to be fair most Canadians were promised this as part of their countries stratospheric growth under neoliberalist policies. that they are not capable of it is no fault of their own. that they want this is at all is not a bane.
> Where US got the best talent from India, Canada got the worst, the ones who scam their way here and take the lowest level jobs.
dividing immigrants into "good ones" and "bad ones" is pretty vile, but as an american i must acquiesce we've played that game for a long time. before hispanics it was asians, before asians it was europeans (the irish particularly.) turns out blaming immigration is a fools errand to distract from domestic class warfare.
the real question for Canada now is not "how do we punish the immigrant" but what do elected leaders in the political class do to affect meaningful restitution and corrective action in the face of what is a national crisis. Either they see clearly and will reform their own cash cow, or they will blindly ride it off a cliff in the hopes that through their own profit they can weather the coming storm.
Isn't that the case everywhere where immigration is restricted?
TBF that's the inherent insinuation in points / skill based immigration. The goal of immigration driven growth to is to maximize return potential via brain drain and wealth drain from other countries who foot the bill for talent development, or to extract wealth via foreign elites who accumulated wealth in host countries. When crisis reach critcal levels when it obviously becomes a class warfare issue, the solution is going to be punish the immigrants, before them become PRs or citizens. It's not the immigrants fault for policy failures, but until they get right to vote they are escape goats for bad politics.
our post-hart-cellar immigration policy is a tool of class warfare via wage suppression. real wages have remained flat while productivity gains have steadily persisted, due to several systemic changes since the crisis of 1973, among them flinging the doors open to dilute the cost of american labor; this and outsourcing and globalizing supply chains also go hand-in-hand with breaking union power
In India when we graduated our professors would say - you are really good, you should go to the usa. you are quite mediocre, go try your luck in canada. and you, you are a C student, even canada won't take you in. go get married to some indian lady, get a nice fat dowry, raise two kids and send them to college here, maybe they will get better grades than you.
It was perhaps said in jest, but like everything else, there was an element of truth to it. For quite a while, the word canada itself became a pejorative. Many south indian films have a scene where the hero returns after studying abroad & wants to get married, & the heroine's father generally wants to make sure he is a good student & not a scamster from canada.
That sounds hilarious, do you have some example films that I can check out?
This is just an entirely incorrect reading of what the grandparent comment said.
They are not saying that immigrants from some places are good, and immigrants from some other places are bad (or immigrants of one ethnicity vs. another). Regardless of whether you agree with them or not (which is a very valid thing to disagree with, if that’s how you feel), they explicitly said that the US gets “good” immigrants from those groups, while Canada gets more “mediocre” immigrants from those exact same groups.
There is no classification or separation by nationality/ethnicity going on in the grandparent comment, despite you treating it like there is.