big increase regardless of where you put it on the ledger. Why lie with technicalities? FWIW, I think there is a reasonable case for a one-time, multi-year TR-to-PR program to correct the system long-term while being empathetic to TRs here. But proponents should make the case for it, and the Feds should be transparent. The trade-off should be a lower net population growth rate through the duration of the program. 80% of people would find this compromise reasonable. In fact, it’s the one Canadians were expecting. You cannot do one-time programs multiple times without breaking trust. Nor are we setting good precedent for future TR holders, who do not need to believe that we will enforce our rules. Alternatively, if proponents and the Feds think we should have a higher population growth rate, make the case for why we’re prepared this time. (We are not prepared) Those who envision a much more populous country should advocate changes to our growth systems so it doesn’t lower quality of life by increasing housing scarcity or by reducing capacity in our transportation and social systems. A country of 100M (or even 60M) is incompatible with our land use, infrastructure, and housing systems today without constraining most people to lower living standards. That’s the reality. The pressures of the last boom did not result in sufficient reform either. I cannot believe how irresponsible so many are being by trying to wish these problems away, even though we CAN ACTUALLY FIX THEM to enable faster growth. But it’s not easy! It’s amazing how much $ is out there to lobby for higher immigration but there’s barely a drop to drink for groups advocating housing abundance, or for groups trying to make it easier for young Canadians to start families and have more kids. It just shows how little they actually care about making the country better for the people who live here. My warning to those who believe in immigration as a moral good (and not a means to an end) is that your inability to show moderation or accept reasonable concerns on this issue is likely to result in future failures that risk ending the already weakened immigration consensus in this country. They are already obvious. Absent meaningful changes, affordability and housing pressures will resurge by 2030. Canada has avoided the nationalist/anti-immigration politics of elsewhere until now. I fear it’s basically inevitable with this callous approach, and it will be, frankly, the fault of people who should have known better.

Blown away by this “CafeMilan” setup. Whatever we’re doing with CafeTO we should consider doing it differently.