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I agree with you.

Really appreciate the summary! As a Canadian these things feel very obvious but since most of this site is from the US this should help the conversation a lot.

Take that problem in the states an multiply it by 3x in Canada.

Lower Income, High Prices, Less Options.

I'm in a similar position that I'm personally doing okay but almost everyone I grew up with has had to either leave Canada for the US, had to live with their parents into their 30s or more to very remote / rural areas to afford life.

Seems odd though that despite these issues being provincial that every province is seemingly struggling with these issues...

Almost like there is a larger macroeconomic force at play.

The approval rating seems like an unhelpful metric here if the actual resulting election is such a landslide.

Also I think there is a bit of a different here between Harpers Conservatives and Tredeaus Liberals.

In 2015 people were actually really excited and hopeful about Justin Trudeau (sounds weird to say but it is true). He was voted in "positively" based on legalizing cannabis & election reform.

2025 is a very different spot, Pollieve is not a particularly popular politician. The singular reason they will win in a land slide is that people HATE Trudeau in a way I haven't seen in my life.

The liberals really should take a long hard look at themselves and re-evaluate. On a more local level the Ontario Liberals actually just collapsed a while ago and haven't even been relevant in politics ever since.

This isn't just the normal trend.

The issues were self created by skyrocketing the immigration rates / TFWs.

All they had to do was .... nothing, just keep the system as it was.

With that it seems like there has been a lot of heavy lobbying by companies built on low wage employment to deflate wages across the country. And it worked!

I feel like its sentiment like this why the liberal party is heading for a historic collapse.

"Everything is fine, just cancel disney+"

Like young people are struggling... really badly and it seems like the government has done everything they can to make it worse.

Most people I've met really don't Like Pierre Pollieve (myself included) but to say the current governments ineptness is propaganda is actually insane.

There is absolutely no way he will be looked at as one of the better Canadian PMs..

By all accounts he will be looked at as one of the worst considering the position Canada was in at the start and end of his government.

Inflation, unemployment, housing, homelessness, healthcare, crime, national unity, the overall economy. .. Just all of these things are significantly worse than 2015.

With that being said I do think cannabis + child care were both wins... but like at what cost.

Also feels like with cannabis all of society was already trending there seemed like a very easy win.

Then with childcare it is a win but it is also complicated as many daycares have unenrolled from the program because it doesn't cover enough of the cost.

I have to ask based on this. Do you live in Canada?

Canada / India tensions is definitely a pretty core driver of the immigration sentiment in Canada.

Unfortunately in many ways Indian TFW have been linked to a large number of national crime stories in the past ~5 years that have caused a lot of anger in Canada.

* State sponsored assassination

* Gang bombing / shootings related to showing of Indian movies

* International student slaying entire family at their home

* Stolen car driving wrong way down highway killing entire family

* Country wide car theft ring

* Trafficking of narcotics across CAN-USA border

* Mass immigration / employment fraud

* Violent clashes outside of Mosques

These were literally off the top of my head and every story is specifically linked to Indian TFWs. Having grown up in Canada these types of stories were not common growing up and definitely weren't so specifically concentrated.

If anyone has wondered this Canada in the past 10 years should be a fantastic case study. It seems almost embarrassingly clear from the data that these 2 factors have a strong correlation / causation.

I don't think 10x your immigrant population in 2 years is demographically the same as a natural population growth over 10 years.

They result in 2 very different distributions. One having a very large segment of the population in one specific age category. Which also puts a lot of pressure on systems / infrastructure that is relevant to that category.

Fair enough! I must say you would be very surprised how much Canada has changed in the last 8 - 10 years. Its pretty astonishing

Again I think you might need to educate yourself on Canadian history.

The French that founded Quebec where here predated the English that eventually founded the county of Upper / Lower Canada... You might have a misunderstanding of what the term immigrant means.

This is accurate.

Source: Canadian working in FAANG in Canada

I think that isn't that hard to understand.

The USA has pretty much the worst healthcare in the world. Much ahead of it but in 2nd last is Canada.

Did you say you can't spot a homeless person in Canada???

This literally can't be true every single large city in Canada is struggling with increasing homelessness right now.

Do you live in a cabin up in Muskoka??

Hard to say Quebec is an enclave.... It is quite literally the founding half of the country.

Like you just have to look at the distribution of immigration across different countries in the past 10 years to see that this isn't correct.

It was not the norm that 60% of all immigration was from a single country...

Additionally immigration has objectively increased at a time of large unemployment which used to not be allowed until the current government lifted the restriction on 6% unemployment.

You can have a mixture of opinions but we gotta stick to the facts first

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For context for non Canadians, youth unemployment is at a decades high while we continue to increase immigration specifically for low income jobs.

If that is the case why is Canadas population expanding almost faster than ever recorded???

You would think to combat birthdates you would increase immigration to an appropriate level not 10x it in 5 years.

Secondly immigration has a complicated affect on demographics since the people coming are generally 21 or older which is very clearly different than a birth which starts at 0 years old

Norway is also less than half the size of Texas with even that population heavily concentrated in the south near the ports.

North America is .... Big. Like really big. So discussions around vehicle range might be dramatically differently depending on location.

Not saying you are wrong though just something to consider

I think I major issue with LLM based tech to users is that there really isn't a way of declaring what the tech can concretely do.

The camera app? Takes picture, can do night mode photography, boomerang, burst, etc.

The AI magic image / LLM app?? Idk just try stuff as a user until you can somewhat find the bounds of it.

This is a similar issue to what lead to great hype and then fall behind voice assistants but to an even greater extent.

For context, I'm not American and I would have trouble understanding how this could be conceived as antisemitic??

Also mentioned in another comment I do believe Isreal has a right to defend itself but not to commit war crimes against civilians... that seems to be the issue here.

Well again in the analogy the issue seems not to be Isreal defending itself (i do believe they have the right to do so as should any country).

The issues seems to be retaliation against a civilian population.

Really attacking civilians seems to be the major war crimes on both sides of this conflict

Am I the only one who thinks it's completely justified for leaders of both sides to be wanted for war crimes??

If someone assaults me and I retaliate by injuring their family members then both the assilant and me are both guilty for criminal assault.

Maybe not a perfect analogy but that's what it seems has happened here...

Had no idea about this! Thanks!

Commenting to save this for myself.

Of the many many hours I've spent on this website, this comment probably made me feel more relaxed than anything else.

Please continue your kind and helpful words on the internet:)

Note here, in the current years, grades / competition has exploded so for the more competitive programs it is nearly impossible to get in without high 90s in all the required courses (English is required for all programs).

So responding to OP, you indeed must be an expert in all subjects to have a chance to study in your field of expertise.

We have age minimums for just about everything it doesn't seem crazy to have age maximum for things for mainly the same reasons.

Isn't the minimum age for presidential candidates 35? That actually seems weirder to me than an age maximum of 80.

Canada in particular has a very strange housing affordability issue... artificial growth!

Our population is currently increasing by over 1 million people each year and it is 98% immigration.

I think an odd effect of very very high immigration is that everyone who arrives is presumably of working age and needs to be housed outside of a family unit. This puts immense pressure on a housing supply that is already decades behind where it should be and as a result prices are exploding.

Canada as a country has a population of about ~40 million people. The main country we are getting our immigration from is India with a population of nearly 2 billion. There is no possible world in which Canada can construct enough housing for the nearly infinite supply of people that it seems to be importing

A recent study showed it currently takes on average 10 years to go from acquiring a piece of land to building an apartment. This is clearly problematic but there is a physical limitation on how fast housing can be constructed.