politics

it is

again, 2.5% of our pop in international students

was the figure I was seeing

and 90% of those from india

we're 10x bigger by population, and probably 20x by number of colleges

Yep

It is actually insane here

dude

I was close

it's actually ~20x

there is a reason why Gent does not get when I talk about Indians and Chinese being more of a problem here than black people that I am not lying for effect

it is actually really bad here

3,900 vs 230

Also spooky, consider this

90% of our schools are within 20km of the US border

so not only way less, way more condensed

so Ontario in particular is absolutely flooded with international students

I feel like Canada's demographic problems are going to become a big issue

which is also part of why housing right now is like 2-4k in rent a month

and there are no houses for sale since they are being bought to rent out by companies

yep, that's the problem everywhere

it's imo pretty easy to fix

You guys are just catching up to us though

but it's a direct impact to boomers (taxing rental income) so it's inconcievable

until more die off

The millenium project by the current government is the big issue

they want 100 million pop by 2100

and they do not intend to do that through increasing birth rates

that's not feasible

at all

no, but that is the current goal

even with just unchecked immigration

we are at less than half that right now

I think that would unirronically make Canada the fastest growing country in the world

3x in 80 years

actually, 80 years is long enough

The real kicker for Canadian immigration from india is, Canada does not recognize many high skill degrees from outside of Canada (mainly medical stuff), so a lot of higher skilled people cannot come here and do the job they were doing elsewhere

that it doesn't break all these graphs

so it is almost entirely low quility immigration

we used to have a very good point based system, but I think after Harper that was scrapped

There's no reason to really need immigrants rn

I genuinely think the best citizenship/patriation system, is direct purchase

I think there is always a benifit to stealing high skill (PhDs, etc) people

if you want to go live in a county, just buy your citizenship

but beyond that, I think a direct purchase system is better

targeted stealing is good too

but usually it just ends up being money flowing through high skilled individuals, back out of the country with some exceptions, for non-1st world imports

I am really interested to see how Canada's next election goes

in the last 2-3 years, it has gotten really, really bad for cost of living, which is usually when interesting things can happen

2028, can we have Ted Cruz elected as president of the US and Canada

is it disallowed by either?

he's a dual-cit by birth iirc

I feel like the courts will rule he can't

it is codified that you cannot be prime minister if you are already elected to a province

in the spirit of that, I think the court will just read that in as "you cannot hold another political office"

you can't be senator and president

but you can be gov + pres

which is very in-line with feudal lords and whatnot

I bet we'd allow Canadian premiership

Honestly, other than the fact that I think the court will argue he can't I do not see explicit things saying he can't

Dual citizens can be PM though

So at the minimum he could run in Canada, which would be funny

that should be his plan now that he lost to Trump

Idk why he didn't try to run again tbh

No one really loves him, but he appeals to neocons and maga folks to some degree

More than Santos that's for sure

I like that he fled his state during the winter storm, that was based

that was him right

Yeah

He's also got the most God awful beard rn

lmao

if your beard hair is grey in the middle only, just cut it

Ok, this is my favorite one

It's just such a terrible look

Yeah

The Jacksonville Dollar General shooter's full manifesto is funny